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  Video: Press Conference on Memorandum to ECI on Free & Fair Elections in India

  9 September 2023

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  Press Conference on Memorandum to ECI on Free & Fair Elections by Anjali Bhardwaj https://youtu.be/dCVTqvoPMCw?si=QDxtRLKCwz8HQWV3

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  Music: Fight the Real Enemy - War by Sinead O’Connor

  9 September 2023

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  Audio: Lucas Chancel on Climate Inequalities, Polution Levels | 40min | 06/09/2023

  9 September 2023
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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Aug 26 & Sept 2, 2023

  25 August 2023

  * An Anatomy of Research | Arup Maharatna
  * Nuh Violence and its Aftermath | Arup Kumar Sen
  * The bogey of BJP’s new constituency: Pasmanda & Muslim women | Faraz Ahmad
  * The Environmental Holocaust In India | Kobad Ghandy
  * Art and Socialism | William Morris

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 26 & Sept 2, 2023

  25 August 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 26 & Sept 2, 2023
  The successful landing on the moon of the space probe Chandrayaan 3 is a great moment for India and we must celebrate this collective achievement of our scientists and engineers whose work made this possible. It was odd that the live TV feed of the final moments of Chandrayan 3’s landing as broadcast on TV or YouTube had the TV screen split into two on one half the face of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and on the other half the (…)

• An Anatomy of Research | Arup Maharatna

  25 August 2023, by Arup Maharatna

  The term, research, has of late come in tremendous vogue globally. Even a ninth standard school-goer nowadays refers pretty confidently to research as a distinct activity or pursuit. Indeed, it would hardly be possible to find a single literate person who has never used this term in day-to-day conversations and even casual gossips. A staunch admirer of the present times would surely view this as a clear testimony in support of the populist branding of the current age as ‘knowledge society’. (…)

• Revisiting Nehru’s Larger Vision on Space Exploration Assumes Greater Significance When India Leads the World in Placing Chandryan III on the South Pole of the Moon | S N Sahu

  25 August 2023

  On 23rd August 2023 India became the first country in the world after the Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) ensured the soft landing of Chandrayan-3, on the south pole of the moon. No other country ever did so. Earlier the USA, Russia, and China had achieved the distinction of carrying out soft landing only on the north pole of the moon. So the soft landing of Chandrayan-3 makes India the fourth country to get the enviable distinction of reaching the moon very successfully for a (…)

• Nuh Violence and its Aftermath | Arup Kumar Sen

  25 August 2023, by Arup Kumar Sen

  On 31st July, 2023, Nuh, the Muslim-majority district of Haryana, witnessed communal violence. A recent field report published by the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) on ‘Nuh Violence’ tried to unearth the roots of such violence. The Report observed: “In the days leading up to the tumultuous events in the town of Nuh, signs of unrest began to emerge. Videos featuring Hindutva sanghis like Monu Manesar and Bittu Bajrangi making hate speeches circulated on social media, (…)

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  National trade Unions stand up for PSU communications & engineering workers who made India’s space programme possible

  25 August 2023

  28th August 2023
  Press Release
  The Platform of Central Trade Unions and Independent Sectoral Federations/Associations salutes the team of Engineers, Scientists, Communications Experts and so on, who made Chandrayaan-3 possible. Their undaunted work has opened up myriad possibilities for India to forge ahead in many fields.
  As the story of Chandrayaan-3 unfolds, heart-rending stories of those who worked selflessly for the project emerge: Thousands of Engineers and Workers of Heavy (…)

• The Environmental Holocaust In India | Kobad Ghandy

  25 August 2023, by Kobad Ghandy

  The media in the last month have been full of the havoc caused due to excessive rain, flooding, landslides, etc In fact as Modi was delivering his address from the ramparts of the Red Fort a cloud burst washed away the Shiv Rawadi temple in Shimla — in an upmarket area — taking the lives of at least 12 people including children On that day Shimla witnessed landslides at two places — the other at Fagli, in which too at least 5 lives were lost.
  Meanwhile the Indian Express (Aug 16) reported (…)