Mainstream WeeklySOME IMPORTANT SOCIAL movements rode the back of the national freedom movement in India, beginning in the nineteenth century. These movements helped construct social collectives. The most important collectives were the Dalit fronts and the backward caste fronts. Although other collectives were also formed, like for women, tribals and Muslims, the more powerful ones were the Dalit and Backward Caste groupings. These fronts got strengthened with the spread of education and with their (…)
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Should Khandayats Be Called Backward Again? | Radhakanta Barik
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Pakistan: Aurat March 2023 keeps going despite fierce social, religious and political opposition | Abdullah Zahid
8 April 2023by Abdullah Zahid / Sapan News
04 April 2023
Through Aurat March and other forms of activism, Pakistani women are calling for gender equality, climate action and economic policies that benefit all. But their battle is up against fierce social, religious and political opposition.
“We are constantly sold the narrative that our country is impoverished and that the system is broken,” says cultural activist Sheema Kermani.
The longtime feminist activist and trained classical dancer, whose (…) -
Release of our colleague Evan Gershkovich! A letter from Russian independent journalists
8 April 2023Медиазона
4 April 2023
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) is accusing The Wall Street Journal correspondent, Evan Gershkovich, of espionage. He is currently being held in Lefortovo prison in Moscow. Independent journalists from Russia and other countries believe that this is a politically motivated case and demand Gershkovich’s immediate release. Together with TV Rain, Meduza, and Echo of Moscow, Mediazona is publishing this open letter.
If you are a journalist and wish to sign (…) -
How low-paid workers in Madagascar power French tech’s AI ambitions | Clément Le Ludec & Maxime Cornet
8 April 2023by Clément Le Ludec & Maxime Cornet *
March 30, 2023
A January 2023 investigation by Time magazine revealed that Kenyan workers paid less than US$2 an hour were given the job of trying to ensure that the data used to train the AI platform ChatGPT was free from discriminatory content.
AI models need to be trained, with the input of an enormous critical mass of data, for them to learn to recognise and interact with the human environment. These inputs need to be collected, sorted, (…) -
Arbitrary suspension of social media accounts of several journalists and media organisations | Statement by Editors Guild (April 3, 2023) in Punjab
8 April 2023The Editors Guild of India
PRESS STATEMENT
3rd April, 2023
The Editors Guild of India is deeply concerned about the arbitrary suspension of social media accounts of several journalists and media organisations in Punjab over the last few days. The official Twitter account of BBC Punjabi was withheld on March 27, though it was restored later in the day. Similarly, social media accounts of a senior staffer at the Indian Express as well as some other prominent journalists were also (…) -
Statement by Concerned Historians on the Recent Changes Made by the NCERT in School Textbooks (April 7, 2023)
8 April 2023Date: 07.04.2023
The recent decision of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to drop entire chapters from the history textbooks for class 12, as well as from other classes and to delete statements from other textbooks is a matter of deep concern. Using the period of the pandemic-cum-lockdowns to argue that there was a need to lighten the load of the curriculum, the NCERT initiated a contentious process of dropping topics like the history of the Mughal courts, (…) -
Reverse Deletions in NCERT Text Books - Statement from CPI (M)
8 April 2023Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Date: April 6, 2023
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the efforts by the government to change the syllabus of history through the NCERT text books.
The NCERT chief’s specious argument that this has been done to rationalize the syllabus and reduce the burden on the students is totally misleading and is part of a (…) -
Solidarity with the ongoing struggle for justice & accountability in Joshimath! - Statement by Campaign To Defend Nature And People
8 April 2023Not natural but development policy-induced disasters in the Himalaya!
Solidarity with the ongoing struggle for justice and accountability in Joshimath!
A call for a campaign to defend nature and people from destructive development!
Towards an ecosystem-based human rights approach to development!
We as representatives of diverse social and environmental groups from across the country express grief and concern for the people of Joshimath, facing forced displacement from their homes in (…) -
Maruti Suzuki Workers’ Struggle: Inside Stories | Deepti Priya Mehrotra
8 April 2023, by Deepti Priya MehrotraBOOK REVIEW
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Japanese Management, Indian Resistance: The Struggles of the Maruti Suzuki Workers By Anjali Deshpande and Nandita Haksar
Speaking Tiger, Harper Collins https://speakingtigerbooks.com/ 2023 / 366 pages ISBN-10 : 9354474446 | ISBN-13 : 978-9354474446 __0__
Real Stories: Behind the scenes
Maruti Suzuki workers have been in the public eye, largely due to the death of a manager, on 18 July 2012. Worker-management tension seemed to snowball (…) -
The Art of Collecting Priceless Books | M.R. Narayan Swamy
8 April 2023BOOK REVIEW The Book Beautiful: A Memoir of Collecting Rare and Fine Books
by Pradeep Sebastian
Hachette India Pages: 306; Price: Rs 699
Bengaluru-based Pradeep Sebastian would have remained a simple bibliophile who venerated bookshops all his life until he began came across books the likes of which he had never seen or handled earlier. And so was born, around 2015, a no-doubt costly but immensely satisfying hobby of chasing and collecting rare and fine books in a (…)