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• Mule accounts malpractices impede booming IPOs growth: SEBI to curb misdemeanor | Nand L. Dhameja, Manish Dhameja, Ridhi Khatter

  9 March 2024

  3/2/24
  Initial public offer (IPO) is a process which allows a company to raise funds from public for its growth and expansion. As the term stands it is the initial process of raising funds from the public as before this process the company would have been dependent upon promoters’ or private funds.
  As such, companies having grown by relying on the resources provided by the founders, their friends and families and relatives; but still need more funds to get bigger, they undertake a (…)

• Some Aspects of the Southern Question (1926) | Antonio Gramsci

  9 March 2024

  Unfinished, October 1926
  Text from Antonio Gramsci "Selections from political-writings (1921-1926)", translated and edited by Quintin Hoare (Lawrence and Wishart, London 1978). Transcribed to the www with the kind permission of Quintin Hoare.
  These notes were initially stimulated by the publication of an article on the Southern question by "Ulenspiegel" in the 18 September issue of the journal Quarto Stato, and by the somewhat comical editorial presentation which preceded it. (…)

• Achieving the Two-State Solution in the Wake of Gaza War| Jeffrey D. Sachs & Sybil Fares

  9 March 2024

  Peace can come through the immediate implementation of the two-state solution, making the admission of Palestine to the United Nations the starting point, not the ending point.

• Political Polarization on Citizen Amendment Act and Campaign Strategies in Delhi Assembly Elections, 2020 | V.K. Sridhar

  9 March 2024

  Political Polarisation denotes a pronounced division of ideologies among opposing factions, accompanied by heightened partisanship and a breakdown in cross-party collaboration. The escalating religious polarisation in India’s election campaigns is characterised by divisive rhetoric and the integration of religion and identity politics. Propelled by the intricacies of caste-community-region dynamics, such polarisation impedes the mobilisation of these communities. When we examine the 2020 (…)

• Sociological Reflections on the Movie “12th Fail” - Figuring out Indian Society Through Cinema | Sanjiv Kumar

  9 March 2024

  Abstract
  This film is centered around the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) journey of the protagonist, Vikrant Massey aka Manoj Kumar Sharma. Manoj Kumar Sharma’s extraordinary journey is masked by complex social realities. This article will attempt to critically explore the main character and the “hidden privileges” that allowed him to complete his journey, which the filmmaker conveniently ignores. This article is an attempt to investigate how his unique situations, support (…)

• Hey Ram | Sukumaran C.V.

  9 March 2024, by Sukumaran C.V.

  When He was summoned to live in the new abode, Lord Ram felt being out of place; He felt He is an odd one out among gods. The gods in India have age-old homes, Which provide antique ambience In which they dwell comfortably. The new temple into which the Lord Was summoned to dwell makes Him Giddy as He is made anachronic.
  He feels loneliness in the modern abode, And talks Himself as follows: "There was a man who used to chant Hey Ram; he chanted Hey Ram Even when he was shot to death. He (…)

• Quit WTO for crop MSPs And Food security | Soma Marla

  9 March 2024, by Soma S. Marla

  In early March the price of Kinnow fruit at Gaddiannaram fruit market, Hyderabad is Rs 40 a Kilogram. While oranges and apples are increasingly dumped into Indian markets from California or New Zealand, small farmers in Punjab are distressed for not receiving even half the cost of production. Today, WTO has become a major barrier for both crop MSPs and Public Stock Holding (cheap ration under PDS). This is the outcome of India’s entry into WTO nearly three decades back. After nearly three (…)

• Hindu nationalism poses a threat to democratic politics in India and Nepal | Dhruv Rana, Laabhesh Thapa & Sandeep Pandey

  9 March 2024, by Sandeep Pandey

  In India, we can observe how nationalism is a political ideology that holds devotion to one’s country as paramount to all other concerns. It was not until the late 18th century that nationalism became a widely acknowledged sentiment shaping public and private life and one of the great, if not the greatest, single determining factors of modern history, though people have always felt a solid connection to their native countries, their parents, and their governments. When the British ruled (…)

• War on Gaza: Millions of anti-war protestors on the streets of Europe and the US are the hope for the future | Arundhati Roy

  9 March 2024

  [marron]Statement by Arundhati Roy at the meeting of Working People Against Apartheid and Genocide in Gaza, at the Press Club, New Delhi, on March 7, 2024marron]
  The richest, most powerful countries in the western world, those who believe themselves to be the keepers of the flame of the modern world’s commitment to democracy and human rights, are openly financing and applauding Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The Gaza strip has been turned into a concentration camp. Those who have not already (…)

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  PIPFPD urges resumption of comprehensive dialogue between India and Pakistan | March 4, 2024

  9 March 2024

  Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace & Democracy
  Press Statement Released on the 4th March, 2024
  Peoples’ Forum urges for resumption of comprehensive dialogue between India and Pakistan
  The Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) warmly welcomes the suggestion that New Delhi and Islamabad resume the dialogue on outstanding differences and potential fields of cooperation between them. PIPFPD welcomes the dialogue offer by the Pakistani government and (…)