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  Reporting at its Courageous Best | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  21 October 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Review by M.R. Narayan Swamy
  __0__ Bullets and Bylines: From the Frontlines of Kabul, Delhi, Damascus and Beyond by Shyam Bhatia
  Speaking Tiger Pages: 249; Price: Rs 599 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1720226733 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1720226734
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  Shyam Bhatia got out of two tense situations because of Bollywood. The India-born Bhatia was walking in Baghdad towards the ousted Saddam Hussein’s presidential palace when he saw 40 to 50 Iraqis shouting hoarse at an American soldier on a US Army Humvee. (…)

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  Review: Raghavan on Vijayan’s Midnight’s Borders

  21 October 2022, by G Narasimha Raghavan

  BOOK REVIEW
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  Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India
  by Suchitra Vijayan
  Context (an imprint of Westland Publication)
  2021. Pages 320. Rs 699.
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  The Dawn, on Sep 14, 2022, carried a piece on the demise of Queen Elizabeth II, and the last line went this way: “The queen is dead; I hope the system of corruption and looting, of occupation and genocide that she represented perishes too”. Along with these cardinal debaucheries, one would add wanton (…)

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  Photo: Juan Miguel Pando Barrero - Farmacia de la Gran Vía de Madrid durante la Guerra Civil (1937)

  21 October 2022
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  Video: Thoughts on the Fascist Movement in India | Arundathi Roy (Oct 9, 2022)

  21 October 2022

  This is a recorded speech of Arundhati Roy at a meeting organized in memory of late Dr K Balagopal at Hyderabad on 09.10. 2022 by Human Rights Forum

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  Music: La Petite Fille De La Mer | Vangelis

  21 October 2022

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  Vangelis - La petite fille de la mer by pavelba https://youtu.be/UdPOCQGYwrk

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Oct 15, 2022

  15 October 2022

  * West Bengal: Skirmishes at Mominpur | Upal Chakraborty
  * Challenges Before the Left — Internationally & India | Kobad Ghandy
  * Discontent Between the Governor & Left Govt. in Kerala | J Chathukulam
  * AAP’s Mohalla Clinics | Priyanka Yadav
  * Can the Bharat Jodo Yatra spur democratic governance? | Vikash Narain Rai

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 15, 2022

  15 October 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 15, 2022
  In the past weeks there were a series of disturbing developments that were reported in the news. We recapitulate some of these here in public interest; First is an instance of a public flogging of Muslim youths by policemen in rural Gujarat in front of a cheering crowd. Police are supposed to protect law and must observe rules they are trained for. Action must be taken over this blatant act of wrong-doing by the police as this can be read as (…)

• West Bengal: Skirmishes at Mominpur | Upal Chakraborty

  15 October 2022, by Upal Chakraborty

  by Upal Chakraborty *
  Mominpur is a locality in Kolkata familiar to me personally because of various reasons.
  The most vivid memories date back to a period in the late eighties when I recollect my father taking up a consultancy assignment with a pharmaceutical company in that locality after his retirement. The owner of the company was an eccentric person with a penchant for late-night discussions. His meets meetings normally commenced around 7 pm, and continued till 10 or 11. After (…)

• Challenges Before the Left — Internationally & India | Kobad Ghandy

  15 October 2022, by Kobad Ghandy

  Paper presented at a Seminar at Vijayawada organised by CPI On Sept 30 2022
  By ‘left’ I would first draw a distinction between communists and social democrats as seen through history. Though the term basically encompasses both trends, which, of course, need to come together in the fight against fascist forces; here I will focus only on the former.
  Social democrats are more for reforming the existing system to try and make it more equitable within the bourgeois structure. Communists are (…)

• Brewing Discontent Between the Governor and Left Democratic Front in Kerala: Does It Indicate the Fractures in Centre-State Relations and Academic Freedom? | Jos Chathukulam

  15 October 2022, by Jos Chathukulam

  by Jos Chathukulam *
  Abstract
  The face-off between Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan and the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala is the latest one to shook the adversarial and competitive political landscape in Kerala. While it is being portrayed as a political slugfest, the reality is something else. It is not merely an issue between the Governor and the Chief Minister. The widening democratic deficit, the weakening of civil society, the stoic silence of public intellectuals and (…)