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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, May 27, 2023

  28 May 2023

  * The Siddaramaiah Phenomenon in Karnataka Politics | P. S. Jayaramu
  * History Is Calling Us! Unite In Struggle To Defend The Values Of The Freedom Struggle | Manoranjan Mohanty
  * M N Roy Memorial Lecture 2023
  * Tribute: Sheetla Singh | Bharat Dogra
  * Two ways to fight land subsidence | TamilSalvi Mari

• The Siddaramaiah Phenomenon in Karnataka Politics | P. S. Jayaramu

  28 May 2023

  by P. S. Jayaramu
  (23th May 2023)
  Siddaramaiah was recently sworn in as the Chief Minister of Karnataka for the second time. He is a pan-Karnataka mass leader from the kuruba, OBC community. He and the KPCC President D. K. Shiva Kumar led the Congress Party in an intense electoral battle with the BJP and registered an emphatic victory bagging 135 seats, with 43 percent vote share. The ruling BJP faced a humiliating defeat securing only 66 seats though its vote share remained intact at 36 (…)

• Lenin, Gandhi and M N Roy: Their relevance to shape a new world order | P.R. Ramanujam

  28 May 2023

  M. N. Roy Memorial Lecture 2023 was delivered by Prof. P.R. Ramanujam * on 28th April 2023 at the Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi. The full text follows
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  Karl Marx’s 11th thesis on Feuerbach states: “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it” [1]. The three leaders I have chosen to reflect on for today’s talk are all, in their own ways, philosophers and practitioners in changing the world on various grounds (…)

• History Is Calling Us! Unite In Struggle To Defend The Values Of The Freedom Struggle | Manoranjan Mohanty

  28 May 2023, by Manoranjan Mohanty

  Text of presentation by Manoranjan Mohanty, the Chair of the Reception Committee, Bharat Bachao, 11-12 March 2023, HK Surjeet Bhavan, New Delhi
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  ‘Save Democracy, Save Indian Constitution, Save India’
  Unite In Struggle To Defend The Values Of The Freedom Struggle:
  Swadhinata, Samata, Sanhati, Swaraj Freedom, Equality, Solidarity, Self-Rule
  Have Faith In History, Have Faith In People, Have Faith In Future
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  History is calling upon us all to awaken further and come (…)

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  Sheetla Singh—Editor Who Became A Legend in his Lifetime | Bharat Dogra

  28 May 2023, by Bharat Dogra

  Sheetla Singh, the great Hindi editor from Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, breathed his last on May 16. He was 93, and was on duty till the last day in his editorial office when he collapsed.
  Bringing out a small cooperative newspaper is not easy in the best of times, but it becomes more difficult when the editor has a tendency to frequently incur the wrath of the most powerful persons. Adding an important local factor, this task becomes even more difficult when the newspaper is coming out from (…)

• Arrogance of Power | Faraz Ahmad

  28 May 2023, by Faraz Ahmad

  Never in the history of independent India has any Prime Minister betrayed such arrogance of power as our dear Prime Minister Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi.
  Narendra Modi is the 14th Prime Minister of India since 14 August 1947. Opinion among political observers and analysts is divided on whether Indira Gandhi was arrogant or a victim of circumstances. Morarji Desai the fifth Prime Minister was haughty and disdainful of his critics who were innumerable but he never betrayed a blasé disregard (…)

• Malajahna was a Milestone Social Film on Rural Odissa | Radhakanta Barik

  28 May 2023, by Radhakanta Barik

  FILM REVIEW
  SOMETIMES, LITERATURE PRESENTS a tragic end, pregnant with a revolutionary message. Poverty, unemployment, and social conservatism intermingle to create a classic story. Malajahna (Dead Moon) is a 1965 Odiya film, written and directed by Nitai Palit, based on a novel of the same title written a hundred years ago by the Odiya novelist, Upendra Kishore Das. The book and the subsequent film reflect society of the time and truth is embedded in the narration of the story in the (…)

• What is Next for the Left-Wing Politics After the Congress Victory in Karnataka Assembly Election? | Bhabani Shankar Nayak

  28 May 2023

  by Bhabani Shankar Nayak *
  The defeat of BJP-led Hindutva politics in Karnataka is cause for celebration and hope for India’s secular constitutional democracy. The people of Karnataka rejected divisive and bigoted politics under Mr. Narendra Modi’s leadership. His campaign focused on polarization, while the Congress Party led a positive campaign. The Congress Party successfully consolidated its votes and organization, countering Hindutva propaganda with its five ’guarantees’ policy (…)

• Two ways to fight land subsidence | TamilSalvi Mari

  28 May 2023

  by TamilSalvi Mari *
  May 15, 2023
  Artificial recharge and deep soil mixing are two techniques showing promise in rescuing sinking cities.
  Cities all over the world are sinking [1].
  In Southeast Asia, the rapid growth of megacities has led to a pressing design problem that many governments are only just starting to address. Jakarta is considered the world’s fastest-sinking city [2], with some areas experiencing subsidence of up to 15 cm [3] per year.
  With 40 percent of the city (…)

• Reflections on the End of Work | Jeff Shantz

  28 May 2023

  From Green Anarchy #12, Spring 2003
  The meaning of work is once again on the agenda and gaining increasing relevance for contemporary struggles. Within movements such as ecology, work is being examined from novel and challenging perspectives and with a growing sense of urgency. Beyond prior theoretical understandings, either as the basis for identity (as in classical Marxism) or, conversely, as being of no relevance to social transformation, the category “jobs” is (re)opened as a crucial (…)