Mainstream WeeklyMUMBAI PRESS CLUB PRESS STATEMENT February 8, 2023
MAHARASHTRA GOVERNMENT MUST INITIATE IMMEDIATE AND SERIOUS ACTION AGAINST THE KILLERS OF JOURNALIST SHASHIKANT WARISHE
The Mumbai Press Club is shocked at the brutal, public murder of journalist Shashikant Warishe near Rajapur, in the Konkan Region of Maharashtra. The killing in broad daylight brings to the fore once again the plummeting standards of civil liberties and free speech in the country and the brazen attempt by both state (…)
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Table of Contents - Mainstream, Feb 4, 2023
4 February 2023* Union Budget 2023-24 Fails to Live up to Expectations of People | Bharat Dogra
* Remembering VKRV Rao | KN Ninan
* In Defence of Student Politics | Soumodip Sinha
* On Happiness | Kobad Ghandy
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Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 4, 2023
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The National Budget 2023-24 presented in Parliament this week had major cuts in key areas of social spending —employment, nutrition, health, education, and economic commitments towards the peasantry— triggering sharp disapproval from the social democratic opposition, the left, and from social movement groups. The process got overshadowed by news of a market meltdown of the share values of one of India’s biggest business conglomerates. In five (…)