2021

MUSINGS 7 April 2021
Humra Quraishi
In the midst of the recent news reports of Electronic Voting Machines getting taken here and there by the political candidates, there’s that earnest cry that we get back to the ballot paper days, and with that safer ways to the very voting process. In fact, people’s faith in the present day political lot and the machinery under their control is fast withering, if not done and over with! In fact, just after the 2017 election results were (…)

by Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha
Two seminal texts of early twentieth century literature, namely, The Waste Land written by British poet T S Eliot and Bidrohi (The Rebel) by Kazi Nazrul Islam, both published in 1922, both recognized as landmark poetic marvels because of their radically transformative “modern” content, texture and style, something that took their respective literary cultures by storm, are marking their centenaries in 2021. Eliot needs no introduction, popularly put, he is a (…)

CITIZENS FOR DEMOCRACY (Set up by Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan in 1974 in defence of democracy & democratic values) F-1/A-75, SHALIMAR GARDEN MAIN, Sahibabad, Ghaziabad-201005
Date: 8th April 2021
PRESS RELEASE
Since 1st February 2021 when the military generals took control of Myanmar by toppling its democratically elected government, the mass protests against the coup are continuing. The army Generals in order to quell the protests have let loose brutal repression and detained Ms. (…)

DELHI UNIVERSITY TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION DAY CENTRE BUILDING, CHHATRA MARG, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI, DELHI-110007 : 27667822, 27666351, 27667725/1697 Website: duta-du.info, Email: duta.du@gmail.com
6.4.2021
Vice-Chancellor (Acting) University of Delhi Delhi – 110007 Prof. P C Joshi
Sub: Appeal to review disciplinary action against Dr. G. N. Saibaba, Assistant Professor, RLA College, University of Delhi
Ref: Our earlier appeal dated 3.7.2018
Dear Prof. Joshi,
1. As you may be aware, (…)

COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENCE AND RELEASE OF DR. GN SAIBABA
PRESS RELEASE
April 6th 2021
The Committee for the Defence and Release of Dr G N Saibaba is deeply shocked and dismayed to learn that Dr Saibaba’s service as an Assistant Professor in Ram Lal Anand College, Delhi University, have been terminated by the said college, with effect from the 31stof March 2021.
The Committee has learned that the College had been given a clear directive from the University of Delhi to send a second (…)

Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2021
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
The current revelation in a French media portal that one million euros were paid to a “middleman” in the deal to buy 36 Rafale jets has once again raised the issue of kickbacks and other illegal payments in the Rafale deal. The report is based on an analysis of the Dassault company’s accounts of 2017.
The dogged refusal by the Modi government to order a probe (…)

BOOK REVIEW
Bernard D’Mello: India After Naxalbari. Unfinished History. Aakar Books 2018
This meticulously researched book deals with “a thread of history that mainstream historians have tended to either ignore or misinterpret. This account puts it straight into our history books.” Arundhati Roy
Bernard d’Mello is clearly not a mainstream historian.He has made extraordinary efforts to dig up this hidden history and to make it accessible to readers who are not afraid to face this (…)

From pages 180-184 The Limits to Growth (1972) by Meadows, Meadows, Randers & Behrens III
THE TRANSITION FROM GROWTH TO GLOBAL EQUILIBRIUM
We can say very little at this point about the practical, day-by-day steps that might be taken to reach a desirable, sustainable state of global equilibrium. Neither the world model nor our own thoughts have been developed in sufficient detail to understand all the implications of the transition from growth to equilibrium. Before any part of the (…)

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Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 3, 2021
We feel concerned at the disturbing incident of public thrashing of a BJP MLA from Punjab. It is appropriate that in Congress party Ruled Punjab the Chief Minister has ordered stringent action against the perpetrators. The farmers’ unions from Punjab must now also come out publicly and take distance from such mob justice. As a state ruled by the most prominent social-democratic opposition party and also a place from where the most formidable (…)