2021

by R.G.Gidadhubli *
October 25, 2021 On the 20th of October 2021, Russia organized Moscow Format Conference to make efforts to deal with problem in Afghanistan. A high level Taliban delegation attended the Conference apart from officials from eight other countries including China, Central Asia, India and Pakistan. The Indian side was represented by joint secretary J P Singh and Joint Secretary (Eurasia) Adarsh Swaika. The Conference was not attended by the USA. The Taliban (…)

by Murzban Jal
There is a belief abroad that Gandhi is against capitalism. This misplaced belief is obviously the result of his fanatic tirades against the “satanic civilization of the west”. The antics of his economic theories must also have contributed to this belief. You need not be told his groundless his belief is. ‘Mahatma and Capitalism’, in Masses, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1925.
Titanic and terrible events are approaching with implacable force. Mankind lives in expectation of war, (…)

by Atul Sarma and Shyam Sunder *
After curving out a separate ministry for cooperation out of the ministry of agriculture, the minister for home and cooperation announced in the first national cooperative conference held on September 25, 2021 that the centre together with states will expand the number of primary agriculture cooperatives from the existing 60,000 to three lakh in the next five years. Explaining that the new “ministry has been created to bring transparency and strengthen, (…)

MUSINGS
27 October 2021
Tell me where to start from and where to end? The in-between anyway seems so very frightful and complicated …murkier it gets by the day! Yet we sit as mute spectators. Do we have the freedom to even raise our voice or throw up a query or two on the all’s -going- fine narrative, uttered rather too frequently and shamefully by the ruling lot! Today let us talk of Dengue and Hunger and the related deaths from the onslaughts of the two deadly disasters. Mind you, (…)

It is with great concern and anguish we note that mosques and members of the Muslim community and their houses were attacked in different areas in Tripura. This is said to be retaliation for the unfortunate attacks on the Puja Pandals and on members of Hindu Community in Bangladesh during the recent Durga Puja festival.
We welcome the reports of statement of Tripura BJP spokesperson Nabendu Bhattacharya said that party workers, mainly from minority cell, “are keeping a close watch (…)

Communist Party of India
New Delhi,
October 27, 2021
Press Release
CPI Welcomes SC Verdict on Pegasus
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India has issued today (on October 27, 2021) the following statement welcoming the Supreme Court verdict on Pegasus snooping matter:
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India welcomes the Supreme Court verdict appointing a three-member expert committee into the Pegasus snooping matter. The committee has been (…)

by Martha Rosenberg *
What PR genius came up with the catchy, dismissive moniker “fake meat”? The term, along with the euphemistic “protein plants” for slaughterhouses, shows just how threatened meat producers have become by the legions now embracing plant-based meat....and the prospect of cultured meat coming up the rear.
There are many euphemisms for killing animals that seek to occlude the struggle and fight to the last breath that animals, who value their lives and don’t want to die, (…)

BOOK REVIEW
by Hannah Cutting-Jones
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Green Meat? Sustaining Eaters, Animals, and the Planet
by Ryan M. Katz-Rosene, Sarah J. Martin, eds.
April 2020
272 pp.
ISBN 9780228001331
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. __0__
Green Meat? takes on a critically important and complex issue: whether meat can or should be part of a sustainable food system in a future clouded by climate change. Central to the debates laid out in this collection of essays are competing (…)

Originally published in Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906
Is the child to be considered as an individuality, or as an object to be moulded according to the whims and fancies of those about it? This seems to me to be the most important question to be answered by parents and educators. And whether the child is to grow from within, whether all that craves expression will be permitted to come forth toward the light of day; or whether it is to be kneaded like dough through external forces, (…)

* India’s Covid Death Toll: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics | K N Ninan
* Global Financial Architecture Underlies the Illegality of the Rich | Arun Kumar
* Online Dating Apps: Changes and Continuities in Gender Relations | Piyali Sur
* Do Not Falsify History by Linking Gandhi to Savarkar’s Mercy Petitions | S N Sahu