2023

Communist Party of India
Date: 06 August 2023
Press Release
Ground reality revealed after the visit of CPI delegation in violent Haryana; hatred is being created, mass migration is being forced
CPI delegation visits Haryana’s violence affected areas and interactions with various sections revealed dangerous levels of polarization and hatred in the region. CPI delegation visited violent Gurugram and Noh districts of Haryana on 06 August 2023. The delegation felt that intentionally (…)

PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES PUCL Maharashtra State Unit President: Mihir Desai; General Secretary: Lara Jesani; Treasurer: Alex D’Mello Committee Members: Ammu Abraham, Dolphy D’souza, Ramesh Awasthi, Sandhya Gokhale Email: pucl.maharashtra[at]gmail.com
August 7, 2023
PUCL MAHARASHTRA STATEMENT ON THE MULTIPLE MURDERS BY RPF CONSTABLE CHETAN SINGH OF HIS SUPERIOR OFFICER AND THREE MUSLIM PASSENGERS WHILE ON DUTY ONBOARD THE JAIPUR-MUMBAI CENTRAL EXPRESS ON JULY 31, 2023
Alarm (…)

BOOK REVIEW
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Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court
by Audrey Truschke
Penguin Books Mar/2016 Pages: xiv + 362; Price: Rs 450 ISBN: 9780143428909
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It is not without reason that Emperor Akbar (who ruled from 1556 to 1605) was always described as Akbar the Great – till Hindutva ideologues decided that popular admiration for him should go and he must be seen as another Muslim king who Hindu-majority India would have probably preferred to do without. (…)

BOOK REVIEW
Reviewed by Jaclyn A. Sumner (Presbyterian College)
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Electrifying Mexico:
Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City
by Diana J. Montaño
University of Texas Press 2021. Illustrations. xiv + 373 pp. (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4773-2345-8
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In Electrifying Mexico, Diana J. Montaño examines how government officials, engineers, citizens, and others worked to illuminate and power up Mexico City, the nation’s capital and emblem of progress. Montaño’s book is (…)

* Militant capitalism, bad infinity, and the longing for total revolution | Dilip Simeon
* Westinghouse reactors for Kovvada, AP Letter to Chair DAE | EAS Sarma
* Illegal Migration Act in the UK | Sona Singh
* Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War — The Role of Health Professionals | Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, et al
* AIKS Press Release on Communal Violence in Haryana (Aug 3, 2023)

Letter to the readers Aug 5, 2023
It’s been three months that widespread ethnic violence in BJP-ruled Manipur has led to nearly 60 thousand people being rendered homeless and yet no discussion and stocktaking has taken place in the Parliament. It is very creditable that opposition parties jointly went on a delegation to Manipur and have been steadfast in their demand for a discussion in Parliament. The Supreme Court while hearing a petition on Manipur recently described the situation there (…)

[marron]NB: This work-in-progress paper was a contribution to a conference hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Bergen, Norway. The conference( May 31-June 2, 2023) was titled 200 Years of Socialism: Revisiting the Old Dilemmas: First Annual Global Research Programme on Inequality Lecture [[https://gripinequality.org/event/the-grip-annual-lecture-2023]marron]
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Abstract: The Bolshevik confiscation of the Russian revolution was indeed a ‘bifurcation point’, (…)

From: EAS Sarma Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 at 10:31 Subject: Westinghouse’s Vogtle nuclear power reactors- Huge time/cost overruns- Likely implications for proposed Kovvada nuclear power project in AP To: Chair, DAE Cc: Secretary Power , T.V. Somanathan , Cc: Chief Secretary AP , Secretary, Energy - AP , Collector Skl
E A S Sarma Former Secretary to the Government of India
To
Dr A K Mohanty Chairman Dept of Atomic Energy (DAE) Govt of India
Dear Dr Mohanty,
I refer to the Nuclear (…)

Politics of Hindutva represents the dominant paradigm of politics in contemporary India. The eminent historian, Gyanendra Pandey, attempted to locate the making of this paradigm of politics in the article, ‘Which of Us are Hindus?’, carried in his edited book - Hindus and Others: The Question of Identity in India Today (Viking, New Delhi, 1993). His observations and arguments enlighten us about the genealogy of Hindutva politics in modern India.
Gyanendra Pandey argued: “The natural unity (…)

by Arun Srivastava
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is politically correct in saying that BJP has launched a riot politics. But she did not say that for implementing the politics of riots, the RSS and BJP need a strong band of committed Monus. He is not the only mastermind the saffron brigade has, through its ideological perversion has succeeded in creating a strong band of Hindutva bigots, but the fact which is regrettably ignored while analysing the emerging situation is the (…)