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• CPI(ML) Liberation Calls for Broadest Coalition to Resist Hindutva Right | Arun Srivastava

  17 February 2023

  by Arun Srivastava
  Philosophy of Hindutva acquiring a toxic dimension and politics of divisiveness getting deeply anchored in the body politick of the country, it has become imperative for the revolutionary communists to bring about some minor but significant changes in its policy and programme.
  Taking forward its task adopted at the 10th Congress of the CPI (ML- Liberation) to defeat of the supremacist RSS through effective intervention in the electoral arena to challenge and defeat the (…)

• Mother Tongue & Wider Culture | Humra Quraishi

  17 February 2023, by Humra Quraishi

  8 February 2023
  On this Upcoming International Mother Language Day - 21 February 2023
  My grasp of my mother tongue, Urdu, is dismal. And till this day I feel rather upset about this. And I do blame the political cum bureaucratic system for depriving the children from the minority community of their mother tongue. Not to overlook the basic fact that Urdu is not taught in a majority of schools in India and with that out of the learning grasp of the school-going Muslim children.
  My (…)

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  Zia Mohyeddin: One of a kind | Beena Sarwar

  17 February 2023

  by Beena Sarwar
  Born: 30 June (or 20 December) 1931, Lyallpur; Passed on: 13 February 2023, Karachi
  The great Zia Mohyeddin was already a legend when I first interacted with him as an adult in the mid-1990s. He had recently moved to Lahore where I then lived at Lakshmi Mansion at Regal Chowk. I was working on the launch of weekly The News on Friday, a brainchild of my editor the multi-talented Imran (…)

• A Flower Blooms | Laxmi Rameshwar Rao

  17 February 2023

  A Flower Blooms When did all the flowers bloom? Another season coming, Where did all the flowers go? Was it a long time ago? (l) How did all the flowers grow? Love tended every one, Whence will they ever grow? Can they be again be grown (2) Why do I feel so very alone? What will make me less forlorn? Will flowering, colours Do they in empathy also mourn? (3) Memory here in every stone No tears over-brim, Memory wind in Dylan blown The being’s drone, With time and med Better left (…)

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  Income Tax raids at the offices of BBC India | Statements by Editors Guild, and by Left parties

  17 February 2023

  Statement by Editor’s Guild of India
  The Editors Guild of India
  PRESS STATEMENT
  February 14th, 2023
  The Editors Guild of India is deeply concerned about the Income Tax surveys at the offices of BBC India. As per news reports, BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai were being “surveyed” by teams from the IT department on Tuesday, February 14, 2023.
  This comes soon after the release of two documentaries by the BBC, on the 2002 violence in Gujarat and the current status of the minorities (…)

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  Three blows to NREGA | NSM Press Release (Feb 16, 2023)

  17 February 2023

  NREGA Sangharsh Morcha (NSM)
  PRESS RELEASE
  [February 16, 2022]
  In the recent week, the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) has dealt three major, concerted blows to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA):
  (1) The Budget allocation for NREGA was reduced to just Rs 60,000 crore in 2023-24 (less than Rs 50,000 crore if we deduct wage arrears from 2022-23). This makes this year’s allocation the lowest as a proportion of GDP (0.2%) in the history of the programme. (2) The (…)

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  McVeigh Review of Pesic’s ’Sounding Bodies’

  17 February 2023

  Reviewed by Bronwen McVeigh (University of Rochester)
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  Sounding Bodies: Music and the Making of Biomedical Science by Peter Pesic
  MIT Press
  2022. 408 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-0-262-04635-0
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  Pythagoras’s acousmatic veil feels like an appropriate place to begin a review regarding the intimate connections between the seemingly disparate fields of biomedical and music history. According to the tale, frustrated Pythagoras opted to teach behind a sheath, believing that the (…)

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  Caricature Tribute to Carlos Saura | Jayaraj Vellur

  17 February 2023, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Painting: End of Shift (1956) | John Wood

  17 February 2023
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  Video: Former CIA Agent John Stockwell Talks about How the CIA Worked in Vietnam

  17 February 2023

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  Former CIA Agent John Stockwell Talks about How the CIA Worked in Vietnam and Elsewhere by Witness to War https://youtu.be/NK1tfkESPVY