Mainstream Weekly[The following post appeared on November 8 2022 on Thomas Piketty’s Blog ]
Let’s say it straight out: it is impossible to seriously fight global warming without a profound redistribution of wealth, both within countries and internationally. Those who claim otherwise are lying to the world. And those who claim that redistribution is certainly desirable, sympathetic, etc., but unfortunately technically or politically impossible, are lying just as much. They would be better off defending what (…)
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Redistributing wealth to save the planet | Thomas Piketty
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Threats to journalists in Kashmir | Statement by Editor’s Guild
19 November 2022The Editors Guild of India Address: 4/7- A, INS Building, Rafi Marg, New Delhi-110001
PRESS STATEMENT
November 18th, 2022
The Editors Guild of India is deeply concerned about the recent threats issued to journalists working in Kashmir, by alleged terror organisations, and the subsequent resignations of five of the journalists from their respective media outlets.
Journalists in Kashmir now find themselves in the firing line from both the state authorities as well as terrorists, in (…) -
DUJ Concern at Central Monitoring of Clubs & Other Bodies
19 November 2022DELHI UNION OF JOURNALISTS (REGD) Flat No.29, Central Market, Connaught Place, New Delhi-1 Phone: 23413459, Email: duj.delhi[at]gmail.com
18 November, 2022
PRESS RELEASE
The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) has expressed serious concern at reports that the Prime Minister’s Office and select ministries are trying to collect details of all institutions and clubs, including press bodies, clubs and conference centers, to monitor the internal affairs of such bodies.
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Saha on Guha’s The Curious Trajectory of Caste in West Bengal Politics
19 November 2022Book Review by Soumya Saha __0__
The Curious Trajectory of Caste in West Bengal Politics: Chronicling Continuity and Change by Ayan Guha
Leiden/Boston: Brill 2022 Price: €145.00 309 pages Hardback-ISBN: 978-90-04-51181-1 E-Book -ISBN: 978-90-04-51456-0
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Since the demise of the Left Front government in West Bengal, scholarly interest in the changing political dynamics in the state, particularly in the political role of caste has significantly increased (Chandra et. al, 2016; (…) -
When Thugs and Dacoits Defied the British | M.R. Narayan Swamy
19 November 2022, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
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Tales of Crimes Past: A Casebook of Crime in Colonial India
by Sunil Nair
Hachette India
Pages: 226; Price: Rs 599
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They were thugs, they held the authorities in contempt, they strangled innocent travellers at will, and they never showed remorse for the innumerable cold-blooded murders they committed. But they were a bizarre lot. Before they set out to kill, they studied good and bad omens. Welcome to the world of thuggery in British India.
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Photo: Secretariat building in Chandigarh designed by Le Corbusier in the 1950s
19 November 2022[source]
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Audio: Self-Employed Women’s Association - Ela Bhatt’s Legacy
19 November 2022In Gandhi’s birthplace, in 1972, a labor lawyer named Ela Bhatt gave birth to a union comprised of home-based workers, market vendors, cart-pullers and head-load carriers, agricultural and construction laborers, and other unrecognized forms of low-paid work done by women. Ela Bhatt died November 2, 2022, but her legacy lives on. The horizontally-organized Self-Employed Women’s Association is reported to have more than 2 million members today, helping each other negotiate for wages and (…)
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Video: Why the Himalayas have so many ghost villages | DW
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Why the Himalayas have so many ghost villages by DW Planet A https://youtu.be/Xhg0JbFhM6g -
Table of Contents - Mainstream, Nov 12, 2022
12 November 2022* Birth of an Alternative Development paradigm | Sunil Ray
* Aruna Asaf Ali & Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: Revolutionary Women in the Freedom Struggle | Chaturvedi and Raju
* After Lula’s Narrow Victory: Return to Democratic Capitalism or an Ongoing Rightwing Insurgency in Brazil? | Jörg Nowak -
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 12, 2022
12 November 2022Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 12, 2022
António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general in blunt speech at the COP27 summit in Egypt warned that the world is doomed unless there is a urgent action to counter climate change. We have seen successive world summits in the since the 1990s where world leaders make tall promises but the required action doesn’t follow. Powerful lobbyists representing the fossil fuel economy and multinational firms known for polluting & (…)