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  Review of The Rafale Deal: Flying Lies? by Ravi Nair and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta | Shubham Sharma

  13 May 2023

  Book Review:
  by Shubham Sharma
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  The Rafale Deal: Flying Lies? The Role of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India’s Biggest Defence Scandal
  by Ravi Nair and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
  2022. pp 532 HB: Rs 795
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  Until recently, India, like other Western-capitalist countries, lacked a robust domestic ‘military-industrial complex’ (MIC). It could be defined as the presence of a defence procurement mechanism which involves a transactional nexus between private group(s) that (…)

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  Newton’s Review of Melody Jue, Rafico Ruiz, eds., Saturation: An Elemental Politics

  13 May 2023

  BOOK REVIEW:
  Reviewed by Samm Newton (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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  Saturation: An Elemental Politics
  Melody Jue, Rafico Ruiz, eds.
  Duke University Press
  2021. xii + 332 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4780-1304-4 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-1146-0
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  Saturation: An Elemental Politics, edited by Melody Jue and Rafico Ruiz, is a rich and varied collection of essays that offers a multidisciplinary foray into how the concept of saturati can be employed as an interpretive lens (…)

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  Photo: Miriam Makeba, Kenneth Kaunda, Dorothy Masuka and Harry Belafonte (1963)

  13 May 2023

  Photo of Miriam Makeba, Kenneth Kaunda, Dorothy Masuka and Harry Belafonte in Nairobi, Kenya attending the Independence celebrations of that country. December, 1963

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  Sexual Harrasment of Women Wrestlers - NFIW Letter to the Speaker Lok Sabha to Suspend the MP involved

  13 May 2023

  NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDIAN WOMEN 1002, Ansal Bhawan, 16, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi - 110 001 Tele : 011-23319541 | E-mail : nfiwdelhi[at]gmail.com
  President : Aruna Roy General Secretary : Annie Raja
  To, Date: 08/05/2023
  Shri. Om Birla Hon’ble Speaker of Lok Sabha, Parliament of India New Delhi
  Sub: SUSPENSION OF BRIJ BHUSHAN SHARAN SINGH, MP
  Honourable Sir,
  The NFIW would like to draw your attention to a very serious issue connected with Mr Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, (…)

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  Painting: Indian Village Rajasthan, 1977 | Françoise Gilot

  13 May 2023
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  Audio: Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish in QUOTOMANIA 324

  13 May 2023

  Palestinian Mahmoud Darwish was born in al-Birwa in Galilee, a village that was occupied and later razed by the Israeli army. Because they had missed the official Israeli census, Darwish and his family were considered “internal refugees” or “present-absent aliens.”

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  Music: Mais Que Nada · Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66

  13 May 2023

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  Mais Que Nada by Sergio Mendes - Topic https://youtu.be/30IePC8c99g

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Apr 29 & May 6, 2023

  29 April 2023

  * Re-imagining Social Justice Politics in India Today | K Srinivasulu
  * Struggle of Women Wrestlers Against Sexual Harassment Needs Wider Support | Bharat Dogra [13383]
  * Rahul, a hero in the fight against Modi’s communal politics | Radhakanta Barik
  * Sudan: Violence between army and militia is destroying Africa | Paul Jackson

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Apr 29 & May 6, 2023

  29 April 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 29, & May 6 2023
  Brazen Abuse of Powers to Protect Those on the Right Side of the Fence
  There is a recurring cycle of immunity and protection enjoyed by people seen to be on the right side of the ruling party & Government circles. So, those politico-religious figures who delivered hateful sermons and attempted to instigate violence in the past few years, have not been or hardly been moved against, despite repeated calls from civil society. (…)

• Re-imagining Social Justice Politics in India Today: Idea, Promise and Practice | K Srinivasulu

  29 April 2023, by Karli Srinivasulu

  With the formation of the All India Federation for Social Justice (AIFSJ) at the initiative of DMK Chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, MK Stalin last year and convening of its conference in the first week of April 2023 in Chennai and the promise of regular conferences of the forum, the idea of Social Justice seems to have come back to the centre of Indian social, political and electoral discourse. Though what social justice means and what its character would be and ought to be in the (…)