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  Statement by General Insurance Employees All India Association Oct 19, 2022

  21 October 2022

  GENERAL 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 (…)

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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 (…)