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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. 251/CFD-NG/2021-22
May 12, 2021
1. Hon’ble President of India, Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi 2. Hon’ble Chief Justice of India, Supreme Court of India, New Delhi 3. Hob’le Chairman of Rajya Sabha, Parliament Bhavan, New (…)

All India Trade Union Congress
Press Release
The following statement was issued to the press by Ms. Amarjeet Kaur, General Secretary, AITUC today on 26th May 2021.
AITUC congratulates kisans, workers, students, youth, front line workers for making
26th May 2021 a memorable “BLACK DAY for INDIAN DEMOCRACY”
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) and the CTUs, independent sectoral federations/associations had given a call to observe 26th May 2021 as a Black Day for Indian Democracy. That is (…)

Right to Food Campaign Secretariat Email: righttofoodindia[at]gmail.com | Mobile: 8527359760 Landline: 011-41613468
23 May, 2021
As the surge of Covid-19 continues and spreads to rural areas, along with lockdowns in most parts of the country, we are once again witnessing severe economic distress amongst people, especially informal sector workers in both urban and rural areas. The situation is even worse this time, compared to last year, as the burden of healthcare expenses is also high, (…)

by Ram Puniyani
With the outbreak of Covid 19, one of the earliest claims for its treatment came from Baba Ramdev. Baba Ramdev is the leading Baba who is also close to the ruling dispensation. He began becoming popular with his Yoga exercises and later took up the manufacture of medicines etc. including cow products. He has come to stand in the row of leading Corporate of the country. He learned his craft of Yoga from his Guru. His colleague Acharya Balkishan is the one who is his partner (…)

by Dr. Ratheesh Kaliyadan * Lifelong education fosters active and informed citizenship which is one of the crucial protective measures in a misinformed and threat posed democracy (UIL, 2020). There are many kinds of pathways for misinformation flow. Ruling environment generated ones and opposition generated ones are the two ways of misinformation transmissions. Lakshadweep becomes an experimental epicenter of both pathways. This smallest Union Territory of India, earlier known as Laccadive (…)

Reviewed by M.R. Narayan Swamy
The Coolie’s Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict 1914-1921 by Radhika Singha HarperCollins Publishers India (https://harpercollins.co.in); Pages: 373; Price: Rs 699
This is a breathtaking and path-breaking study into how Indian non-combatants, euphemistically called coolies, served the British Raj during World War I. It has two broad aims: one, to rescue the ‘coolie’ and ‘the menial’ in military employment from their condition of historical (…)

Reviewed by Melvin E. Page (East Tennessee State University)
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Bakary Diallo, Lamine Senghor. White War, Black Soldiers: Two African Accounts of World War I. Translated by Nancy Erber and William Peniston. Edited and introduction by George Robb. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2021. Illustrations. 200 pp. $17.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62466-951-4
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White War, Black Soldiers is a welcome addition to the growing effort to bring African voices from World War I to an (…)

Review by Nupur Pattanaik*
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INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION: A Very Short Introduction
by Khalid Koser
(2016) Pages 136, Price 399, ISBN-978-0-19-875377-3
Oxford University Press, UK
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This book highlights various issues of migration and mobilities specifically and is highly relevant as migration has become a catchword in times of the pandemic as the migrants have been the most affected and vulnerable in these times. The book incorporates the author’s experience gained while (…)

Parul Khakhar, is well known in literary circles in Gujarat. Her poem Shav-Vahini Ganga of May 11, 2021 about the devastating sight of Covid-19 second wave dead bodies that were found floating in the Ganges river has been very popular on social media and has been translated into English, Hindi, and Punjabi several other Indian languages.
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[English Translation: Salil Tripathi ]
Don’t worry, be happy, in one voice speak the corpses O King, in your Ram-Rajya, we see bodies flow in (…)

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* Socialism - Association of Free Individuals | Paresh Chattopadhyay
* An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis | James Baldwin