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Painting: The Street (2013) by Fernando Botero
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Photo: Joseph Stalin’s statue was pulled down on the streets of Budapest during the Oct 1956 popular uprising
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Music: Bob Dylan - Motorpsycho Nightmare
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Animation Film : Mukund and Riaz by Nina Sabnani (2005)
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Table of Contents - Mainstream, Sept 9, 2023
9 September 2023* Text of 25th D S Borker Lecture by Justice AP Shah
* Editors’s Guild of India Report on Media’s Reportage of the Ethnic Violence in Manipur
* How folk remedies can fuel misinformation | Donois & Vally
* Photo: The Mother’s Hand (1966) by Antanas Sutkus -
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 9, 2023
9 September 2023Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 9, 2023
New Delhi is hosting the G-20 summit from 8 - 10 September, 2023, its preparations have drowned the city into a spectacle of garish, flashy, and kitsch. A big militarised ‘beautification’ for G20 in Delhi by erasing the labouring poor from public view, large-scale demolitions of slums & homeless shelters, or erecting screens to hide slums has what has happened. The city is nearly shut, pretty unlike such summits elsewhere. Roadside (…) -
My Vision of India: 2047 | Justice AP Shah (25th Borker Memorial Lecture)
9 September 2023* This is the text of the 25th D. S. Borker Memorial Lecture delivered by the author at the India International Centre, New Delhi on 24 August 2023. * D. S. Borker was a distinguished civil servant in whose memory the D S Borker Memorial Lecture Series on “My Vision of India: 2047” has been instituted. * Justice A. P. Shah is the former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court and former Chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India.
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My Vision of India: 2047
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As laws expand their reach in India, political freedoms shrink | Anushka Singh
9 September 2023Laws restricting basic freedoms may be made in the name of public order and national security, but they are often used against dissident voices.
Three bills were tabled, which dates back to the colonial era. The Bill to replace the IPC features 175 amended sections, eight new additions and the repeal of 22 sections, including the section on sedition.
The proposed legislation raises questions about whether colonial laws alone are responsible for the shrinking of democratic freedoms in (…) -
Court Handbook: A Step Forward for Gender Just Society | Ram Kumar Thakur, Kaushiki Arha
9 September 2023The Supreme Court of India under Chief Justice, Justice D. Y Chandrachud recently released a landmark document titled Handbook on Combating Gender Stereotypes. The handbook is supposed to serve as dossier of referral for judges and legal fraternity as a whole for confronting gendered stereotypes. The handbook opens us up to a progressive legal dialogue on acknowledging the essentialised and prejudiced understanding of gender in both latent and manifest terms. The document places the onus of (…)
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Promote communal harmony, instead of abetting its deterioration - Letter to the Chief Minister of Haryana | Binoy Viswam
9 September 2023, by Binoy ViswamBinoy Viswam Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) 116, North Avenue New Delhi - 110 001 Mob: 9605766702 E-mail: binoyviswam55[at]gmail.com
To, Shri Manohar Lal Khattar, Chief Minister, Government of Haryana
Date: 28th August, 2023
Respected Shri Manohar Lal Khattar Ji,
I write to you to raise my serious concerns regarding the prevailing situation in certain districts of Haryana and your government’s handling of the it. Communal riots erupted in Haryana following the announcement of (…)