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  Cartoon: This book is empty! | Nala Ponnappa

  4 November 2023
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  Video: Easily Overlooked Dangers of a Soft Tyranny by Hartosh Singh Bal (2023 Shorenstein Journalism Award acceptance speech)

  4 November 2023

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  2023 Shorenstein Journalism Award | Hartosh Singh Bal | Easily Overlooked Dangers of a Soft Tyranny by Stanford APARC https://youtu.be/m0Z1enNfgM0?si=o6VzrCrGzMHBEmWO

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  Music: Holm (A Dream) - Emel Mathlouthi

  4 November 2023

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  E M E L - Holm (A Dream) (Official Video) by E M E L - آمال مثلوثي https://youtu.be/d2SNX3bfYKw?si=81l_ytCqDY8OeC1E
  Video shot by Emel Mathlouthi on phone.
  English translation of the Arabic lyrics:
  If I could close my eyes and the dreams take me by the hand, I would rise and fly in a new sky and I will forget my sorrows.
  If I could travel in my imagination, I would build palaces and nights where love and my hopes can grow and we will erase the pain ..
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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Oct 21 & 28, 2023

  21 October 2023

  * Assault on the Media: Subversion of Democracy | Arup Kumar Sen
  * Mizoram and the upcoming November 2023 state polls | Papri Sri Raman
  * Diaspora Dynamics: India’s Global Footprint | S N Tripathy
  * Nandini Satpathy: a moderniser who changed the political map of Odisha | Radhakanta Barik

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 21 & Oct 28, 2023

  21 October 2023

  Israel’s War on Gaza is laden with risks and implications for our hyperconnected world. The October 7 attacks by Hamas inside Israel and the subsequent military operation by the Israelis on Gaza sent a wave of (pro-Modi Government, pro-right wing) journalists to Israel from big TV networks in India and they have over the past week been broadcasting high-decibel Israeli propaganda to TV viewers in India. None of these Indian journalists have gone into the Palestinian territories of Gaza and (…)

• Assault on the Media: Subversion of Democracy | Arup Kumar Sen

  21 October 2023, by Arup Kumar Sen

  In his address on a public occasion in March 2023, the chief justice of India, D Y Chandrachud, argued: The media is the fourth pillar in the conception of the State, and thus an integral component of democracy. A functional and healthy democracy must encourage the development of journalism as an institution that can ask difficult questions to the establishment – or as it is commonly known, “speak truth to power” …The press must remain free if a country is to remain a democracy. (See The (…)

• Ethnicity Will Matter In Mizoram Polls | Papri Sri Raman

  21 October 2023, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  FIVE STATES IN India will hold elections in November to select their governments, just six months before the country heads to general elections to decide on the colour of the Union government. The smallest assembly among these States is Mizoram’s, with 40 seats. So, let us begin our overview with this north-eastern State, south of strife-torn Manipur. To understand Mizoram, we cannot ignore all that happens in Manipur, nor can we discount the fact that Mizoram is a State with two (…)

• Diaspora Dynamics: India’s Global Footprint | S N Tripathy

  21 October 2023, by S N Tripathy

  The evolving political influence of the Indian diaspora in the global context signifies a remarkable transformation in India’s approach towards its overseas citizens. Traditionally, India maintained a non-interference policy in other countries’ internal affairs, treating its diaspora as citizens of their host nations. However, this perspective has undergone a significant shift, with the diaspora now recognized as a strategic asset for India’s economic and diplomatic interests. This (…)

• Nandini Satpathy: a moderniser who changed the political map of Odisha | Radhakanta Barik

  21 October 2023, by Radhakanta Barik

  Nandini was born into an illustrious family in Odisha. It was a family of intellectuals and writers. Before independence, this sort of family was the rarest of rare ones in Odisha. Her father and other uncles were writers. All of them were humanists and wrote of the common man’s sufferings. Her father Kalindi Panigrahi perhaps was an outstanding writer. He was a story writer and novelist and poet. He has written poems for children to elder people. His novel Matir Manish is a unique one. It (…)

• The Average Indian Farmer is turning more of a Laborer today - Situation Assessment Surveys of Agricultural Households | S S Sangwan

  21 October 2023

  The composition of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in India has undergone continuous changes wherein the share of agriculture especially crop production has been continuously reduced from 42 % in 1970-71 to about 23 % in 2000-01 to about 14 % in 2020-21; whereas, the share of crop production in GDP has come down to around 10% ((GOI, 2021a). These changes may have percolated in the sources of personal Income of various sections of the society, especially Agricultural Households (AHHs). The (…)