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• America using Quad and G7 to achieve its goal to keep China away from Russia | Arun Srivastava

  28 May 2023, by Arun Srivastava

  by Arun Srivastava
  Probably this was for the first time that Narendra Modi’s self-eulogy did not find significant takers. On his return from Australia, taking a swipe at his opposition detractors, Modi reminisced about his pleasant triumph, how the incumbent PM as well as the former PM and the rest of the opposition leaders of Australia hailed him but the opposition leaders in India were opposing his move to inaugurate the newly constructed parliament house.
  In his own perception, he may (…)

• A plea to my western progressive friends who show understanding towards Putin’s regime in Russia | Boris Kagarlitsky

  28 May 2023

  by Boris Kagarlitsky
  A long-retired Russian military man was discussing current events by phone with a former colleague living in Ukraine. Both resented the war between the two recently fraternal countries and expressed the hope that this madness would soon end. A few days later, representatives of the special services raided the Russian. He did not give out any military secrets, and no one accused him of this. He was charged, however, with publicly discrediting the Armed Forces of the (…)

• I’m nobody! Who are you? | Emily Dickinson

  28 May 2023

  I’m Nobody! Who are you?
  Are you — Nobody — Too?
  Then there’s a pair of us!
  Don’t tell! they’d advertise — you know!
  How dreary — to be — Somebody!
  How public — like a Frog —
  To tell one’s name — the livelong June —
  To an admiring Bog!
  (Extract from "I’m nobody! Who are you?", in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, published by Little, Brown & Company, 1960)

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  Concerned citizens and civil society groups condemn misuse of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against scholars and activists

  28 May 2023

  PRESS RELEASE
  23.05.2023
  On 23rd May 2023, Over 500 concerned citizens, democratic rights’ activists across movements, women’s groups, students and academics condemned the misuse of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against scholars and activists raising constitutional issues and asking for the government’s accountability.
  The open letter states that ‘In the course of the last few months, several women scholars and activists have been summoned repeatedly, made to wait long (…)

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  Stop these unabated sewer & septic tanks deaths - Press Release from Safai Karmachari Andolan (May 24, 2023)

  28 May 2023

  Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA)
  PRESS RELEASE
  In 379 days 100 citizens killed in Sewer-septic tank cleaning,
  We Demand for a national apology from the Prime Minister
  It is the 379th day of Safai Karmachari Andolan’s nationwide
  “StopKillingUs" campaign demanding for government action to stop these unabated sewer & septic tanks deaths immediately
  New Delhi. 24-05-2023
  Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA) has been demanding a guarantee to life from Central and state governments for (…)

• Enabling Selective Illegality Behind the Façade of Democratic Functioning | Arun Kumar

  28 May 2023, by Arun Kumar

  Guest Editorial for Mainstream
  May 27, 2023
  The Supreme Court of India appointed Committee (Expert Committee (EC)) on the Adani-Hindenburg issue submitted its Report on May 9, 2023. It disappoints because it chose not to go deeper into issues that hold back the nation from achieving its full potential. It hides behind the technicality of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) following the currently applicable rules that prevent it from investigating the real issues raised in the (…)

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  A Man Extraordinary Who Coined ’Jai Hind’ | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  28 May 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
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  Abid Hasan Safrani: Netaji’s Comrade-in-Arms
  Compiled by: Ismat Mehdi and Shehbaz Safrani
  Orient BlackSwan
  Pages: xxv + 148; Price: Rs 895. __0__
  He was Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s sole Indian companion on his perilous 90-day submarine voyage from Europe to Asia in 1943. He was also the inventor of the INA’s – and subsequently free India’s – patriotic slogan: Jai Hind! If the Japanese had found a third seat for Netaji on what turned out to be his final air (…)

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  Armston-Sheret. Review of Jones, Ryan Tucker, Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling

  28 May 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Reviewed by Edward Armston-Sheret (Institute of Historical Research)
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  The Secret History of Soviet Whaling
  by Ryan Tucker Jones. Red Leviathan
  University of Chicago Press, 2022 Illustrations. xvii + 269 pp. (cloth) ISBN 978-0-226-62885-1
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  Red Leviathan, by Ryan Tucker Jones, is a well-researched and clearly written book of immense interest to scholars working in a variety of fields. Jones provides a detailed and insightful history of whaling in the Soviet (…)

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  Woodcut Print: In The Evening Tramcar (1953) | Chittoprasad

  28 May 2023
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  Music: My Darling Party Line | Bill Friedland and Joe Glazer

  28 May 2023

  Song ridicules the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939 and its support by American Communists. Performed by Bill Friedland and Joe Glazer. Play
  My Darling Party Line by Jack Ross https://youtu.be/Jl1r7E3e-ks