2021

Reviewed by L K Sharma
__0__ Space. life. Matter: The Coming of Age of Indian Science
by Hari Pulakkat
Publisher: Hachette India Print ISBN: 9789389253801, 9389253802 Print ISBN: 9789389253801, 9389253802 eText ISBN: 9789389253801, 9389253802 https://www.hachetteindia.com/TitleDetails.aspx?titleId=47092
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Independent India’s scientific achievements fascinate the common man and impress the global community of scientists. Scientific endeavour in India has had a tremendous impact (…)

On June 22 the Wall street Journal published an oped which has added to concerns regarding some aspects of Covid vaccines. This article stated, “Public health authorities are making a mistake and endangering public confidence by failing to report the possibility of harm from certain side effects of (Covid ) vaccines.” In addition, this article said that many of the problems in this context are caused by “deep entanglement of pandemic politics in science.”
This article titled ‘Are Covid (…)

by Sparsh Sharma*
As a student in a premier Indian institute, my agony till yesterday surrounded the fact that the colleges are unable to reopen
But today, it saddens me even more, albeit I have not lost any of my family members due to the second wave of the virus. And this is simply because it is no less than a personal loss when I see thousands of people dying Hence the legitimate question arises, why on Earth are these congregations needed in the first place when it would ultimately (…)

MUSINGS June 30, 2021
For the last few hours, I have been reading this latest book on the situation of the prisoners. In fact, the very title of this book — Innocent Prisoners. Begunah Qaidi. Stories of Muslim Youth Falsely Implicated In The 7/11 Train Blasts and Other Terror Cases (Pharos Media) — relays the stark reality to those sitting implicated and imprisoned.
This book has been authored by one of the former prisoners, Abdul Wahid Shaikh, who was himself implicated in the 11 July (…)

by Nand L. Dhameja and Manish Dhameja*
Share Buy-Back is a simple way to reduce share capital. By this process, the company buys-back its shares and pays from its own cash or by borrowing for the purpose. This enables the company to reduce its capital, extinguishes the extra shares which it does not require; The process is normally followed by companies which are rich in cash, or are in a position to raise funds from the market and it enables it to reduce the capital it does not require, (…)

Written in Telugu by Prof. Devaraju Maharaju
(Original Telugu title "Deshanni sanitise Cheddam" and published in Telugu daily, "Prajashakthi" on April 24, 2021)
English translation: Anishetty Shankar
Editorial revision: LK Sharma
A new virus attacked this country Be careful! This would hunt question and kill it. It openly attacks the Other. It does not let us breath in or breathe out, It conducts repeated blood test, snatches the few rupees you have, makes you penniless and throws (…)

by Shoshana Zuboff
We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both.
29 Jan 2021 – Two decades ago, the American government left democracy’s front door open to California’s fledgling internet companies, a cozy fire lit in welcome. In the years that followed, a surveillance society flourished in those rooms, a social vision born in the distinct but reciprocal needs of public intelligence agencies and private internet companies, both spellbound by a (…)

by Anarcho
The world’s first explicitly anarchist-feminist group was created as part of the thriving nineteenth-century Anarchist movement in Argentina. It produced the first anarcha-feminist newspaper, La Voz de la Mujer. Sadly, the history of anarchist-feminism in Argentina has rarely been acknowledged, at best mentioned in passing, at worse ignored or forgotten.
La Voz de la Mujer was published in Buenos Aires only nine times, beginning on January 8, 1896 and ending almost exactly (…)

by Giorgio Agamben
2006
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From this perspective, capitalism and other modern forms of power seem to generalize and push to the ex­treme the processes of separation that define religion. If we consider once again the theological genealogy of apparatuses that I have traced above (a genealogy that connects them to the Christian paradigm of oikono­mia, that is to say, the divine governance of the world), we can then see that modern apparatuses differ from their traditional predecessors in (…)

CITIZENS FOR DEMOCRACY (CFD) GPF, 221-3 Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg, New Delhi-110002 “Ashadeep”, XI Cross, Saptapur, Dharwad — 580001, Karnataka Email: srhiremath1944[at]gmail.com Ph: 94481 45930 _______ No.263/CFD-NG/2021-22
June 25, 2021
Hon’ble Prime Minister, Govt of India, South Block, New Delhi
Respected Sir,
Sub: Urging you to submit your Resignation as Prime Minister (PM) along with your Government, to facilitate (…)