Mainstream WeeklyOctober 16, 2020
Dear Friends:
We are writing this letter with the hope that you will join the international call for a ceasefire to end the bloodshed and human and cultural carnage taking place since September 27, 2020 in what has been described as the “de facto Armenian republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh)” within the Soviet-era boundaries of Azerbaijan.
Ever since the fierce border disputes at the time of the establishment of Soviet Armenia and Soviet Azerbaijan, ethnic discomfort (…)
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A Call for Lasting Peace in Nagorno-Karabakh | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Tariq Ali, Viken Berberian, Noam Chomsky ...
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The Destruction of Humanity and Nature: What is to be Done? | Murzban Jal
24 October 2020by Murzban Jal
On Human Alienation and the Denkverbot (Prohibition against Thinking)
Consider the Covid-19 pandemic along with the late 2019 Australian bush fires. Also consider the Amazon forests being depleted, not to forget California being burnt in 2019 by unexplained wildfires. While it may seem that it is some unknown fires and even more unknown virus that are creating havoc, a closer philosophical understanding will note that it is not viruses and fires which are problems, but (…) -
Debilitating historicity: History as statecraft | Navneet Sharma and Anamica
24 October 2020by Navneet Sharma and Anamica
"If history and science has taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth." —E.O. Wilson
Those who don the historian’s hat are expected to unearth, collect, and present facts that make a coherent and cogent narrative. A historian also must have the historical sensibility and historical mind. Though history is known as the story of the past yet it is not a story but a reconstruction of the past based on pieces of evidence and (…) -
Social Media and Fake News | D.K. Giri & Maria Khan
24 October 2020by D.K. Giri & Maria Khan
The internet euphemistically called social media is a wonderful invention and a powerful tool for connection and communication. A vast number of people outside the mainstream media can use social media for various purposes- sharing information, conversations, group interaction, branding, relationships and so on. One can reach and engage with the target audience irrespective of their locations. It is also a powerful tool for social and political mobilization. (…) -
Statement by The Editors Guild on the Sealing of the Srinagar offices of Kashmir Times | October 22, 2020
24 October 2020The Editors Guild of India
PRESS STATEMENT
October 22, 2020
The unprecedented and sudden sealing of the Srinagar offices of Kashmir Times is reprehensible, and has disturbing implications for the media of the two Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.
Newspapers and Magazines in the undivided state of Jammu and Kashmir were already ravaged by conflict, with editors and correspondents working against difficult odds.
Publications have steadily lost advertising over the (…) -
Assault on reporter of The Caravan Magazine in Delhi - Statement by the Editors Guild of India, October 21, 2020
24 October 2020Editors Guild of India
October 21, 2020
Editors Guild of India is dismayed at the brazen attack by a Delhi Police official on a journalist of The Caravan magazine while he was carrying out his duty as a member of the press.
On 16 October, Mr Ahan Penkar was reporting on the alleged rape and murder of a teenaged Dalit girl in North Delhi. The teenaged girl’s family and some student activists had organised a protest outside the Model Town police station. The police detained the (…) -
Italy shows how easily Europe’s leftwing strongholds can fall to the right | Rosa Gilbert
24 October 2020by Rosa Gilbert *
Matteo Salvini has failed to capture Tuscany. But as the extreme right becomes more mainstream, the left must make a better offer
“Europe is watching us”, declared La Nazione newspaper in Tuscany, the only Italian leftwing stronghold that the centre-left managed to retain in the 2019 European elections. This weekend, it was on the verge of having its first ever rightwing governor. Ultimately, Matteo Salvini’s anti-immigrant League party failed to capture Tuscany, but it (…) -
[bleu]Table of Contents - Mainstream, Oct 17, 2020 | Lockdown Edition no. 30[/bleu]
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Letter to the Readers - Mainstream, October 17, 2020 | Lockdown Edition no. 30
17 October 2020Letter to the Readers – Mainstream, October 17
Mehbooba Mufti, the former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, has been released from detention after a period of 14 months. She was released just ahead of the October 15 hearing in the Supreme Court of her daughter’s petition which alleged illegal detention. It remains to be seen when all who had opposed abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A, dissolution and reorganisation of J&K will be released. We hope that Mehbooba Mufti and all other (…) -
Unconditional Apology | Sumit Chakravartty and AK Biswas
17 October 2020The Mainstream weekly (publisher) and Mr A.K. Biswas, a retired IAS Officer and former Vice Chancellor, B.R. Ambedkar University, Muzaffarpur (Bihar) (author) (hereinafter collectively referred to as "we", "our", or "us") hereby fully retract an article ("Mainstream article") authored by Mr Biswas, which was published in the July 1, 2017 issue of Mainstream weekly (print and online) and reiterate that our previously published note ("Readers, Please Note", Mainstream, December 1-7, 2017, page (…)