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  Economic growth is fuelling climate change – a new book proposes ‘degrowth communism’ as the solution | Timothée Parrique

  18 March 2023

  by Timothée Parrique
  March 3, 2023
  I’m often told that degrowth, the planned downscaling of production and consumption to reduce the pressure on Earth’s ecosystems, is a tough sell. But a 36-year-old associate professor at Tokyo University has made a name for himself arguing that “degrowth communism” could halt the escalating climate emergency.
  Kohei Saito, the bestselling author of Capital in the Anthropocene, is back with a new book: Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of (…)

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  Sketch of Barrack No. 6 from Jawaharlal Nehru’s prison diary

  18 March 2023
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  Cartoon: India opposition groups protest through March | Nala Ponnappa

  18 March 2023
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  Photo: Estação da Luz Train Station, Sao Paolo (2008) | Silvio Tanaka

  18 March 2023
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  Film: The Tenth Man directed by Jack Gold

  18 March 2023

  The Tenth Man is a novel by the British novelist Graham Greene. Play
  The Tenth Man 1988 | Full Movie | English Movie by Logan Smtith https://youtu.be/aB6ncmkHY2k

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Mar 11, 2023

  11 March 2023

  * Christian Show of Unity, Anger Catches BJP by Surprise | John Dayal
  * As the WPL Starts, Don’t Look Back in Anger | Aparajita
  * Omnipresent Caste | Sandeep Pandey
  * Review of Prakash Singh’s book on Police Reforms | K S Subramanian
  * Review of Sarunas Paunksnis book on Hindi Cinema | Radhakanta Barik
  * Metaphor In Orbit (Science is Not All Social Relations) | Rose & Rose

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Mar 11, 2023

  11 March 2023

  Letter to the readers, Mainstream, March 11, 2023
  Vice President & Chair of the Rajya Sabha Must Act in all Fairness
  Our constitution envisages the Parliament as a space for free speech and debate. Recently expressed public remarks and actions by Mr. Jagdeep Dhankar, the Vice President of India and who is constitutionally mandated to Chair the Rajya Sabha – the upper house of India’s Parliament are causing concern. In January of this year, Vice President Dhankhar created a flutter (…)

• TIPRALand was a ruse to surreptitiously help the BJP in Tripura polls | Faraz Ahmad

  11 March 2023, by Faraz Ahmad

  The cat is out of the bag, TIPRA Motha chief Pradyot Manikya Debbarma, whose electoral debut helped the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) barely scrape through the recently held Tripura Assembly elections and resume power for a second five-year term, has offered the much need support of his 13 MLAs to the Manik Saha led BJP government.
  BJP had won 32 seats in a 60-member House including that won by Pratima Bhoumik, a Union minister, also projected by the BJP, during the campaign, as a chief (…)

• Christian Show of Unity, Anger Catches BJP by Surprise | John Dayal

  11 March 2023, by John Dayal

  Days after 25-year-old Nasir and Junaid, 35, of Ghatmkeeka in the western state of Rajasthan where killed and their bodies burnt in their jeep in February 2023 by cow vigilante members of the Bajrang Dal, in distant Meghalaya in the northeast, State Bharatiya Janata Party President, Ernest Mawrie, made a startling statement. He said there are no restrictions on consuming beef in the Hindutva party. Mawrie told India today he himself eats beef and there is no issue with it.
  Meghalaya is (…)

• Omnipresent Caste | Sanjana Sree Manusanipalli and Sandeep Pandey

  11 March 2023, by Sandeep Pandey

  The city is supposed to be the place where anyone can be anything they want to be. They say in a city like Hyderabad, there are no feelings of caste, class or religion. Everyone is supposed to be equal. Sociologists have also believed that urbanisation could signal the end of the caste system. B. R. Ambedkar encouraged people from marginalised castes to migrate to urban areas. He believed Indian villages perpetuate this system of inequality. Unfortunately, however, cities have their own way (…)