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• Michel Foucault: An Examination of Power | Cathal Larkin

  28 January 2022

  by Cathal Larkin
  An introduction to Michel Foucault’s concept of Power
  Michel Foucault is a philosopher whose politics everybody seems to have a differing opinion on. He has been called a disguised Marxist, both a secret and explicit anti-Marxist, a nihilist, a new conservative, a new liberal, a neutral interpretivist, a crypto-normativist, a principled anarchist as well as a dangerous left-wing one, and even a Gaullist technocrat. An American professor complained that an obvious KGB (…)

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  Music: Abide With Me

  28 January 2022

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  Abide With Me - Audrey Assad by Audrey Assad https://youtu.be/84YASWe3_2Q
  Abide With Me" was written in 1847 by Scottish Anglican poet and hymnologist Henry Francis Lytethe. It was a favourite of Mahatma Gandhi and it used to be played regularly by an instrumental Band of the Indian Army since 1950 at the beating the retreat ceremony marking the official winding up of Republic Day celebrations in India. The hymn was dropped under the Narendra Modi Government on (…)

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  Video: Reforming Maoist Planned Economy in China: Interview with Dr. Isabella Weber by Prof. Felix Wemheuer

  28 January 2022

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  Reforming Maoist Planned Economy in China: Interview with Dr. Isabella Weber by Prof. Felix Wemheuer by Felix Wemheuer Studying Maoist China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGywACfEKU

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  Agatha Christie’s Murder With Mirrors | 1985 TV Movie by Dick Lowry

  28 January 2022

  https://youtu.be/rpgHxDxj8-Q
  Directed by Dick Lowry | With Helen Hayes, Bette Davis, John Mills, Leo McKer

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Jan 22, 2022

  21 January 2022

  * Public Sector in India Faces a Three-Sided Assault | Arun Kumar
  * The Lamp | S.G.Vombatkere
  * RSS is in a bind over Dalits shiting loyalty | Arun Srivastava
  * Veil is anti-Quran | S. Faizi
  * Telangana Rastra Samiti & Political Dynamics in Telangana | Karli Srinivasulu

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Jan 22, 2022

  21 January 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, January 22, 2022
  This coming January 26 will mark the 73rd anniversary of India’s Republic Day. This is a day of great significance when our newly independent country adopted its new constitution. Since the 1950s a republic day parade is held in the national capital; It has been a stately event of pomp and show with a military parade and also with tableau’s representing different regions and a diverse cultural heritage of India. This year there has been a (…)

• Public Sector in India Faces a Three-Sided Assault | Arun Kumar

  21 January 2022, by Arun Kumar

  Paper Written for the AITUC Conference in Hyderabad, January 15, 2022.
  The government is accelerating the process of privatizing the public sector under one pretext or the other. This process was set in motion in 1991 with the new economic policies (NEP) but now using the excuse of dealing with the pandemic and sensing that the opposition is subdued since protest is not easy, the government has speeded up the process. It is talking of disinvestment, monetization of assets and strategic (…)

• The Lamp | S.G.Vombatkere

  21 January 2022, by S G Vombatkere

  Our PM has spoken. To quote him: "We have to light the lamp of responsibilities and obligation inside the heart of every citizen of the country. Then only the country will reach new heights", and “... society should stand on the foundations of equality and social justice”.
  To put it in context, PM also reportedly spoke words to the effect that, in the last 75 years since Independence, we have only talked about our rights, and wasted time in struggling and fighting for our rights, but that (…)

• Foundations of Indian Republic De-based: The Case of Federalism | D Raja

  21 January 2022, by D Raja

  by D Raja *
  We have entered the 72nd year of our Constitution’s coming into force declaring India a Sovereign Democratic Republic. This is also the 75th year of gaining independence from the British colonialism. The government of the day is observing it as ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’. The celebrations are already mired in controversy as the ruling regime is trying to further its communal agenda by falsifying and distorting history.
  The RSS and its outfits, which had no role in the freedom (…)

• Veil is anti-Quran | S. Faizi

  21 January 2022, by S Faizi

  As Muslims are facing increased threat in several countries, like the unending public lynching and the recent open call for genocide by the Hindutwa militia in India, some sections of them are shrinking into their shells. Hijab or veil is one expression of this shrinking phenomena. This uniform, often black, lose covering over one’s dress, known as purdah in south Asia and hijab or abaya in west Asia, has been spreading fast among Muslim women in the recent years. Even in places like Kerala- (…)