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‘Black Lives Matter’: Slavery and Racism in the historical context | Ish Mishra
18 September 2020 -
1917 Poster of Liberty League Negro Americans meeting notice
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‘Forty Rules’, Gita, Commusings and the question of Inner Change | Kobad Ghandy
18 September 2020, by Kobad GhandyWhy did socialist societies reverse, inspite of being economically far more just? Why did some of their leaders become dictators? Why does money and power corrupt the best of persons? Why do comrades willing to give their lives for revolution, become, at times, the worst autocrats within the organisation, with even a little power? In short why does human nature change for the negative with power (money), and how can we acquire positive values needed, not only to bring and sustain an (…)
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The Stranded Migrants: Plights, Predicaments and Paybacks | Nupur Pattanaik
18 September 2020Deprivation, Unemployment, poverty migrants across the world are stranded in different places after the evacuation and unlock measures with strict protocols we come across that there are also several migrants who have not reached their destination due to insecurity of jobs and utter fear of poverty and loss of livelihood due to the pandemic. The lockdown to accommodate the proliferation of COVID-19 has led to an astounding humanitarian catastrophe which the state has grappled to manoeuvre. (…)
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SSR Drama, Silencing of young voices, Pamela Rooks lives on ... | Humra Quraishi
18 September 2020, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
September 16, 2020
In Mumbai, Sushant Singh Rajput’s death is turning into a full-fledged political war between the BJP and the Opposition. Its also being ‘used’ by starlets and socialites to get into the political arena and grab all possible mileage. An ambitious lot are to be seen all over on the small screen, coming with their politically-tilted theories. Pathetic! And here, in the national capital, the investigation in the North East Delhi pogrom is turning out to be more (…) -
Criminalising and Silencing Dissent: Delhi Police Investigations into the February Violence - Text of Press Release by Concerned Citizens | Sept 16, 2020
18 September 2020PRESS STATEMENT released on 16th September 2020 Press Club of India, New Delhi,
We have gathered here today to express our collective anguish at the sheer brazenness with which the Delhi police has turned the investigation into the February violence in Delhi into an inquisition of the anti-CAA protests. Just two days ago, Umar Khalid was taken into custody and booked under UAPA and several other criminal sections, thereby adding to the list of anti-CAA protestors languishing behind bars. (…) -
Conduct a Fair investigation into the violence in North East Delhi in end February 2020 - Letter From PUCL To Commissioner of Police, Delhi Police
18 September 2020PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES (PUCL) 332, Patpar Ganj, Opposite Anand Lok Apartments, Mayur Vihar I, Delhi 110 091 Phone 2275 0014 PP FAX 4215 1459 Founder: Jayaprakash Narayan; Founding President: V M Tarkunde President: Ravi Kiran Jain; General Secretary: Dr. V. Suresh E.mail: puclnat[at]gmail.com& pucl.natgensec[at]gmail.com
14th September 2020
To:
Mr SN Srivastava, IPS Commissioner of Police, Delhi Police Headquarters, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi (…) -
Gaia Versus the Anthropocene: A Conversation with Dorion Sagan
18 September 2020Greg Ruggiero interviews Dorion Sagan
19 Aug 2020
A SINGLE STRAND OF coded protein packed in a fatty shell — so small that it is almost immune to gravity — is changing humanity as we know it. What is happening? If we approach this question from the perspective of ourselves alone, it appears that we are under attack. But there are many other perspectives to consider, including the planet’s, whose interconnected ecosystems may be far more “intelligent” than our technologies. Could it be (…) -
Book Review: Jinee Lokaneeta’s The Truth Machines | Anushka Singh
18 September 2020, by Anushka SinghBOOK REVIEW
Jinee Lokaneeta’s The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence and Scientific Investigation in India Pages 264, 2020 | ISBN: 9789390122028 Imprint: Orient Blackswan
In 2010 historian Martin Jay in his book The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics argued that ‘politics and mendacity have been intimate bedfellows’. Relying on intellectual history, political philosophy and contemporary developments in American politics, he stated that despite a moral disdain for lying, lies have (…) -
Video: Oligarchs are Gaming Democracy | George Monbiot (Double Down News, Dec 22, 2019)
18 September 2020“The oligarchs have discovered the formula for persuading the poor to vote for the interests of the very rich” - George Monbiot (Double Down News, Dec 22, 2019)