Mainstream Weeklyby Radhakanta Barik & Manas Ranjan Nanda *
SOCIETY IN THE east coast State of Odisha is split longitudinally into Peasant and Tribal society. Both are agrarian in nature. The State has a 450 km-long coastline and populations all along the coast from north to south farm fish. Where the Daya river falls into the sea, the lagoon spreads over three districts around Puri and forms a brackish water lake, known as Chilka lake which yields a rich harvest of fish. More than a hundred kinds of (…)
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Living Experiences of Women Naxals from Odisha & AP | Barik & Nanda
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Who feels Guilty? | Subhash Gatade
21 October 2022"That which has happened is a warning. To forget it is guilt. It must be continually remembered. It was possible for this to happen, and it remains possible for it to happen again at any minute. Only in knowledge can it be prevented." — Karl Jasper ín the BBC Documentary Series ’The Nazis : A Warning from History’
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"Are the German People guilty?”
It was the year 1945, the Nazi government had hardly exited the scene, when Karl Jasper, then a Professor at Heidelberg University, Germany (…) -
Navigating the transgender community: education policy as a tool for inclusion in Karnataka | Anushka Singh Parihar
21 October 2022by Anushka Singh Parihar *
Summary:
This policy brief aims to bring light to the current issues regarding the education of the transgender community. In 2021 Karnataka became the first state in India to provide 1% reservation to the transgender community in several government sectors but the issue surrounding their education remains unaddressed. If we take the 2011 census data into consideration there are more than a twenty thousand people who openly identify as transgender but only half (…) -
Summary of Report of People’s Commission on Employment and Unemployment Set up by Desh Bachao Abhiyan
21 October 2022, by Arun KumarRight to Work: Feasible and Indispensable for India to be a truly Civilized and Democratic Nation
Released in New Delhi
October 11, 2022
Thanks to the organizers for the opportunity to prepare and present this Report.
Thanks to the members of the Commission for their support. Also to others who contributed to it. Their contributions are in the Annexure
Reminded of the Alternative Budget, 1994 in GPF where we presented an alternative.
The issue will be how to take it to the (…) -
Tribute: M.M. Puri - A Gentleman in the True Sense of Word
21 October 2022by Prof. Ranbir Singh *
During my stay at the Department of Political Science, Punjab University, Chandigarh from 1962 to 1964 as a student of M.A. Course, I had the good fortune of having outstanding scholars like Dr. I.D. Sharma, Dr. M.M. Puri, Prof. J.C. Anand, Dr. C.F. George and Dr. K.C. Markaran. All of them were good teachers as well as good researchers. However, Dr. M.M. Puri was a Teacher with a difference. He was a gentleman in the true sense of the word. He was not only the (…) -
Andrey Ozharovsky, Russia’s leading anti-nuclear campaigner & environmental activist faces percecution
21 October 2022Source : UWEC
Russia prosecutes activist for citing IAEA report
Posted on October 9, 2022 By Editor
By Aleksei Ovchinnikov
Translated by Jennifer Castner
Expert anti-nuclear Russian campaigner and public figure Andrey Ozharovsky was accused in August 2022 of discrediting Russia’s state atomic energy corporation, RosAtom. An administrative legal case is being filed against him. In the meantime, Ozharovsky has repeatedly made public statements and continues to serve as a regular (…) -
The Supreme Court Staying Acquittal of Prof. Saibaba and 5 others sets a dangerous precedent | PUCL
21 October 2022People’s Union for Civil Liberties
18th October, 2022 SC Staying Acquittal of Prof. Saibaba and 5 others A dangerous precedent which dilutes procedural safeguards and Compromises the right to personal liberty
PUCL expresses its serious concern over the hurried manner by which the SC permitted the Government of Maharashtra to move an urgent appeal on Saturday 16th October, 2022 against the acquittal/discharge of Prof. Saibaba and 5 others by the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay HC on (…) -
On revelations on Bilkis Bano convict release affair - Socialist Party (india) Press Release | Oct 20, 2022
21 October 2022Press Release
Gangster State India
This week’s not-so-surprising plot-twist revelation in the Bilkis Bano convict release affair, in response to a Supreme Court petition filed by several parties including Mahua Moitra, Subhashini Ali, Revati Laul, and Lucknow based 79-year old philosophy professor Rekha Roop Verma, are the contents of the government’s affidavits to the court.
These show that that the Central Government, in yet another tone-deaf display of brazenness, and in stark (…) -
Full Text of Statement by Press Club of India - Kashmiri Journalist denised premission to Travel to the US
21 October 2022PRESS CLUB OF INDIA
New Delhi
[October 20, 2022]
PCI fails to comprehend the Government decision to stop Pulitzer prize winning Kashmiri journalist Sanah Mattoo to travel to the US to receive the prize.
On the one hand, the Government is making all out efforts to integrate Kashmir with the national mainstream, on the other such actions will only act as deterrents and further aid in alienating people from Kashmir.
We note with concern that this is the second time in four months that (…) -
Statement by General Insurance Employees All India Association Oct 19, 2022
21 October 2022GENERAL INSURANCE EMPLOYEES’ ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION (Affiliated to Trade Union International) e-mail address: - gieaia1971[at]yahoo.com Sterling Cinema Building, Third floor, No.65, Murzban Road, Fort, Mumbai –400 001 Working Office: 15-16, Scindia House, KG Marg, New Delhi-110001
President : AMARJEET KAUR Working President: R.SRINIVASAMURTHY General Secretary: TRILOK SINGH Addl. General Secretary: A.KUMARVELU
19th October, 2022
Today General Insurance Employees (…)