Mainstream WeeklyOctober 27, 2022
The Editor,
We strongly protest against any move to emboss Indian currency notes with the images of Goddess Laxmi and God Ganesh. It is a conspiracy to give Gandhi the Divine status and manufacture a new Trimurti.
It is a move to insult Hinduism by defiling the image of a Hindu God and a Hindu Goddess whose rightful place is in sacred temples and not on the filthy currency notes. In our culture, money is dirt that needs to be discarded. We wash our hands after touching (…)
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No Images of Gods on Indian Currency Notes - Letter to the Editor
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Introduction: Achieving Swaraj by Indian Masses
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What Bandobast on Dengue? / Habib Jalib / Pran Nevile | Humra Quraishi
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With Dengue cases on the rise, one’s been sitting wondering: where are all the development machinery and gadgets and the much promised bandobast to keep mosquitoes away from us.
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Bolshevism, Metaphysics and Fascism. A Note On The Left’s Debacle In India | Murzban Jal
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Lessons from Sri Lanka’s cascading, multiple crises | Pragya Narang
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CPI 24th Congress calls upon people of India to fight for "Health for All"
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CPI to campaign for Health to be a Fundamental Right
Increase the public spending on health to 6% of GDP
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Leadership after Party Congress - Press Communiqué Communist Party of India - Oct 27, 2022
29 October 2022Communist Party of India
New Delhi,
October 27, 2022
Press Communiqué
The Party Congress of Communist Party of India was held in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh from October 14 to 18, 2022.
In the Party Congress D RAJA has been unanimously re-elected as general secretary of the Party.
The newly elected national secretariat members are: 1. D Raja, General Secretary 2. Kanam Rajendran 3. Atul Kumar Anjaan 4. Amarjeet Kaur 5. Dr. K. Narayana 6. Dr. B.K. Kango 7. Binoy Viswam 8. Pallab (…) -
Online targetting of Women Journalists - Statement by Editors’s Guild
29 October 2022PRESS STATEMENT
October 28th, 2022
The Editors Guild of India had issued a statement on January 11, 2022 expressing deep concern about the online harassment and targeting of women journalists.
Amongst other instances, the statement had also referred to a series of reports carried by the Wire on an app called the Tek Fog. Since the Wire has removed those stories as part of their internal review following serious questions on the veracity of their reporting, the Guild withdraws the (…)