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• ‘Lack of effective road safety programmes is a major public health concern’ | Shazman Shariff

  8 July 2022

  by Shazman Shariff
  Activists, road crash survivors and victims’ families ha[d] a message for the upcoming UN General Assembly meeting on Global Road Safety, 30 June-1 July
  13 June 2022
  Seventeen-year-old Durva Bhasin in Jaipur had the morning off from school that Monday, as she walked to her Kathak practical exam, excited to show her prowess after months of practice. A rashly-driven bus ended her dreams.
  That day, 3 May 1999, also forever changed the lives of her parents Mridul and (…)

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  Review: Raghavan on Heinze’s ’The Most Human Right’

  8 July 2022, by G Narasimha Raghavan

  Book Review by G Narasimha Raghavan __0__
  The Most Human Right: Why Free Speech Is Everything by Eric Heinze London: The MIT Press 2002 211 Pages ISBN 9780262046459 (hardcover) $27.95
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  Interestingly, the visual artist and utopian author, Robert Alan Silverstein’s statement is accurate on its timing: "The evolution of the human rights movement clearly illustrates humanity’s ongoing struggle toward creating a better world." It is struggle, struggle and struggle that the author, (…)

• Who Will? | Jeevesh Gupta

  8 July 2022

  WHO WILL?
  When the young Veer shouted no one heard
  When the adult Ahmed howled no one gave an ear
  When the old Kapil screamed no one turned back
  We all got so engaged that we forgot that we could not just speak but also hear
  I was speaking, she was typing and the system was dictating but no one heard
  We were so busy pressing buttons that we forgot to express
  We were so occupied sending messages that we forgot to regret
  Many passed by and many passed away
  We had forgotten our (…)

• ‘Paper unions’ letting down China’s internal migrant workers | Jason Hung

  8 July 2022

  by Jason Hung, United Nations University in Bangkok
  Although trade unions are widespread in China, conditions for rural-to-urban migrant workers haven’t improved as fast as they have for local urban employees.
  China’s rapid urban transformation led to vast numbers of new jobs offering better pay than rural work. People migrated from villages to secure these jobs and try to lift their families’ standard of living. In 2019, 36 percent of China’s working population – an estimated 291 (…)

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  Caricature: Tribute to Peter Brook | Jayaraj Vellur

  8 July 2022, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Bertrand Russell’s letter to Albert Einstein for signing on to the Russell-Einstein Manifesto

  8 July 2022

  On 5 April 1955, literature laureate Bertrand Russell wrote to physics laureate Albert Einstein to ask for his support in standing up against nuclear weapons. Einstein agreed, leading to the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, which the scientist signed just days before his death.

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  The Mothers (1922) by Käthe Kollwitz

  8 July 2022
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  Video: Centre Court Centenary Celebration - Wimbledon 2022

  8 July 2022

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  Replay: The Centre Court Centenary Celebration by Wimbledon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2bnaJToMAw

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  Movie: Akaler Sandhaney (1981) by Mrinal Sen (with English Subtitles)

  8 July 2022

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  Akaler Sandhaney (1981) by Mrinal Sen (Full Movie with English Subtitles) by BILgraphy \m/ https://youtu.be/DitwOBHhwZ4

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  [bleu]Table of Contents, Mainstream, July 2, 2022[/bleu]

  2 July 2022

  * Affirmative Action in Higher Education: India and the West | Arup Maharatna
  * Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy and the Board of Governors | Nabanipa Bhattacharjee & Manish Thakur