2024

Indians for Palestine STOP THE GENOCIDE! CEASEFIRE NOW! END THE ILLEGAL ISRAELI OCCUPATION FREE PALESTINE INDIAN GOVT MUST END ALL TIES WITH ISRAEL
New Delhi, 9 August 2024
Indians for Palestine held a silent display of solidarity with the people of Palestine to demand for CEASEFIRE and urge the Government of India to stop all ties with Israel for the time being.
We have been detained despite informing the Delhi Police about our gathering near the APJ Abdul Kalam crossing.
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[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Neither Confirm nor Deny: How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency
by M. Todd Bennett
Columbia University Press 2023. 384 pp ISBN 978-0-231-19347-4 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-19346-7
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Reviewed by Chuck Steele
Despite the centrality of the ocean research vessel Glomar Explorer to this fascinating story, this is not a book intended for an audience of environmental historians. It is, however, a first-rate (…)

[This article was drafted on 20 July 2024. The government job quota reform movement in Bangladesh is over. According to the judgment of the Supreme Court at Dhaka dated July 21, the cause of the agitation has vanished. However, the struggle to form the government by the communal rioter underlings favored by multinational capital, is not yet over. Bargaining is going on between the transnational bosses and their local footmen. This text could not be published earlier due to internet (…)

Pashaner bhangale ghum
ke tumi sonar choa
 What is the golden touch that has awakened the stone. Kazi Nazrul Islam 
 

AS ONE TRAVELS by road from Saidpur towards Rangpur (the largest city in northwestern Bangladesh) one cannot miss the SUV-size sweatshops lining the roadside. This was the progress that came to Bangladesh in the 1990s, in the form of Athleisure clothing by Nike, Adidas and many others. Cheap textiles and cheaper labour which meant jobs for thousands. Remember the 40 rupees (…)

* Letter on the lifting of the "ban" on Govt. employees taking part in the activities of RSS | E A S Sarma
* Ambani Wedding: The Need for State-Regulation in Indian Capitalism |
Gilbert Sebastian
* Observations on Kashmir Today | Suresh Khairnar
* Understanding New Modes of Environmental Governance | Prakash C.J
* The Psychological Structure of Fascism | Georges Bataille

A massive landslide disaster took place in the week gone past in hilly Wayanad in Kerala, taking over 300 lives and causing large-scale damage in an area that has seen a tourist boom. Wayanad also happens to be the parliamentary constituency from where the Congress Party leader Rahul Gandhi served a term as MP and won again recently. He and other Congress leaders have been there to offer solace and relief. Kerala’s Left government has left no stone unturned in rescue and relief efforts, but (…)

August 2, 2024
With two Advertorials published in a week in a prominent English daily in Bangalore, the Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah strongly defended himself against the charges of corruption and irregularities made by the combined BJP - JDS Opposition. It appears that Siddaramaiah is desperately trying to save his weakened position as Chief Minister of the State. He has already stoutly defended himself against the charges in the short session of the Assembly
Out of these (…)

E A S Sarma Former Secretary to the Government of India
To
Shri Rajiv Gauba Cabinet Secretary Government of India
I write this letter with a feeling of anguish and distress at a disturbing news report , preceded by an equally thought-provoking, earlier article by him , which should make each and every member of the civil services, as well as all right-thinking citizens of this country, to understand and feel concerned at the long-term adverse implications of such a highly objectionable (…)

No one can conquer Kashmir by force, only by virtue and love, the residents here are afraid only of the afterlife, not of armed people! — Pandit Kalhan (Rajatarangini)
On 5 August 2019, the Narendra Modi government decided to remove Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir after winning the elections for the second time! This was part of the policy of the political party Jan Sangh founded in 1950! Which is known as the Bharatiya Janata Party after 1980! Jan Sangh’s founding president Dr. Shyama (…)

The recent notification of the Indian State is a direct assault on the rights and dignity of the people living in the Kashmir valley. The Ministry of Home Affairs notified changes on 12 July, 2024, that enhanced powers of the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Lieutenant Governor (LG). The Union Home Ministry amended the rules of the J&K Reorganisation Act, 2019, “giving the LG unbridled powers over the police, public order, all-India services, and the anti-corruption bureau”. To put it in the (…)