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  Post Card from Orleans with Indian workers/soldiers, who served in the British Indian army that fought in France during World War I. (postmarked 1915)

  23 March 2024

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  Audio: Isaac Deutscher, "Lenin’s Childhood" | Gonzalo Pozo talking of Deutscher

  23 March 2024
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  An International Affair: Hindu Nationalism and the U.S. Right with Prachi Patankar Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 2

  23 March 2024
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  Music: Boubacar Traoré - Dounia Tabolo

  23 March 2024

  bluesman malien Boubacar Traoré s’est rendu à Lafayette in Louisiana

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, March 16, 2024

  15 March 2024

  * CAA: A Tool of Hinduisation of Our Polity | Arup Kumar Sen
  * CAA-2019 should be repealed | S G Vombatkere
  * Should the government be involved in religious affairs? | Bajpai, Bandarupalli, Pandey
  * CNDP Statement to Mark the Passing Away of Admiral Laxminarayan Ramdas
  * Give It Away | David Graeber

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 16, 2024

  15 March 2024

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 16, 2024
  Four years after having passed the Citizenship Amendment Act the Home Ministry has now officially notified the CAA operational rules 2024 (on March 11, 2024). This contentious law has divided public opinion since it violates a fundamental constitutional principle of equality for all by overtly bringing in religion as a criteria to determine or deny citizenship to certain people. Protests have begun over the timing of this measure that was (…)

• NPR-NRC-CAA – A Detailed Review CAA-2019 should be repealed | S.G.Vombatkere

  15 March 2024, by S G Vombatkere

  March 15, 2024
  The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA, hereinafter), amended the Citizenship Act 1955 (CA1955, hereinafter). However, an Act can only be implemented after the associated Rules are notified. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) notified the Citizenship Amendment Rules 2024 (CAR2024, hereinafter) on 11.3.2024, 51-months later.
  Not unjustifiably, notifying CAR2024 when general elections are about to be announced, is being viewed as politically motivated. However, leaving (…)

• CAA: A Tool of Hinduisation of Our Polity | Arup Kumar Sen

  15 March 2024, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Just days before the announcement of Lok Sabha elections, the Union Home Ministry notified the Citizenship Amendment Rules, 2024 ( on March 11, 2024) to enable implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), passed by the Parliament in 2019. It should be noted in this connection that passing of the CAA triggered nationwide protests in 2019-20 during which more than 100 people reportedly died in police firings and related violence. The Amendment was challenged before the Supreme Court (…)

• Anxiety in Modi Camp Over Rahul Yatra But Will He Take On BJP in Amethi | Faraz Ahmad

  15 March 2024, by Faraz Ahmad

  It is evident to the entire world, including the ruling Bharartiya Janata Party(BJP) and its super leader Prime Minister Narendra Modi, that Rahul Gandhi’s mass contact exercise across the breadth of India from North East to the West, including Gujarat, has caused a stir among a large section of population and infused a new spirit in the demoralised cadres of the Congress party.
  Whether this will translate into votes and seats for Rahul’s Congress party is still in the realm of (…)

• Why should the government be involved in religious affairs? | Ayush Bajpai, Vishnu Bandarupalli, Sandeep Pandey

  15 March 2024, by Sandeep Pandey

  In the majority decision (4-3) in Abhiram Singh v. C.D. Commachen (Dead) By Legal Representatives, the Supreme Court stated that the ethos and secular character of our political system must be taken into consideration during the electoral process. In line with the secular nature of the Indian State, Section 123(3) of the Representation of the People Act has prevented the interference of religions and religious beliefs with the secular activity of elections by prohibiting anyone from seeking (…)