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  Prakash Singh and the Future of Police Reforms in Independent India | KS Subramanian

  11 March 2023, by K S Subramanian

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  The Struggle For Police Reforms in India : Ruler’s Police to People’s Police by Prakash Singh
  Rupa Publications India May 2022 Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9355202474 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9355202475
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  Prakash Singh is a leading former IPS officers of India. He belongs to the Uttar Pradesh cadre of the IPS and was the state’s Director General of Police. He was also DG of the Border Security Force, a Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) such as the CRPF (…)

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  Indian History or Propaganda? | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  11 March 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
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  Don’t Forward That Text! Separating Myths from History on Social Media
  by Amit Schandillia
  HarperCollins India Pages: 303 Price: Rs 399
  So, many Hindu temples did Tipu Sultan destroy?
  Many, most might answer. Innumerable, Hindu radicals are bound to assert. History communicator Amit Schandilia’s meticulous research leads to findings that are bound to shock everyone: those who view the Muslim king positively and those who hate him.
  At the height of the (…)

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  When The Other Moves Into Limelight | Radhakanta Barik

  11 March 2023, by Radhakanta Barik

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  Dark Fear, Eerie Cities: New Hindi Cinema in Neoliberal India by Šarūnas Paunksnis
  Oxford University Press 2019 ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0199493189 193 pages, Kindle Edition __0__
  GLOBALIZATION TRANSFORMED INDIA into modern economy in the mid-nineties. The positive impact on the economy, however, disrupted India’s traditional social structures. Withdrawal of the state from economic activities pushed society in India to modernise but created tenuous relationships in different (…)

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  Painting: The Little Girl in Blue | Amrita Sher Gil (Dec 1934)

  11 March 2023
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  Photo: Dostoevsky’s St. Petersburg view from Raskolnokov’s window (1967) | Inge Morath

  11 March 2023
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  Music: I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts | Freddy Martin

  11 March 2023

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  I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts by FREDDY MARTIN - Topic https://youtu.be/qp_ylvwWMTQ

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  Video: Guy Standing and Yanis Varoufakis speak on the need for Basic Income

  11 March 2023

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  Guy Standing & Yanis Varoufakis on Basic Income [ in English, ελληνικοί υπότιτλοι ] by mέta — Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation https://youtu.be/iweLU5aVKrk
  Il Centro per la Civiltà Postcapitalista, mέta, ha organizzato martedì 21 settembre 2021 una discussione tra Guy Standing e Yanis Varoufakis sulla necessità del Reddito di Base. Ha moderato Sotiris Mitralexis. L’evento è stato co-organizzato da Mέta, Museo Numismatico di Atene e Papasotiriou Publishing, a (…)

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Feb 25 & Mar 4, 2023 [Double issue]

  25 February 2023

  * Reimagining everyday justice | Shalu Nigam
  * Śūnyatā and Karl Marx | Pradip Baksi
  * Bhiwani Murders, Haryana Police & Cow Vigilantes | Subhashini Ali
  * Russia: The Collapse of the Vertical | Oleg Sheyn

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 25 & Mar 4, 2023

  25 February 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 25 & March 4, 2023
  Cow Protection Vigilante Groups Undermine Constitutional Governance in Haryana
  The BJP government in the state of Haryana which is ideologically committed to promoting a Hindutva agenda brought in a Cow Protection Act in 2015 to counter cow slaughter and curb cow smuggling. The state later went on to establish a Special Cow Protection Task Force in each district; This scheme became an entry point for far-right religiopolitical (…)

• Domestic Workers Toil on in Conditions of Reduced Real Wages and Increasing Debts | Bharat Dogra

  25 February 2023, by Bharat Dogra

  Millions of domestic workers in India, an overwhelming majority of them women, have suffered reduced real earnings and increased debts in recent times. In fact in some cases even actual earnings have declined, while after taking into account the impact of inflation, the decline of real wages can be seen in almost all cases.
  Aasmeen leaves her home in Shahbad Dairy, Delhi, early in morning in order to be able to cover all the four households in which her services are used, mainly in various (…)