Mainstream WeeklyTributes to respected Shanti Bhushan-ji, a tall lawyer, great teacher, and humble leader! Instrumental in dethroning Indira Gandhi, gathering of forces for the post-Emergency Janata Party, and bringing AAP and Kejriwal to the political forefront. I remember his surprise appearance for me in the Operation Bluestar Report - bail matter in the District Court of Tis Hazari, when I was unconditionally set free. A senior advocate appearing in the district court was very rare. He was my first (…)
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Remembering Respected Shanti Bhushan, My First Teacher in Law Practice | Aurobindo Ghose
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As Morning Light Glows in the Eastern Sky | Lakshmi Rameshwar Rao
4 February 2023A Future of White
If a past is grey and circumstances seem black,
A future of white can well be distilled,
If the being fills with light (Haiku, adapted, 2007)
Proof of Rock
Let us go then all of us,
As morning light glows in the eastern sky,
Cleaning blood from psychiatric stables,
Winnowing in biblical fables,
Baptist’s prophecy,
Jordan anointed Superstar ministry. (In honorarium, 2007)
Quitipin Quirk
It is not in the realms of previous psychotic speeds that (…) -
From the Commander of Knowledge | Mohammad Talib
4 February 2023* From the Commander of Knowledge
Olive green judgements. Brass button reflections. Thinking tied around cross belts. To see or not to see, that is the question. Seeing ‘the sea of trouble’** and suffer its ‘slings and arrows’, is banned. ‘Not seeing’ guards the viewers against the ‘heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks’. The runway of thinking is already mapped. It bleeds off fruitless thoughts in the national interest. The university’s proctors parade free-thinking with a (…) -
Vietnam’s social insurance dilemma | Tu Phuong Nguyen
4 February 2023by Tu Phuong Nguyen *
February 2, 2023
At the end of 2022, there were reports of long queues of employees in Ho Chi Minh City who had been waiting since dawn at several local offices to claim lump sum payments from their social insurance premiums. Many Vietnamese workers view their social insurance premiums as a kind of savings mechanism, and are inclined to seek early access to social insurance funds when their income is lost or reduced or when extra household spending needs arise.
A (…) -
Closure of Moscow Helsinki Group another blow to human rights and civic space in Russia | OHCHR
4 February 2023Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Press release
Comment by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Marta Hurtado on Russia
26 January 2023
The court order to close down Russia’s oldest human rights organization, the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG), is yet another blow to human rights and civic space in the country. MHG was founded in 1976 and reported on human rights violations in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and later the Russian Federation. Its closure was (…) -
CPI Demands Thorough Probe into Adani Deals | Press Release Jan 28, 2023
4 February 2023New Delhi, January 28, 2023
Press Release
Communist Party of India Central Office Ajoy Bhavan, 15 Com. Indrajit Gupta Marg, New Delhi 110002
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (January 28, 2023) demanding a thorough probe into Adani deals:
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India has been repeatedly pointing out that the pro-corporate and pro-big business policies adopted by the RSS-BJP combine government led (…) -
Letter to Union Minister - Electronics and Information Technology by Editors Guild of India (Jan 24, 2023)
4 February 2023The Editors Guild of India Address: 4/7- A, INS Building, Rafi Marg, New Delhi-110001
24th January 2023
Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw The Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Electronics Niketan, 6 CGO Complex, Pragati Vihar, Lodhi Road New Delhi - 110003
Subject: Concerns regarding draft amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021
Hon’ble Minister,
amendments to the reads (amendment in blue and (…) -
AITUC Press Release on the Union Budget 2023-24
4 February 2023All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
AITUC Office
01st February 2023
Press Release
The following statement is issued by the AITUC Secretariat on Budget 2023-24
Budget 2023-24 - Unimpressive and hollow
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman has presented her last full budget, placing it with pomp as ‘amrut kaal budget’. As usual the bombastic jugglery of words and encomiums on the Prime Minister filled the substantial part of her budget speech. In sum, the budget woefully is hollow (…) -
Samyukt Kisan Morcha - Press Statement on Union Budget 2023
4 February 2023Samyukt Kisan Morcha - Press Statement on Union Budget 2023
UNION GOVT HAS ABANDONED ITS DUTY TOWARDS FARMERS OF INDIA IN UNION BUDGET 2023
Delhi, 1st February, 2023: SKM expresses shock and bewilderment at the Union Budget 2023 announced by the Finance Minister in the floor of Parliament today.
While it is universally known that farming and farmers have been economically neglected by the BJP led Union Govt, SKM had expected that after the sustained and determined protest of the (…) -
The Union Budget is a Disappointment - Socialist Party (India) | Feb 3, 2023
4 February 2023Socialist Party (India)
Press Release
THE UNION BUDGET IS A DISAPPOINTMENT
The Socialist Party (India) is of the view that the Union Budget is disappointing as it lacks clear plans and vision to address the problems of common citizens of India, especially the marginalized sections of population. To solve the problems of farmers or workers, constructive measures are not proposed. There is no relief for the farmer either in terms of promise of guaranteed Minimum Support Prices or from (…)