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  Statement by PUCL Maharashtra over Multiple Murders by RPF constable Chetan Singh!

  12 August 2023

  PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES PUCL Maharashtra State Unit President: Mihir Desai; General Secretary: Lara Jesani; Treasurer: Alex D’Mello Committee Members: Ammu Abraham, Dolphy D’souza, Ramesh Awasthi, Sandhya Gokhale Email: pucl.maharashtra[at]gmail.com
  August 7, 2023
  PUCL MAHARASHTRA STATEMENT ON THE MULTIPLE MURDERS BY RPF CONSTABLE CHETAN SINGH OF HIS SUPERIOR OFFICER AND THREE MUSLIM PASSENGERS WHILE ON DUTY ONBOARD THE JAIPUR-MUMBAI CENTRAL EXPRESS ON JULY 31, 2023
  Alarm (…)

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  Mughal Kings who Promoted Sanskrit, Hindu Epics | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  12 August 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
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  Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court
  by Audrey Truschke
  Penguin Books Mar/2016 Pages: xiv + 362; Price: Rs 450 ISBN: 9780143428909
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  It is not without reason that Emperor Akbar (who ruled from 1556 to 1605) was always described as Akbar the Great – till Hindutva ideologues decided that popular admiration for him should go and he must be seen as another Muslim king who Hindu-majority India would have probably preferred to do without. (…)

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  Review of Electrifying Mexico by Diana J. Montaño | Jaclyn A. Sumner

  12 August 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Reviewed by Jaclyn A. Sumner (Presbyterian College)
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  Electrifying Mexico:
  Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City
  by Diana J. Montaño
  University of Texas Press 2021. Illustrations. xiv + 373 pp. (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4773-2345-8
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  In Electrifying Mexico, Diana J. Montaño examines how government officials, engineers, citizens, and others worked to illuminate and power up Mexico City, the nation’s capital and emblem of progress. Montaño’s book is (…)

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  Caricature: Tribute to Gaddar | Jayaraj Vellur

  12 August 2023, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Photo: Singer Gaddar with writer Varavara Rao heading to a Jana Natya Mandali meeting in Hyderabad, India

  12 August 2023

  source: Balladeer, ‘people’s singer’, ex-Maoist ideologue: Telangana poet Gaddar dies at 77 by Sreenivas Janyala (Indian Express, August 6, 2023) | The photo from Indian Express is reproduced for non-commercial use

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  Cartoon: Hell Breaks Loose Over Flying Kiss in Parliament | Nala Ponnappa

  12 August 2023
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  Music: Dorothy Masuka - Nginje

  12 August 2023

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  Dorothy Masuka - Nginje (Official Audio) by Africori https://youtu.be/Yzvw9DWrH7A

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Aug 5, 2023

  5 August 2023

  * Militant capitalism, bad infinity, and the longing for total revolution | Dilip Simeon
  * Westinghouse reactors for Kovvada, AP Letter to Chair DAE | EAS Sarma
  * Illegal Migration Act in the UK | Sona Singh
  * Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War — The Role of Health Professionals | Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, et al
  * AIKS Press Release on Communal Violence in Haryana (Aug 3, 2023)

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 5, 2023

  5 August 2023

  Letter to the readers Aug 5, 2023
  It’s been three months that widespread ethnic violence in BJP-ruled Manipur has led to nearly 60 thousand people being rendered homeless and yet no discussion and stocktaking has taken place in the Parliament. It is very creditable that opposition parties jointly went on a delegation to Manipur and have been steadfast in their demand for a discussion in Parliament. The Supreme Court while hearing a petition on Manipur recently described the situation there (…)

• Militant capitalism, bad infinity, and the longing for total revolution | Dilip Simeon

  5 August 2023, by Dilip Simeon

  [marron]NB: This work-in-progress paper was a contribution to a conference hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Bergen, Norway. The conference( May 31-June 2, 2023) was titled 200 Years of Socialism: Revisiting the Old Dilemmas: First Annual Global Research Programme on Inequality Lecture [[https://gripinequality.org/event/the-grip-annual-lecture-2023]marron]
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  Abstract: The Bolshevik confiscation of the Russian revolution was indeed a ‘bifurcation point’, (…)