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  Review of Goldstein & Nost eds., The Nature of Data: Infrastructures, Environments, Politics

  25 February 2023

  Reviewed by Anne-Lise Boyer (University of Arizona) __0__
  The Nature of Data: Infrastructures, Environments, Politics
  by Jenny Goldstein, Eric Nost, eds.
  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 2022. ix + 328 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-1715-8; (paper), ISBN 978-1-4962-3250-2
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  At a time when the apparent dematerialization of economies, the hypertrophy of the digital sphere, the predominance of social networks, and the advancement of artificial intelligence value the (…)

• Message from Ukrainian left group - ’Sotsialnyi Rukh’ to the CPI-ML-Liberation

  25 February 2023

  (On February 16-17, a representative of ’Sotsialnyi Rukh’ —the Ukrainian left organization took part in the 11th Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation and delivered a message to: (1) to mobilise against Modi’s economic, diplomatic, and political cooperation with the state of Russia (2) to encourage the CPIML and the Indian Left to re-evaluate their positions on the Russian invasion and the Ukrainian resistance.)
  The transcript of the speech is given below. (…)

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  Cartoon: My Bad . . . I Hugged A Bull | Nala Ponnappa

  25 February 2023
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  Photo: Dispute between Serra Pelada gold mine worker and military police in Brazil (1986) | Sebastiao Salgado

  25 February 2023
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  Music: Michel Blavet: Flute Sonata in D minor op. 2/2, "La Vibray"

  25 February 2023

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  Michel Blavet: Flute Sonata in D minor op. 2/2, "La Vibray" by artpieful https://youtu.be/xuGJy_xenF0

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Feb 18, 2023

  17 February 2023

  * On the Legacies of Jawaharlal Nehru and Narendra Deva | Anil Nauriya
  * Paresh Chattopadhyay and his time | Pradip Baksi
  * Black days ahead if coal city does not change | Shatabdi Das
  * Low Budgets, Inequalities Impede Educational Progress | Bharat Dogra
  * Raid on BBC offices in India - Statements by the Editor’s Guild, CPI(M), CPI

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 18, 2023

  17 February 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 18, 2023
  Will Having More Makeup Artists Help?
  Starting Dec 2022 India assumed the rotating presidency of the G20 (group of 20 most industrialized countries in the world) and this sparked a big political marketing blitz inside the country. So where ever you go in New Delhi the city is plastered with huge billboards and posters with a logo for G20 on one side and on the other side it says ‘Mother of democracy to host G20’ in a supposed reference to (…)

• Rise and Fall of a ‘Growth King’ | Arup Kumar Sen

  17 February 2023, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Long back, two eminent Marxist thinkers, Harry Magdoff and Paul M Sweezy, observed how the massive growth of the financial sector, both absolutely and relative to the underlying productive sector, gave birth to speculative activity on an unprecedented scale. They also noted the dangers that lie ahead and the ineffectiveness of monetary authorities in this connection. (See Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy, Stagnation and the Financial Explosion, 1987)
  The recent financial crisis in India, (…)

• The Jawaharlal Nehru and Narendra Deva Legacies in the Socialist and National Movements in India: A Preliminary Exploration | Anil Nauriya

  17 February 2023, by Anil Nauriya

  Jawaharlal Nehru is an intrinsic part of the nationalist legacy of Indian freedom; nor can the Indian socialist legacy be defined or recalled by excluding him. And on inter-communal questions, which have a bearing on the very definition of India, Nehru’s record is par excellence and second only to that of Mahatma Gandhi.
  The massacre of unarmed civilians who had gathered for a protest meeting against the Rowlatt legislation at Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, took place on 13 April 1919. (…)

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  Paresh Chattopadhyay and his time | Pradip Baksi

  17 February 2023

  by Pradip Baksi
  Paresh Chattopadhyay/Pareshda was born in Rudrakar of undivided Bengal. That place is now located within the Shariatpur district of Bangladesh. He died in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  I had only one face to face encounter with him. It was sometime in 1966. I was then an enthusiastic supporter of the “Cultural Revolution” launched by Mao Zedong and some of his colleagues in Beijing and Shanghai. In those days Pareshda taught at the IIM, Calcutta and signed some of his (…)