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  Cartoon on the Proposed Film City in UP | Alok

  6 January 2023
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  Music: Loulou Gasté "Il n’a pas très bon caractère" (1943)

  6 January 2023

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  Loulou Gasté " Il n’a pas très bon caractère " 1943 by lysgauty1 collection disques David Silvestre https://youtu.be/gW40EthJvlc

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  Audio: John Majewski - Inaugural Lecture: Living Democracy in Capitalism’s Shadow

  6 January 2023

  IHC UCSB · John Majewski - Inaugural Lecture: Living Democracy in Capitalism’s Shadow

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Dec 24, Dec 31 2022

  24 December 2022

  * Indian Economy and Banking Under the Sway of Global Capital | Arun Kumar * Not Rooted in Public Culture, Hindutva is a Lone Militant | Radhakanta Barik * Spread of Farmers’ Agitation (2020-21) in Haryana | Jaglan & Rajeshwari
  * Can The Congress Again Become - A Common Man’s Party? | Papri Sri Raman
  * Is Cuban Family Code a Trendsetter? | Chathukulam & Gonzalez

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 24, & Dec 31, 2022

  24 December 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, December 24 & December 31, 2022
  Defying all the Taliban government in Afghanistan has banned university education for women. Courageous of women in Kabul and other cities to continue to protest against restrictions on them. In their close neighbourhood women in Iran have been protesting the repression by moral police on all women who question or resist the veil. Multiple voices of solidarity with these protests have risen to put international pressure (…)

• Challenges of the Indian Economy and Banking Under the Sway of Global Capital | Arun Kumar

  24 December 2022, by Arun Kumar

  Introduction
  In a modern day capitalist society, finance (vitta) is of crucial importance. It can help the individuals but also marginalize them since finance is not only complex but becoming more so and even educated people barely understand it. So, most people follow the herd mentality and often that leads to mistakes.
  Any analysis of the world of finance in India requires one to understand the nature of the current Indian Economy and its changing philosophical moorings. The problem is (…)

• With No Roots in Public Culture, Hindutva is a Lone Militant | Radhakanta Barik

  24 December 2022, by Radhakanta Barik

  by Radhakanta Barik *
  THE PRESENT HOME MINISTER and prominent leader of the BJP, Amit Shah, believes that the Bharatiya Janata Party will rule for forty to fifty years. There is a book on Modi saying the same thing (Ajay Singh’s forthcoming book cited in Walter Andersen 2022). The question young and progressive India is asking is, ‘is it possible’?
  It is not like the Congress which is a product of national movements and has negotiated with diverse social groups and castes, as such (…)

• Dispersion and Regional Dynamics of Farmers’ Agitation (2020-2021) in Haryana | Mahabir S. Jaglan & Rajeshwari

  24 December 2022

  by Mahabir S. Jaglan & Rajeshwari *
  One year has lapsed since the Government of India repealed three farm laws that were fiercely contested by the farmers of India under the leadership of Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM). The historical agitation of farmers (2020-2021) had its genesis in the state of Punjab; but the real battle was fought on the soil of Haryana. It would be interesting to reflect upon the evolution of protest-landscape of the movement and the factors in its geographical (…)

• From Babri Mosque to Ram Temple: Historical perspective | Ram Puniyani

  24 December 2022

  by Ram Puniyani
  This 5th August (2020) the Prime Minister of India did the ground breaking ceremony (Bhumi Pujan) for Ram Temple in Ayodhya. The Prime Minster compared the 15th August; when India got freedom to the 5th August, when according to him Lord Ram was liberated. Also he said that as all the people rallied behind Mahatma Gandhi to get India freedom; so now all people have rallied together to liberate Lord Ram. The RSS chief who was present on the occasion quoted some shloka from (…)

• Can The Congress Again Become - A Common Man’s Party? | Papri Sri Raman

  24 December 2022, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  AS THE YEAR ENDS, friends have been asking me what my thoughts are on. Let me tell you a story, even as a third year of Corona virus looms this winter. It is a warm tale for a dark winter night, when no hope glimmers. The story of what happened some twenty years ago, and what can happen again.
  As the results of Delhi’s municipal elections and the assembly elections in Gujarat and Haryana are out, my thoughts, frankly have been on India’s oldest national party, and you may ask me why? One (…)