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• Sitting the trippers | Engel & Cowan

  15 October 2022

  October 10, 2022
  by Liam Engel, Edith Cowan *
  Most people who take psychedelics do so on their own or with friends, not in clinical settings. Removing stigma is the first step toward limiting the harm.
  International prohibition means most psychedelic drugs are legally available only in research. There are currently around 60 psychedelic clinical trials globally with an estimated fewer than 6,000 people participating in them. But outside of these trials, more than 20,000 people have (…)

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  AIDWA statement on Supreme Court Ruling on Abortion Rights | Oct 1, 2022

  15 October 2022

  ALL INDIA DEMOCRATIC WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION
  2253-E, Shadi Khampur, New Ranjit Nagar, New Delhi - 110008 hone: 011-25700476, 25709565 Email: aidwacec[at]gmail.com Website: aidwaonline.org
  Date: October 1, 2022
  AIDWA STATEMENT ON THE SC JUDGEMENT ON ABORTION RIGHTS
  The All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) welcomes the judgment of three judges of the Supreme Court in the case of X v. The Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department, Govt. of NCT of Delhi in which (…)

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  Move of the Election Commission to amend the Model Code of Conduct | Statement by CPI

  15 October 2022

  Communist Party of India
  October 5, 2022
  Press Release
  CPI Disapproves EC’s Interference into the Domain of Political Parties and Legislative Bodies
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (on October 5, 2022) disapproving the Election Commission’s interference into the domain of political parties and legislative bodies:
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India disapproves the latest move of the Election (…)

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  Text of CPI(M) General Secretary’s letter to the Election Commission of India’s Proposed Changes to the Model Code of Conduct

  15 October 2022

  cpim.org
  Date: Friday, October 14, 2022
  Sitaram Yechury, General Secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist), has written the following letter to the Chief Election Commissioner, Election Commission of India demanding withdrawal of the proposed amendment to the Model Code of Conduct. We are herewith releasing the text of the letter for publication.
  Dear Shri Rajiv Kumar ji,
  This is with reference to the Commission’s letter dated October 4, 2022 regarding the amendment to the (…)

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  Demise of jailed Kashmiri leader Altaf Shah - PIPFPD Statement (Oct 11, 2022)

  15 October 2022

  Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace & Democracy
  11th October 2022
  Annihilation of Human Rights in Indian Jails: the Demise of Mr. Altaf Shah
  The unfortunate and avoidable demise of jailed Kashmiri leader Altaf Shah is really shocking, sad and speaks volumes about the continued insensitivity of the Indian Govt towards political prisoners. Despite an SC order to get him shifted from RML to AIIMS for renal cancer treatment, the Govt delayed this and killed the possibility of any (…)

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  Book Review: Can India’s public universities be remodelled? | P.S. Jayaramu

  15 October 2022, by P S Jayaramu

  Reviewd by P.S. Jayaramu
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  Remodelling the Universities:
  Meeting Challenges of the 21st Century
  by Srinivas K. Saidapur
  (New Delhi, Atlantic Publishers, 2022, Pages189, Hard Bound, Price Rs. 795)
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  (30th September, 2022)
  The author of this book Dr. Srinivas K. Saidapur is a well known Scientist, thinker and educational administrator, having served Karnatak University, Dharwad, for long years as Professor of Zoology and Vice Chancellor. He is the recipient of many (…)

• A Discourse on Authoritarian Populism | Arup Kumar Sen

  15 October 2022, by Arup Kumar Sen

  In his preface to a recent collection of articles on ‘Authoritarian Populism’, Douglas Kellner observed: “Since the Brexit referendum in U. K., the election of Donald Trump in the 2016 U. S. election, and the rise of right-wing populist movements throughout the globe, there has been intense focus on authoritarian populism on a global scale…Trump has neither the well-articulated party apparatus, nor the full-blown ideology of the Nazis, and thus more resembles the phenomena of authoritarian (…)

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  Nehru to Najibullah: A Journalist’s Story | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  15 October 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVEIW
  Reporting India: My Seventy-Year Journey as a Journalist
  by Prem Prakash (ANI)
  Publishers: Ebury Press (Penguin Random House) Pages: 225; Price: Rs 699 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 067009398X ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0670093984 __0__
  Jawaharlal looked so tired after the 1962 war with China that he almost fell asleep while answering questions from journalist Prem Prakash. “I had to touch him gently to wake him up and tell him I could not present the Indian prime minister to the world in that (…)

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  Caricature - Tribute to Kodiyeri Balakrishnan | Jayaraj Vellur

  15 October 2022

  Kodiyeri Balakrishnan (16 November 1953 – 1 October 2022) was leading figure in the Kerala state unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)

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  Music: Saint-Saëns - Le Carnaval des Animaux, R. 125 - 12. Fossiles

  15 October 2022

  Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 - Saint-Saens: Le Carnaval des animaux & Danse macabre