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  Review Petition & Bhopal Gas Victims Organisations - Lawyers Note (Jan 12, 2023)

  14 January 2023

  Brief Note on behalf of
  Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sanghathan (BGPMUS) &
  Bhopal Gas Peedith Sangharsh Sahyog Samiti (BGPSSS)
  IN
  CURATIVE PETITION NOS. 345-347 OF 2010 IN CA NOS. 3187-3188/1988
  BRIEF NOTE BY SANJAY PARIKH, SENIOR ADVOCATE
  1. Applicants herein - BGPMUS & BGPMSS who represent the gas victims, have filed IA Nos. 22-24 in the present Curative Petition. They were the first to approach the Hon’ble Court ( in W.P(Civil) No. 843/1988) for interim relief (…)

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  Ibarra on Story, ’Soviet Influence on Cuban Culture, 1961-1987: When the Soviets Came to Stay’

  14 January 2023

  Reviewed by Clare Ibarra (University of California, Berkeley)
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  Soviet Influence on Cuban Culture, 1961-1987: When the Soviets Came to Stay by Isabel Story Lanham: Lexington Books 2019. xiii + 231 pp. cloth ISBN 978-1-4985-8011-3 Paperback 978-1-4985-8013-7
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  To date, there is very little scholarship available on what the Cuban-Soviet relationship, outside of high politics, looked like before the Soviet Union fell apart. While Cuban and Soviet historiography as separate (…)

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  Map of Afghanistan from Surveys Made by British and Russian Officers up to 1875

  14 January 2023

  https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.15025

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  Documentary: How to wrestle with gender norms and win | DW

  14 January 2023

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  How to wrestle with gender norms and win | DW Documentary by DW Documentary https://youtu.be/j3YBVc9dgMo

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  Video: Frene Ginwala - Negotiating the End of Apartheid

  14 January 2023

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  Frene Ginwala: Negotiating the End of Apartheid by TheFreedomCollection https://youtu.be/srySwI9LA0I

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  Music: Conny and the Bellhops - Bop Sticks (1960)

  14 January 2023

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  Conny and the Bellhops - Bop Sticks by Moto Cro https://youtu.be/lETKeTmJ-wY

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Jan 7, 2023

  7 January 2023

  * Awards Drama in Maharashtra | Kobad Ghandy
  * Mobilisation and right to the city | Prachy Hooda
  * Rammohan Roy on 250th Birth Anniversary | Jayanta Kumar Ghosal
  * Mysterious missing pages of Babarnama | Sankar Ray

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 7, 2023

  7 January 2023

  Letter to the Readers Mainstream, 7 Jan 2023
  In the past days the media has reported on a crisis situation in the mountain town of Joshimath in the Chamoli district in Uttarakhand state in the North of India. Shifting and sinking of ground beneath the surface has caused considerable damage, hundreds of homes, public buildings, temples and roads have become danger prone having developed major cracks and fissures in walls, roofs and in the ground. There have been protests from the affected (…)

• Awards Drama in Maharashtra | Kobad Ghandy

  7 January 2023, by Kobad Ghandy

  The government’s Marathi language department on December 6 announced the Yashwantrao Chavan Literature Award 2021 to Anagha Lele for her translation of Kobad Ghandy’s book ‘Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir’. 33 awardees were announced on that day and the translation of Fractured Freedom was chosen for the Tarktirth Laxmanshashastri Joshi Puraskar. The book was published by Lokwangmay Gruha.
  The next day, Deepak Kesarkar, minister in charge of the department, stated that he would (…)

• Anjali Singh’s death is not a simple hit and run accident case | Faraz Ahmad

  7 January 2023, by Faraz Ahmad

  Sanjeev Nanda the grandson of former Indian Navy chief Admiral S.M. Nanda and son of well known Arms dealer Suresh Nanda drove his brand new BMW not even registered yet through the police barricade at Lodhi Road in the early hours of 10 January, 1999 at a reported speed of 140 kilometres killing six people, mostly policemen on security duty manning the police checkpost. After years of to and fro in Delhi courts he was finally awarded only two years of imprisonment for rash and negligent (…)