2022

KASHMIRI PANDIT SANGARASH SAMITI SathuBarbar Shah, Srinagar, Kashmir (JLK) – 190001 e-mail: kpss.kashmir[at]gmail.com
Dated: 01.06.2022
Most Urgent / Most Important
Hon’ble The Chief Justice, High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh Srinagar
Subject:
Article 21 - Right to Life - representation for kind intervention and taking cognizance on the issue related to killing of Religious Minorities living in Kashmir Valley who are becoming victim of Terrorism and failure of UT | (…)

Reviewed by Jean-Michel Turcotte (Leibniz Institute for European History) __0__
Marilyn Grace Miller. Port of No Return: Enemy Alien Internment in World War II New Orleans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021. 296 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8071-7527-9.
John E. Schmitz. Enemies among Us: The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during the Second World War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. Illustrations, maps. (…)

"In 1931 Germany experienced the worst banking crisis in its history. One of the largest German banks, the Darm städter und National bank (Danat), filed for insolvency and the entire financial system collapsed within a few weeks. A banking panic broke out on 13 July and banks closed for three weeks. International investors withdrew their loans, the German government had to suspend international payments, and the major banks were temporarily nationalized." [ . . . ]

* Politics of Telangana & Andhra Pradesh in Post-Bifurcation Period | Karli Srinivasulu
* Allah Baksh and Indian Nationhood | Anil Nauriya
* Exodus from Sri Lanka to India | Apratim Mukarji
* The Staying Power of A Myth | Emma Goldman
* Audio: The Day of the Jackal Audiobook by Frederick Forsyth

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 28, 2022
The world renowned health journal The Lancet just published a new report on the impact of pollution on health. This study uses data from 2019 data to update its 2017 findings of the Lancet Commission on pollution and health. It reports that 9 million deaths happened worldwide due to air pollution and finds that deaths from pollution risk factors have gone up by 7 per cent since 2015. The Lancet report says that 1.6 million deaths occurred in (…)

The state of Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated into the two states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh (AP) in 2014 after nearly six decades of existence. It is more than seven years since they came into being as two separate states. Two elections to their state assemblies and two parliamentary elections in 2014 and 2019 have been conducted, leading to a restructuring of political regimes, strengthened development-welfare policy focus, new political contestations, and enhanced modes of coopting and (…)

Thoughts on On the Death Anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru — 27 May
It is a true mark of greatness if what a leader struggles to achieve in his lifetime is widely realized to be even more valuable in the years or decades after he has left the world. This is exactly how Jawaharlal Nehru is being remembered by more and more people of his country, despite a persistent tendency on the part of the present right-wing government to deny the greatness of his achievements and legacy. At a wider level (…)

by Rajinder Chaudhary
Fortunately, but unusually, recently financing of higher education in Haryana was under spotlight after the Finance Department of Haryana issued a notification sanctioning loan of Rs 147.75 crore to publicly funded Universities of Haryana. Newspapers reported that this loan was in lieu of annual grant-in-aid. Right at that time, a joint forum of students’ organisations of MD University, Rohtak had been agitating seeking roll back of doubling of various kind of fees (…)

(Online Lecture by Anil Nauriya on 14 May 2022 at Commemorative Function on Allah Baksh organised by the Society for Communal Harmony).
The 79th Anniversary of the assassination of Allah Baksh (spelt also as Bakhsh, Buksh and Bux) fell on May 14, 2022.
Why is it important to remember Allah Baksh and to commemorate this day?
All communalism thrives on stereotypes. Many of the stereotypes being circulated in the colonial interest have also strengthened communal stereotypes and (…)

The BJP has opened its cards for the coming polls, right up to the 2024 general elections—whip up a frenzy over Gyanvapi Masjid of Varanasi, Idgah in Mathura, even Qutub Minar in Delhi and a host of other historical monuments and thereby seek to scrap the Places of Worship (PoW) Act, 1991, which expressly forbids any alteration or claim on any place of worship other than those in whose care or possession it existed on 15 August, 1947, the day India achieved independence. The Act while (…)