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  Video: A flood-resilient Mumbai? | Subuhi Jiwani

  15 July 2023

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  A flood-resilient Mumbai? by Subuhi Jiwani https://youtu.be/hUvuKq67LTU

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  Music: Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou – In Memory Of Catherine Brady Éthiopiques

  15 July 2023

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, July 8, 2023

  7 July 2023

  * Vasant-Rajab Exemplary of Communal Harmony in Gujarat | Pandey & Rahman
  * Rajeev Lochan Das: a sanyasi rebel | Barik & Padhiari
  * Revolutionary Intellectuals | Issa Shivji
  * Paul Robeson: The singer who fought for justice and paid with his life

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 8, 2023

  7 July 2023

  The Narendra Modi-led BJP Government true to its politico-ideological commitments is currently pushing for a Uniform Civil Code in India possibly for electoral purposes. Almost all the opposition parties have misgivings as to the motives of the Govt, there is mistrust towards rushing in a uniform civil code. People of the Left, feminists, and progressives have mostly been opposing on some ground or the other the uniform civil code idea something that they used to support in the old days. The (…)

• Rajeev Lochan Das: a sanyasi rebel | Radhakanta Barik and Bijay Padhiari

  7 July 2023, by Radhakanta Barik

  Rajeev Lochan Mantri was born in 1839 and died in 1924 in a landed cultivating community in the village Nua Gaun (Kujanga). After he had a mastery over the Bhagvat he turned into Rajeev Lochan Das. He abandoned the village and family as a saint who entered into the domain of spiritualism. His spiritualism pushed him to the social reform movement. In the process, he turned into a sanyasi rebel against British rule. His reforms work in coastal Odisha broke the caste hierarchy. His creative (…)

• Why make a film on a Hindu epic in today’s polarised atmosphere in India | Justice Katju

  7 July 2023

  by Justice Katju
  These days there is a lot of controversy on the social media about the Hindi film Adi Purush, some saying it is an insult to Lord Ram, Hanumanji, the Ramayan, and Hinduism. Play
  Adipurush : Honest Review | Adipurush Movie Is The Biggest Insult Of Ramayan | Jay Naik by Jay Nayak Talks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eBSZcjJWSo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw3LGEZGFxs&pp=ygUKYWRpIHB1cnVzaA%3D%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzqyI3sdwSU (…)

• Exchange-ability in the Environment of Digitality | Shibaji Ray

  7 July 2023

  by Shibaji Ray *
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  As the Digital environment increasingly exerts an influence on the creation and dissemination of artwork, it accordingly reveals the inner workings of the Infrastructure behind such artistry. This has made for changes in Art Exhibition in online spaces where an artwork’s origin is also a measure of infrastructural protocols that place it as original or otherwise. Seeing however that infrastructure in its Digital domain is more an issue of dissemination (…)

• NCP Split Signals Pincer Attack of BJP on the Opposition | S N Sahu

  7 July 2023, by S N Sahu

  With Ajit Pawar taking oath as Deputy Chief Minister and eight other Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLAs as Cabinet Ministers in Maharashtra, both Prime Minister Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah nourish the fond hope that such inductions from NCP would bolster their political strategy, after splitting Shiv Sena in 2022, for winning most of the State’s 48 Lok Sabha seats in 2024 general elections. After Eknath Shinde took over as Chief Minister last year an aggressive campaign has (…)

• The Coming of the ‘Waves’ and the ‘Normalisation’ of the ‘Viral’ | Prothoma Rai Chaudhuri

  7 July 2023

  by Prothoma Rai Chaudhuri*
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  The Coronavirus has unleashed a pandemic whose consequences and implications go far beyond the parameters of the medical sciences. In creating global terror, in paralysing human civilisation, and in receding and letting the world breathe, quite literally, unmasked, the virus has been so much more than a micro-organism, invisible in itself but with conspicuous manifestations in societal settings. As the 2023 world has progressed towards a semblance of (…)

• Can The New National Research Foundation Redeem Ailing Indian science? | Soma Marla

  7 July 2023, by Soma S. Marla

  The Union Cabinet last week approved the establishment of the National Research Foundation (NRF) to promote Research and development in the country. The Rs 55 thousand crore funded scheme (through a period of five years) is aimed at fostering research and development in various national institutes, IITs, Universities, and local colleges with an emphasis on innovation. As part of the controversial National Educational Policy, the task is to reorganize the foundations of Indian science with (…)