Mainstream Weekly(Text of an open letter to IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Sri Lanka by the Sweden-based Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT))
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We are writing this open letter to you to express our concerns on the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) approach to the ongoing negotiation of financial assistance to Sri Lanka.
As you have repeatedly noted, the world is currently facing multiple and interlinked crises that are greater, deeper, (…)
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ICRICT open letter to IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Financial Assistance to Sri Lanka
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Milan Kundera obituary - Influential Czech-born author of the bestselling novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Kate Webb
15 July 2023by Kate Webb
12 July 2023
In December 1968, a plane carrying Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes touched down in Prague. The two authors had come to show solidarity with Czechoslovakia’s writers and to discuss the year’s historic events: how the hopes of Alexander Dubcek’s Prague Spring had ebbed into the interminable autumn of the Soviet patriarch.
Their host was the Czech novelist and essayist Milan Kundera, who has died aged 94. Mindful of the need to talk freely, Kundera took (…) -
Platform of the 46 - 1923 Statement from Top Bolsheviks criticisng Russian Communist Party economic policy & calling for inner party democracy
15 July 2023The Platform of the 46
A week after Leon Trotsky had sent his letter to the Central Committee 46 prominent Bolsheviks, some of whom occupied leading posts in economic management, presented their own criticism of the economic and inner-Party policy of the Party leadership of Kamenev, Zinoviev, Stalin, Rykov and Tomsky. This statement of opposition which became known as ‘The Platform of the 46’ was submitted to the Politburo on October 15, 1923, after being circulated among a number of Party (…) -
PUCL Statement on Manipur Government Criminalising Human Rights Work - FIR Against NFIW fact-Finding Team
15 July 2023PEOPLE’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
10th July, 2023
PUCL Demands from the Manipur Government:
• Stop Criminalising Human Rights Work! Respect the fundamental rights of citizens to conduct Fact Finding (…) -
Appeal for Donations for Victims of Violence and Displacement in Manipur | NFIW
15 July 2023National Federation of Indian Women
Friends,
A three-member delegation of NFIW visited the crisis gripped state of Manipur to conduct a fact-finding exercise. People of all communities have grossly and adversely been affected by the violence since 3rd of May 2023.
There has been a massive loss of life and property. As with any crisis, women and children are the first and worst victims of violence. The government for all practical purposes seems to have withdrawn from their (…) -
Credible Fantasies | T Vijeyendra
15 July 2023T Vijayendra has just published a new book of short stories with a title, ‘Credible Fantasies’. The blurb reads:
‘The central idea of the fantasies presented here is to imagine a future for my young friends with ‘Green Jobs’, that is, jobs that help in restoring ecology and creating equity among humans. It is a very difficult proposition under the present circumstances and hence I refer to them as ‘fantasies’.
‘However, conditions are changing fast and soon it will be possible for (…) -
Sri Lanka’s natural beauty amid fractures | M.R. Narayan Swamy
15 July 2023, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
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Upon a Sleepless Isle: Travels in Sri Lanka by Bus, Cycle and Trishaw
by Andrew Fidel Fernando
Picador India (PP, 2023), Pages: 267; Price: Rs 499 __0__
Call it an irony but tourists, primarily from the West, never stopped exploring Sri Lanka all through the period the country was caught up in one of the longest running and blood-soaked ethnic conflicts. The reason was simple. The battle for a Tamil homeland was largely confined to the northern and eastern (…) -
Bhagat’s Review of Toxic Immanence by Livia Monnet
15 July 2023Reviewed by Raina Bhagat (Northwestern University)
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Toxic Immanence:
Decolonizing Nuclear Legacies and Futures
by Livia Monnet
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press 2022. 472 pp. ISBN 978-0-228-01136-1
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Toxic Immanence: Decolonizing Nuclear Legacies and Futures is an edited collection with an ambitious scope, making impressive strides across both disciplines and genres to sketch out numerous paths toward the unequivocal need for the abolition of nuclear (…) -
Caricature Tribute to Milan Kundera | Jayaraj Vellur
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Video: Electrical experiments with plants that count and communicate | Greg Gage
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Electrical experiments with plants that count and communicate | Greg Gage by TED https://youtu.be/pvBlSFVmoaw