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  Restore Independence of the Election Commission: An Appeal to the President of India —Citizens for Democracy

  26 July 2025

  Citizens for Democracy
  F-1/A Shalimar Garden, Sahibabad
  Uttar Pradesh
  The following is an appeal made by the Citizens for Democracy to the President of India to restore the independence of the Election Commission of India.
  A public appeal to the Hon

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  CPI(M) Statement on Bombay High Court’s Observations regarding challenge to Mumbai Police’s refusal to allow a protest against the ongoing genocide in Gaza

  26 July 2025

  Communist Party of India (Marxist)
  [July 25, 2025]
  Condemn Bombay High Court’s Anti-Constitutional Observations
  The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the observations of the Bombay High Court bench while rejecting an application by the Party to challenge the Mumbai Police’s refusal to allow a protest action against the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.
  While doing so, the court went to the extent of calling into question the patriotism of the Party. Ironically, the bench (…)

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  CPI Expresses Sorrow at the Passing of Eminent Journalist Sumit Chakravartty

  26 July 2025

  Communist Party of India
  New Delhi,
  July 27, 2025
  Press Release
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (July 27, 2025) the following statement:
  The Communist Party of India expresses its deep sorrow at the passing of eminent journalist and steadfast progressive voice, Comrade Sumit Chakravartty, in Kolkata.
  Sumit Chakravartty was a distinguished journalist and a committed intellectual who upheld the highest values of truth, justice and secularism (…)

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  The Editors Guild of India condoles the death of its former general secretary and Mainstream weekly editor, Mr Sumit Chakravartty

  26 July 2025

  The Editors Guild of India
  Press Statement
  July 28, 2025
  The Editors Guild of India condoles the death of its former general secretary and Mainstream weekly editor, Mr Sumit Chakravartty.
  Mr Chakravartty passed away in Kolkata on Saturday after battling a long illness.
  Mr Chakravartty was the general secretary of the Editors Guild of India between 1999 and 2001. He had also held other positions in the Guild.
  Mr Chakravartty

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  Review of Budjeryn’s ’Inheriting the Bomb’ | Wesley Fite

  26 July 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine
  by Mariana Budjeryn
  Johns Hopkins University Press
  2022. 328 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-1-4214-4586-1.
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  Reviewed by Wesley Fite
  With the hindsight of the 2014 and 2022 invasions of Ukraine, some armchair strategists have questioned Ukraine

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  Caricature: Tribute to V.S. Achutanandan | Jayaraj Vellur

  26 July 2025

  V.S. Achutananda was among the co-founders of India’s Communist Party of India (Marxist), who went on to serve as the Chief Minister of Kerala (2006

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  Yashpal: A Life in Science, documentary film by Yousuf Saeed

  26 July 2025
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  Audio: Russia

  26 July 2025
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  Music: Send in the Drums | James Asher

  26 July 2025

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  Send in the Drums by James Asher - Topic https://youtu.be/_a1LcQMqgPY?si=rpc57A8itxjWMFRu

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 29, July 19, 2025

  19 July 2025

  * Does Bihar Show the Way? | Arup Kumar Sen
  * Socialism and Secularism Are the Soul of the Constitution | Sabzar Ahmad Bhat
  * Mahmood Mamdani on the expulsion of Uganda