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  Photo: Jawaharlal Nehru with V.K. Krishna Menon and Indira Gandhi in London

  16 December 2022
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  Caricature Tribute to Dominique Lapierre | Jayaraj Vellur

  16 December 2022, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Video: Environmental History Journal Roundtable - Nature and the New Right

  16 December 2022

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  Environmental History Journal Roundtable: Nature and the New Right by Environment and Humanities https://youtu.be/C9tPxawIn5g

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  Film: Soy Cuba | Mikhail Kalatozov (1964)

  16 December 2022

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  I am Cuba | DRAMA | FULL MOVIE by Mosfilm https://youtu.be/Y3HpI898dwg

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Dec 3, Dec 10 2022

  2 December 2022

  * Poverty, Inequality has risen in the Modi Years | K N Ninan
  * Misplaced Claims of India Being the Mother of Democracy | S N Sahu
  * Somalia’s Long Journey from Prosperity to Hunger | Bharat Dogra
  * Albert Einstein on God, in his letter to Erik Gutkind (1954)
  * Concern over Death Penalty for protestors in Iran | IDPD

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 3, & Dec 10, 2022

  2 December 2022

  Letter to the Readers, December 3, December 10, 2022
  The big COP27 Climate jamboree with its 30,000 jet set delegates just ended in the Egyptian beach resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh (otherwise popular with Russian tourists). Climate and civil society activists at the conference faced some intimidation, harassment from the heavy handed Egyptian security and secret service, leading to a statement from prominent UN special rapporteurs to the Human Rights Council. The conference was marked by (…)

• BJP Wins Gujarat But Loses Himachal Pradesh! | Nilofar Suhrawardy

  2 December 2022, by Nilofar Suhrawardy

  [article updated on Dec 10, 2022]
  Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s victory in Gujarat Assembly Elections in view of its defeat in Himachal Pradesh as well as polls of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) certainly send contrary messages about this party’s hold in these three domains. While BJP has returned to power in Gujarat, it has failed to in Himachal Pradesh and has lost MCD polls after around 15 years. As expected, numerous speculations are being voiced about these election results. (…)

• Poverty, Inequality has risen in the Modi Years | K N Ninan

  2 December 2022

  by K N Ninan *
  Despite becoming the fifth largest economy in the world, India continues to have the largest concentration of the world’s poor estimated at 159.8 to 192.8 million people in 2020 using the international poverty line of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) $ 2.15 as per a recent World Bank report (World Bank 2022).
  Official estimates of poverty and inequality in India are based on the results of the household Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) of the National Sample Survey (NSS). (…)

• Gandhi in Gujarat meeting Bacha Khan fate in his homeland | Faraz Ahmad

  2 December 2022, by Faraz Ahmad

  “Tum bilkul hum jaise nikle tum bilkul hum jaisey nikley ab tak kahan chhupe the bhai voh moorkhta, voh ghaamarpan jis mein hum ne sadi ganwai aakhir pahunchi dwaar tumhaarey arre badhai bohot badhai —Pakistani poet Fehmida Riyaz after Babri Masjid demolition.
  Frontier Gandhi, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the symbol of non-violence, secularism and religious tolerance in what was then known as North West Frontier Province (NWFP) died in the era of General Ziaul Haq’s Islamised and Jehadised (…)

• The Bali Summit and India’s G20 Presidency | P S Jayaramu

  2 December 2022

  by P. S. Jayaramu
  November 28, 2022
  India accepted the Presidency of the G20 at the recently concluded summit at Bali, Indonesia. This is both an opportunity for India to project its leadership of the Global South as well as a challenge, as the Indian leadership will have to, in the next one year, use its diplomatic skills to bring on board the developed nations in the group towards working for solutions to the numerous issues ranging from the Ukraine war and its impact on the world at (…)