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• A Child Speaks From Gaza | Sagari Chhabra

  14 October 2023, by Sagari Chhabra

  I am under a rubble, without water or bread; my mother and father are lying face down, dead. My little sisters, aged five and seven, have been taken as hostages and will soon be sent to jannat, heaven.
  I do not know how long I have to live, for no one has anything to give. The electricity has been cut off, all roads lead to the morgue, there is something in vogue, geo-politics of the rogue, playing out in a frenzy on a strip of land called Gaza, where in a spiral of violence Generals are (…)

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  Letter to the Editor - Why the Bash the Left, over 1984 killings following Khalistan agitation | Indu Agnihotri

  14 October 2023

  To The Editor, Mainstream Weekly
  I would like to mention that I was rather puzzled after reading the Interview by Joe Hayns with an old friend of mine, Pritam Singh, on The Khalistan Question. (in Mainstream Weekly, October 7, 2023)
  The interview dwells on the trajectory of the Khalistan agitation and responses within India and the diaspora.
  However, I was struck by the fact that for our friends in the now not so New Left, the organised left in India, in a way, still remains the (…)

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  Samyukt Kisan Morcha Press Statement on 8th October, 2023

  14 October 2023

  Samyukt Kisan Morcha
  Press Statement | 8th October, 2023
  SKM TO LAUNCH NATIONWIDE MASS PROTESTS AGAINST BJP-RSS LED MODI GOVT FOR ITS RENEWED ATTACK ON FARMERS’ MOVEMENT THROUGH NEWSCLICK FIR
  Delhi, 8th October, 2023: The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) is shocked to learn about the scurrilous and malafide allegations made against the historic SKM-led Farmers’ Movement at Delhi, in the FIR lodged by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police against media house Newsclick and several journalists. (…)

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  Radical Socialist Statement: Condemn Modi Government’s Attack on Journalists and Press Freedom

  14 October 2023

  [October 11, 2023]
  Radical Socialist strongly condemns the ghastly witch-hunting carried out by the Modi Government against journalists, associates, employees and contributors associated with NewsClick. On October 3, 2023 in one of the worst attacks on the independent media, the Delhi Police Special Cell raided their homes and offices across Delhi NCR and Mumbai. This was followed by the arrests of the NewsClick’s editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayasta and its Head of Human Resources Amit (…)

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  Withdraw the prosecution against Arundhati Roy & Showkat Ali - PUCL

  14 October 2023

  PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES
  332, Patpar Ganj, Opp. Anand Lok Apartments, (Gate No. 2), Mayur Vihar-I, Delhi 110 091
  Founder: Jayaprakash Narayan; Founding President: V M Tarkunde
  President: Ms. Kavita Srivastava (Rajasthan); General Secretary: V Suresh (Tamil Nadu); E.mails:, Please visit our website: www.pucl.org (…)

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  Why Doesn’t India Wage War Against Tax Havens? | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  14 October 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW __0__
  Black Money and Tax Havens (Updated Edition) R. Vaidyanathan
  Penguin Books ISBN: 9780143459446 Pages: xvi + 254; Price: Rs. 399 __0__
  This is an authoritative book on tax havens and why the superrich all around the world love them. When it comes to India, two unpleasant conclusions can be drawn. One, the Congress party, whatever it may now say about the Adanis, never showed any serious intent to bring back money stolen from India and stashed away abroad. Equally (…)

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  Photo: Lula da Silva, President of ABC Metalworkers Union Brazil in 1979

  14 October 2023
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  Music: The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and the Barenboim-Said Akademie

  14 October 2023

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  The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and the Barenboim-Said Akademie by West-Eastern Divan Orchestra https://youtu.be/JIdkGMHCXF4?si=L3MrNGSsla1xx7S2 Play
  Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 | Daniel Barenboim & the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (complete symphony) by DW Classical Music https://youtu.be/HljSXSm6v9M?si=Wv6Adp2QtuBd9whH

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  Audio: What happened after the Oslo accords handshake | Hanan Ashrawi and Yossi Beilin

  14 October 2023
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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Oct 7, 2023

  7 October 2023

  * Social and Economic Aspects of Caste Survey in Bihar | Arun Kumar
  * Aspects of 2nd Labour Commission Still Very Relevant | Bharat Dogra
  * Restructuring & Democratising Governance, Expanding Political Autonomy | C.R Bijoy
  * Video: Weaponising the Media, Delegitimizing Citizens | Ravish Kumar
  * The Death of Ivan Nikitich Smirnov | Victor Serge