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• The Rise of Domestic Violence and Relevance of ‘Ecofeminism’ in the Post Covid-19 World | Badre Alam Khan

  13 June 2020

  by Badre Alam Khan
  Since the announcement of stringent national lockdown across the world in general and India in particular, amidst Covid-19, gender-based violence (in the forms of sexual harassment, physical, sexual, mental and emotional sufferings) has now been increased significantly in the domestic sphere. In this respect, the WHO (World Health Organization), UN (United Nations) General Secretary and several Human Rights and women’s organizations have expressed their deep concern and (…)

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  Video: What is McCarthyism? And how did it happen? - Ellen Schrecker | 5 mins 42 sec

  11 June 2020

  In the 1950s, as part of a campaign to expose suspected Communists, thousands of individuals were aggressively investigated and questioned before government panels. Named after its most notorious practitioner, the phenomenon known as McCarthyism destroyed lives and careers. But how did this episode of political repression take off? Ellen Schrecker traces the history of McCarthyism. Lesson by Ellen Schrecker, animation by Patrick Smith.

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  Video: Bertrand Russell - Press Conference on Nuclear Weapons - London, 9 July 1955

  10 June 2020

  Sir Bertrand Russell reading Russell-Einstein Manifesto and answering questions of the press.

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  Video: Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent

  9 June 2020

  Summary of Chomsky’s analyses on how the corporate media functions. Excerpt from the documentary "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media" (1992)

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  Young Mayakovsky’s Letter to his Sister in 1905

  9 June 2020, by Harsh Kapoor

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (7 July 1893 – 14 April 1930) was a Soviet poet, playwright, artist, and actor, he also edited the art journal LEF, and created posters in support of the Communist Party. Mayakovsky often found himself in a confrontation with the Soviet State over cultural censorship and the development of the State doctrine of Socialist realism. Works that contained criticism or satire of aspects of the Soviet system, such as the poem "Talking With the Taxman About Poetry" (1926), and (…)

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  Table of Contents - Lockdown Edition no.11 | June 6, 2020

  6 June 2020

  LETTER TO THE READERS - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.11 - 6 June | The Editor Mainstream Tiananmen Square Massacre of 4 June 1989: The Chinese Communist Party Crushed the Dreams of A Citizens Movement for Democratisation - A documentary Film Remembering Tiananmen - A poem by Vikram Seth Pandemic and the Reverse Migration of Labour in India | Sunanda Sen NCoV19 and Selling India Inc. Model of Self-Reliance with Local Rhetoric | D M Diwakar A Sceptre is Haunting the World | Kobad Ghandy (…)

• LETTER TO THE READERS - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.11 - 6 June

  6 June 2020

  Letter to Readers - Mainstream, June 6 2020
  It is disturbing to see the Delhi police on a wild goose chase against all sections of people who are being picked up for having had a connection with the Anti-CAA protests. Incidentally, the President of the National Federation of Indian Woman Aruna Roy in her message on the 67th founding anniversary of NFIW on June 4th has highlighted the present government’s attack on freedom of expression and called for a sustained campaign against the (…)

• Video: Tiananmen Square Massacre of 4 June 1989: The Chinese Communist Party Crushed the Dreams of A Citizens Movement for Democratisation

  6 June 2020

  Tremble and Obey a documentary film by the Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). It includes interviews with many of the key participants of the protest movement who were subsequently placed on China’s ‘most wanted’ list.

• Remembering Tiananmen - A poem by Vikram Seth

  6 June 2020

  Remembering Tiananmen
  No miracle will ever clean
  The memory, bestial and obscene,
  Of those who, having fouled their trust,
  Grew warped with dread and powerlust—
  And ordered fire on the square,
  On unarmed people everywhere,
  Brave people seeking to be free
  Of rottenness, of tyranny.
  — Vikram Seth
  [This poem was published in The Times of India on June 6, 1989. It is being reproduced—courtesy The Times of India—in memory of the Tiananmen martyrs.]