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  Ten Point Letter from Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions (Oct 28, 2022)

  29 October 2022

  To, Shri Bhupender Yadav ji Hon’ble Minister of Labour & Employment Govt of India Shram Shakti Bhawan Rafi Marg, New Delhi 110001
  28th October 2022
  Sub: Submission by the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions on certain issues pertaining to Labour and Working People of India, requesting urgent intervention.
  Dear Sir,
  The Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions and Independent Federations/Associations, in its meeting held on 23rd September 2022 in New Delhi, unanimously resolved (…)

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  Book Review: S.P.K. Gupta’s Two Vol. The Rise and Eclipse of the Soviet Civilisation | Sobhanlal Datta Gupta

  29 October 2022

  Book Review:
  by Sobhanlal Datta Gupta*
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  The Rise and Eclipse of the Soviet Civilisation.
  Vol I : The Rise
  Vol 2 : The Eclipse
  by S.P.K. Gupta E Book
  New Delhi : Evelyn Publishers
  2022
  Vol I : 2288 pages
  Vol II : 1257 pages
  Rs 500.00 each volume __0__
  A book authored by a very senior journalist stationed as PTI correspondent in Moscow for quite a long period and reflecting on the fall of the Soviet Union after thirty years of its demise made me deeply (…)

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  A Doctor with a Heart | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  29 October 2022

  Reviewed by M.R. Narayan Swamy __0__
  When The Heart Speaks: Memoirs of a Cardiologist by Dr Upendra Kaul Konark Publishers Pages: 202 Price: Rs 750 __0__
  There are plenty of good doctors in this country, fortunately. Yet, it is not easy to know a doctor who is a successful professional, nationally recognized and yet a warm-hearted human being whose heart bleeds for the peaceful society that Kashmir, his home state, once was.
  Dr Upendra Kaul devotes much of the book to his more than (…)

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  Lithograph: Newspaper Boys - Chittaprosad

  29 October 2022
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  Caricature - Tribute to Mike Davis | Jayaraj Vellur

  29 October 2022, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Audio: Laleh Khalili on Sinews of War and Trade - Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula | The Dig - April 30, 2021

  29 October 2022

  on the colonial roots of contemporary maritime trade, Aden dock worker radicals, why Dubai is not exceptional, the impacts of steam engines and containerization—and so much more

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  Music: Angelo Debarre - Inquiétude (1989)

  29 October 2022

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  Inquietude by Angelo Debarre - Topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8MhNukcb_Y

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Oct 22, 2022

  21 October 2022

  * Experiences of Women Naxals from Odisha & AP | Barik & Nanda
  * Who feels Guilty? | Subhash Gatade
  * Unemployment Report Summary | Arun Kumar

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 22, 2022

  21 October 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 22, 2022
  The Congress Party which emerged out of the National Freedom movement has a long history of choosing consensus candidates for the post of its President and a real contest in internal elections for top leadership have been rare. In the past decade and more Sonia Gandhi has been its President. Rahul Gandhi had been elected President in late 2017 but he decided to resign after in July 2019 and since then the party has not had a permanent head. (…)

• Thinking Gandhi and Democracy in India | Wani & Naik

  21 October 2022

  by Gull Mohammad Wani and Ouffee Maqbool Naik
  Mahatma Gandhi after his return from South Africa was advised by Gopal Krishan Gokhale to undertake a Padyatra and meet people of all castes and communities keep the "mouth closed" and let people speak and don’t lecture them for you cannot have answers to many of their questions. The common people have a lot to tell you". Bapu as he was commonly called abided by it and moved in the length and breadth of India and thus became the (…)