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Leela Mukherjee A Guileless Modernist

Date: 20 Sep 2019
Alexander Dunlap talks about his new book Renewing Destruction: Wind Energy Development, Conflict and Resistance with Professor Mariel Aguilar-Støen.
MAS: I would like to start by asking if you can tell us a little bit about you?
AD: Ouuuhhh... I am a dirty skateboarder turned academic who now has a post-doctoral position at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo. Where I am proudly a part of the Rural Transformations group, which you (…)

May 16, 2024 After we are over with celebrating mothers and daughters and sisters and aunts and nieces days, do take out time to read these shockers - shocking details to the missing women and girls in our country.
Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra are the two states where the maximum number of girls and women disappeared from 2019 to 2021.
From Madhya Pradesh, 52,119 women in 2019, 52,357 in 2020 and 55,704 in 2021 went missing... In Maharashtra, 63,167 women in 2019, 58,735 in 2020 (…)

Hardly 48 hours after his so-called "clarification" during an interview with Network 18, and his solemn "vow" where he said "Main Hindu, Musalman nahi karunga yeh Mera sankalp hai, (I won’t play Hindu Muslim card; that is my vow)", Prime Minister Narendra Modi while attacking the Congress has again accused that the party had drawn a plan to "spend 15% of the budget on Muslims" while addressing an election rally in Maharashtra. He said the Congress has a plan to have two separate budgets, (…)

* Modern Indian Erotic Tale | Sumanta Banerjee
* Letter to PM Modi to investigate Adani, Ambani for corruption & attempt to influence elections | Binoy Viswam, MP
* Modi Govt facilitating militarisation of society | Subhash Gatade
* A Vision of Anarchist Love - Excerpts | Takamure Itsue

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 11, 2024
Israel’s Rafah offensive has huge risks for battered Palestinians, can trigger a wider crisis
Earlier this week there was hope when Hamas announced its acceptance for a ceasefire in Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and in turn for release of Israeli hostages as per the proposal from Egypt and Qatar, the movement by families of hostages in Israel responded by going full steam mobilising to pressure the Netanyahu Govt to accept a (…)

Despite all its fulminations against Muslims and the Moghul rule, the Modi government has adopted one ancient royal Moghul institution - the harem, where the nawabs and aristocrats used to maintain their numerous begums and mistresses. In the Modi government’s harem, among the variety of lovers, the present nawab’s most favourites are the, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Election Commission (EC). They are good in bed, (…)

Abstract: Does limit of our world set by language? Is language only valued as a secular activity in political inter-course? Action becomes meaningful so far as it is given meaning by going through universalism. Universalism and order are the brainchild of modern Enlightenment which is very often challenged by constitutive outside. Post-modernism attacks universalism and argues that every text can be interpreted in various ways.
Introduction:
‘I think according to words and not (…)

Binoy Viswam Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) 116, North Avenue New Delhi - 110 001 Mob: 9605766702 E-mail: binoyviswam55[at]gmail.com
To, Respected Shri Narendra Modi ji,
Date: 9th May, 2024
Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, Government of India
I write to you to bring your attention to a matter of urgent public importance regarding corruption, black money and the government’s stance on those accused of malpractices. It is fortunate that such matters are in your knowledge but (…)

If you constantly and repeatedly utter a lie it becomes truth. This is a historical truth and a practice adopted by those who generally have dictatorial ambitions. They practice it without bothering about the disastrous consequences at the end of the day.
Since the campaign for Election 2024 started heating up and as the polling is completed in three of the seven phases, our Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi is out inventing more and more untruths, twisting and distorting facts and (…)