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  • Supreme Court ruling renders the electoral bonds scheme unconstitutional - Statements by CPI(M) & CPI

    17 February 2024

    [Text of Statements by Left Parties]
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    Communist Party of India (Marxist) Central Committee
    Press Statement February 15, 2024
    A Historic Verdict
    The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) hails the historic judgment of the Supreme Court, which has struck down the electoral bonds scheme as unconstitutional. By this verdict, this unscrupulous scheme designed to finance the ruling party by anonymous corporate donors has been completely scrapped.
    The CPI(M) had declared at the outset itself (…)

  • Ruble’s Review of Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002 by Jane Freeland

    17 February 2024

    [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
    Reviewed by Alexandria Ruble (University of Idaho)
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    Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002 by Jane Freeland
    Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press 2022. viii + 239 pp. ISBN: 9780197267110
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    In many societies, even today, the voices of women who have endured domestic violence remain muted. Jane Freeland’s fantastic new monograph provides survivors and the (…)

  • An X-Ray of Britain’s scheming and India’s follies on China | M.R. Narayan Swamy

    17 February 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

    [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir] __0__ Cross Winds: Nehru, Zhou and the Anglo-American Competition over China; by Vijay Gokhale
    Vintage/Penguin Random House
    Pages: xvii + 235; Price: Rs 699 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0670099910 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0670099917 Former Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale’s scholarly study is a pointer that Jawaharlal Nehru may not have been the biggest villain of India’s disastrous policy on China after all. Based on startling archival material, Gokhale’s (…)

  • Political Autobiography of a Midnight’s Child | John Dayal

    17 February 2024, by John Dayal

    [fond noir][blanc]Book Reviewblanc]fond noir]
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    Keeping Up The Good Fight
    From The Emergency To The Present Day
    by Prabir Purkayastha
    LeftWord Books, New Delhi 2023, 230 pages
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    For any of his contemporaries born in a freshly minted independent India, Prabir Purkayastha’s book, “Keeping Up The Good Fight”, is a total recall, in lightning-fast picture flash cards, of the last sixty-years of our own life after leaving school. With the difference that Prabir bookends the (…)

  • Caricature: Tribute to AK Ramachandran | Jayaraj Vellur

    17 February 2024

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    SEE ALSO:
    [Artist A Ramachandran was a modernist, who explored the possibilities of tradition
    Nurtured by the Progressive writers and the educational vision of Santiniketan, Ramachandran had a broad social and artistic vision and a desire to express them in as many ways as possible.
    Written by R Siva Kumar (The Indian Express, February 13, 2024)
    https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/artist-a-ramachandran-was-a-modernist-who-explored-the-possibilities-of-tradition-9158167/

  • Cartoon: Protecting Electoral Prospects & Represing Farmers | Satish Acharya

    17 February 2024
  • Photo: Henri Cartier-Bresson - Ahmedabad, Gujarat (1966)

    17 February 2024
  • CPIML Poster for the Rural Strike and Bandh call on 16 Feb 2024

    17 February 2024
  • Audio: Rescuing Social Democracy with Olle Tournquist | Frontlines of Democracy

    17 February 2024
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Two Keyboards in C minor, BWV 1062 | Daniil Trifonov & Sergei Babayan

    17 February 2024

    Play
    Bach, Concerto for Two Keyboards in C minor, BWV 1062 by Daniil Trifonov Fan https://youtu.be/mqhMWcIiBC8?si=SFRfIjJoIRy5ZhTu
    Daniil Trifonov & Sergei Babayan /
    Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra / Gábor Takács-Nagy -
    Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Two Keyboards in C minor, BWV 1062
    00:00 Daniil with Sergei Babayan and Gábor Takács-Nagy entering the stage
    00:31 I. Vivace
    04:07 II. Largo ma non tanto
    10:54 III. Allegro assai
    15:30 Applause (…)

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