Mainstream Weekly[November 30, 2021] Full statement from International Press Institute with editors and journalists follows:
We, the undersigned members of the global Executive Board of the International Press Institute (IPI) – editors and journalists hailing from 22 countries – call on the government of the Philippines to allow our fellow Board member and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa to attend her Nobel ceremony on December 10 in Oslo.
Equally, we renew our call on the Philippine authorities (…)
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Table of Contents, Mainstream, Nov 27, 2021
27 November 2021* Correction: Freedom Came In 2014 | TJS George
* The Pope’s call, and India’s post-truth Media | John Dayal
* Bordoli Peasants in 1928 & the Farmers Movement Now Both Opposed Divisive Politics | SN Sahu
* Electoral Democracy: Reinvent It | A Basheer
* Woman’s Question in Communal Ideologies in India: A Study into the Ideologies of RSS and Jamat-e-Islami | Ish Mishra