Mainstream WeeklyAdopted at “Campaign for scientific temper culmination program and National convention for declaration on scientific temper” held on 28th Feb 2024 at Kolkata
Statement on Scientific Temper in the Current Context
Executive Summary There is an urgent need for a renewed commitment to evidence-based reasoning, critical thinking and a scientific approach in India, especially amidst growing socio-political movements that challenge a scientific temper and universal knowledge production based on (…)
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Statement on Scientific Temper Feb. 28, 2024 at Kolkata
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Feminist Dissent Statement on Genocide in Gaza - April 2024
20 April 2024Sunday April 7, 2024 marked exactly six months since Israel unleashed its brutal war on the Palestinian people in Gaza, a war that shows no sign of stopping any time soon.
We at Feminist Dissent can barely find the words to describe the pain and the rage we feel at the cruelty and injustice that has unfolded since 7 October 2023. On that day, Hamas and its associates assaulted, tortured and murdered many Israeli civilians and foreign nationals, including women and children – 1200 people (…) -
Review of Vijayan’s India vs. RSS – a book against majoritarian agenda | Joydip Ghosal
20 April 2024[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
In the book India vs RSS by Pinarayi Vijayan asserts that the battle for democratic and secular India against totalitarian RSS is winnable. CPI (M) leader Pinarayi Vijayan is the chief minister of Kerala. He served as Minister of Electric Power and Cooperatives from 1996 to 1998. He was born in Kannur which was the “ground zero of RSS terror.”
The majoritarian ideology is steeped in hatred and parochialism. Vijayan in this book shows that (…) -
Teresa Huhle. Review of Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II by Rebecca Herman
20 April 2024[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America
by Rebecca Herman
Oxford University Press
2022. 320 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-753187-7
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During World War II, the United States Army deployed aircrafts and troops in sixteen Latin American countries, utilizing existing defense sites, but more importantly, constructing numerous new bases. Focusing on Brazil, (…) -
Map of Lutyens’ projected Imperial Delhi, from the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed., 1910-12
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Cartoon: [India’s 2024 General election] Your Vote will Determine Your Future | Hemant Morparia
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Documentary: Bhutan - the dictatorship of happiness | Alexandre Spailakovitch and Julien Boluen
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Le Bhoutan: la dictature du bonheur by imineo Documentaires https://youtu.be/w4Pf5tmHXDc?si=kaui_gDKtSbvxma2 -
The Left, Ecology and Degrowth. A panel with Feyzi Ismail, Kai Heron, Kin Chi Lau and Matt Huber
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The Left, Ecology and Degrowth. A panel with Feyzi Ismail, Kai Heron, Kin Chi Lau and Matt Huber. by Seminar Marxist Theory https://youtu.be/A-K_zy9NkeI?si=wOo_9roNLwBhBIM- -
Music Video: Saheb - a political song from India - Singer: Aditi, Composer: Vedi Sinha, Lyricist: Rajesh Nirmal & Producer: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
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साहेब/Saheb : Music Video by Paranjoy Online https://youtu.be/r_x0KVSOEhc -
Table of Contents - Mainstream, April 13, 2024
12 April 2024* Ladakh Fights to Restore Statehood and Mountain Ecology | Soma Marla
* Live-in lover law opens door to attacks on freedoms | Arpan Acharya
* My Life in the PLO The Inside Story of the Palestinian Struggle | Shafiq al-Hout