2022

DIGIPUB News India Foundation | digipubindia.in
[Sept 8, 2022]
The assault on independent journalism and research continues with IT "surveys" on the Independent and Public-Spirited Media Foundation, Centre for Policy Research and Oxfam. DIGIPUB condemns this repressive trend.
On 7 September 2022, the Income tax Department conducted surveys at the offices of the Independent and Public-spirited Media Foundation, the Centre for Policy Research and Oxfam India and as part of an inquiry (…)

Southasia Peace Action Network 566 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116, USA southasiapeaceactionnetwork[at]gmail.com
07 September 2022
To:
International Cricket Council (ICC) Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Board for Cricket Control in India (BCCI) Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB)
Southasians stand with Pakistan flood victims
A statement of alignment with the cause across the region and diaspora (…)

Report of the Book Release Event
22 August 2022 | 5 pm to 7 pm | Constitution Club, Rafi Marg, New Delhi 110001
Joshi-Adhikari Institute of Social Studies (JAISS) in collaboration with ActionAid India and Aakar Books organized a book release function and a discussion on the book titled – “From the realm of the necessity to the realm of freedom” written by Jaya Mehta and Vineet Tiwari and published by Aakar Books. The event was held at the Constitution Club on 22nd August 2022.
Jaya (…)

BOOK REVIEW
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Karunanidhi: A Life
by A.S. Panneerselvan
Penguin/Viking
ISBN: 9780670082940
Pages: 450
Price: Rs 699
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Who was the real Muthuvel Karunanidhi?
A statesman and a visionary? A corrupt politician? A strong advocate of federalism? A Tamil chauvinist? Secular to the core? Anti-Hindu? A leader who aided Tamil Nadu’s progress? LTTE’s godfather? Social reformer?
It would be extremely difficult for anyone to do a political autopsy of one of India’s (…)

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The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects by Ted R. Schultz, Richard Gawne, Peter N. Peregrine, eds. Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology. Cambridge: MIT Press 2022. 338 pp. $75.00 (paper) ISBN 978-0-262-54320-0.
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In this edited collection, a group of primarily evolutionary biologists examine the biological adaptations of insect species that “cultivate” primarily fungi as well as other insects (…)

Inhale, absorb and drift from one pole to another. Soak in from both the worlds, devastation and prosperity together. Reaching the height of never-known scientific advancements, The human progress pyramid crashed. The challenge came from An unknown virus incompatible with scientific temperament.
As the world mustered itself against the alpha, beta and omicron forces, We sat locked down fathoming the virus and paying the price. Many came to the rescue, Doctors, armies and research (…)

* Tribute: Mary Roy (1933 - 2022) | John Dayal
* Tribute: Economist Abhijit Sen (1950-2022) | Bharat Dogra
* On the Report on Reforms in Higher Education, Kerala, 2022 | P S Jayaramu
* Letter to Director, CBI on the Bilkis Bano matter | Jagdeep Chhokar

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, September 3, 2022
Weather doesn’t know borders and most of all for immediate neighbours. The same monsoons bring rain to India, Pakistan, and all of South Asia. Floods are a yearly occurrence in the countries of the region. And this year too there was large scale flooding in the region. In recent years the intensity of rains and scale of floods, cyclones but also droughts have been getting extreme. Experts clearly see a link with climate change globally. (…)

I have known Arundhati Roy from when she was a student at the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture, her launching pad not so much in the making of buildings, but in the breaking of shibboleths, and the silence surrounding the powerful Indian state. That was her launching pad for the script of “In Which Anne Gives it Those Ones”, on to several other films of great aesthetics and modest box office, before she became one of the most famous writers of Independent India – together with (…)

Economist Abhijit Sen passed away on the night of 29 August 2022. He was 72.
For a long time, he has been regarded as one of India’s leading agricultural economists who made a very important contribution to government policy, particularly in the context of a public distribution system.
India’s structure of food security has been created to a considerable extent on a system of procurement of food crops at a higher price from farmers and supplying at a lower, subsidized price to consumers. (…)