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  PUCL Demands Probe Into The Role UP Police in killing of Atiq & Ashraf Ahmed (April 19, 2023)

  22 April 2023

  PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES 332, Patpar Ganj, Opposite Anand Lok Apartments, Mayur Vihar I, Delhi 110 091 Founder: Jayaprakash Narayan; Founding President: V M Tarkunde President: Ravi Kiran Jain; General Secretary: Dr. V. Suresh
  E.mail: puclnat[at]gmail.com& pucl.natgensec[at]gmail.com
  19.04.2023
  Stop Encounter Killings in UP: End State lawlessness! Doubts arise about Complicity of UP Police in killing of Atiq & Ashraf Ahmed: Questions to be answered by UP Police.
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  Report on Jahangirpuri Communal Incident, Delhi, 2022 alleges bias | PUDR, April 17, 2023

  22 April 2023

  Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR)
  17 April 2023
  Release of PUDR’s Report
  PUDR report on Jahangirpuri Communal Incident, Delhi, 2022 alleges bias against Muslims
  One year has passed since the communal incident at Jahangirpuri on Hanuman Jayanti. PUDR is releasing a report ‘Probing the Jahangirpuri Communal Incident, Delhi, 2022: Context, Aftermath, Police Investigation & Findings’. The key finding of the report is that the investigations and prosecution case is seeking to (…)

• The problem with artificial intelligence? It’s neither artificial nor intelligent | Evgeny Morozov

  22 April 2023

  by Evgeny Morozov *
  Let’s retire this hackneyed term: while ChatGPT is good at pattern-matching, the human mind does so much more
  Elon Musk and Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak have recently signed a letter calling for a six-month moratorium on the development of AI systems. The goal is to give society time to adapt to what the signatories describe as an “AI summer”, which they believe will ultimately benefit humanity, as long as the right guardrails are put in place. These guardrails (…)

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  The Rainbow that was Homi J Bhabha | Papri Sri Raman

  22 April 2023, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  BOOK REVIEW:
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  Let Us Talk About Bhabha by S P K Gupta
  Pages 818 e-book price in India Rs 50 Evelyn Publishers ISBN 81-90004175
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  Homi Jehangir Bhabha has always been a mysterious character in science history.
  The man died almost 60 years ago and had lived for more than fifty years before that. In the land of his birth, he is revered almost like a god, especially by the communal, right-wing, jingoist lot for he is ‘the father of India’s nuclear programme’, the man who (…)

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  Etching: Stone Breaker, Le Raincy (1881) by Georges Seurat

  22 April 2023
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  Video: The Baloons - 1985 animation film | B.R.Shendge

  22 April 2023

  B.R.Shendge Year: 1985

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  Music: Noori & His Dorpa Band - Al Amal (Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan’s Red Sea Coast)

  22 April 2023

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  Noori & His Dorpa Band — Al Amal (Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan’s Red Sea Coast) by Ostinato Records https://youtu.be/IgCl1UnRgAg

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Apr 15, 2023

  15 April 2023

  * Philosophy of Neo-Liberal Education | Arup Maharatna
  * Looking into the Other Side of Merit | Gyan Prakash
  * The plight of ad hoc teachers at Delhi University | Garima Mani Tripathi
  * Renamed Booker Prize | Devaki Jain
  * A splendid dream interrupted | Jawed Naqvi

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Apr 15, 2023

  15 April 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 15, 2023
  The return to power of the Taliban in Afghanistan in August 2021 led to a wave of outward migration, a humanitarian crisis & also the basic civil rights of Afghans have been ditched for a crude religious code determining what is considered right or wrong. Despite all the failings, the twenty-year effort at promoting education for girls and women and opening women’s participation in the economy had had some success – the number of girls (…)

• What’s wrong in a neoliberal philosophy of education? | Arup Maharatna

  15 April 2023

  by Arup Maharatna *
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  The popular notion of democracy, as we know and see it, construes inter alias that the entire adult population are impeccably equal in their right or entitlement to electing/selecting the government. But it should not be forgotten that this perfect equality of electoral right does not stem from a notion that all people are potentially equal in terms of intrinsic intellectual capabilities, talents, imaginativeness, and innate affinities. It is bountifully evident and (…)