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• Autocracy in Lanka with a new face | Apratim Mukarji

  29 July 2022, by Apratim Mukarji

  Sri Lanka is now witnessing a much finer version of sophisticated and camouflaged autocracy than ever before. With the ‘fleeing’ former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa now scheduled to return home on 14 August after he had fled in fear of his life, President Ranil ‘Wily Fox’ Wickremasinghe and Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena have set about running the country with an iron hand.
  Their plus point is their ability to coat harsh words with reason while putting forth tough principles and (…)

• Panic-stricken Tories look for a Saviour | LK Sharma

  29 July 2022, by L K Sharma

  by L K Sharma
  Captured Conversations
  The End Is Nigh
  10 Downing Street
  Prime Minister Anthony Boswell: Welcome to the Conservative Core Group’s crucial meeting. Great Britain is on its deathbed. We face an existential crisis.
  Sir Pax Flumox-Lloyd: The communists said that for years about capitalism that marched on relentlessly.
  Prime Minister: This Scepter’d Isle is endangered!
  Sherman Wiseman: We have lived with this fear for long.
  Prime Minister: Didn’t we lose our Empire, (…)

• End of the Good Times for Artistic and Cultural Space in Putin’s Russia | Lola Kantor-Kazovsky

  29 July 2022

  by Lola Kantor-Kazovsky *
  Translated from Russian by Bela Nikitina
  The closure of “good theatres” in Moscow (I use good here as an analogy with “good Russians” —broad-minded & liberal in spirit) is hopeless barbarism, and I understand the shocked state of those of my Moscow friends who feel that they literally “lost their home”. The ‘Rashisty’ – [a mélange of the Russians and the Fascists], among whom are also former intellectuals, feel that it is finally their time to celebrate. (…)

• Understanding Patriarchy | Bell Hooks

  29 July 2022

  by Bell Hooks
  Patriarchy is the single most life-threatening social disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation. Yet most men do not use the word “patriarchy” in everyday life. Most men never think about patriarchy—what it means, how it is created and sustained. Many men in our nation would not be able to spell the word or pronounce it correctly. The word “patriarchy” just is not a part of their normal everyday thought or speech. Men who have heard and know the word usually (…)

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  Photo: 2nd Congress of the Communist International Meet in Petrograd in 1920

  29 July 2022

  On 19 July 1920, MPT Acharya and Mohammed Shafique traveled to Petrograd and attended the 2nd Congress of the Communist International as delegates of the Indian Revolutionary Association. It was here at the Third International that they met for the first time M.N. Roy, Evelyn Roy, and Abani Mukherji.

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  Photo: Recritment poster Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee Civil Rights Group, Atlanta, Georgia, 1963 | Danny Leon

  29 July 2022
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  Documentary film: In Company of Birds - Salim Ali | K. Premsingh Varma (1974)

  29 July 2022

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  In Company Of Birds ( Salim Ali) by Films Division https://youtu.be/rcI2zMzO3tw

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  Music: Gavaskar Calypso | Andy Narell & Relator

  29 July 2022

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  Gavaskar Calypso by Ritik Rana https://youtu.be/sege02Y4O0Y
  Song composed by Andy Narell & Relator in the West Indies for sir Sunil Gavaskar after the Indian Cricket team’s tour of the West-Indies in 1971

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  [bleu]Table of Contents, Mainstream, July 23, 2022[/bleu]

  22 July 2022

  * Rubber stamp or no, Murmu scores big for Adivasis | John Dayal
  * 50 years of Stockholm | Swapan Kumar Sil
  * Subverting Forest Rights Act 2006 To help Big corporations | Soma Marla
  * Press Release by Margaret Alva
  * Audio: A letter to Ukraine from Sarajevo | Aida Cerkez

• Rubber stamp or no, Murmu scores big for Adivasis | John Dayal

  22 July 2022, by John Dayal

  President-elect Draupadi Murmu, the first person from an indigenous peoples group to be in Rashtrapati Bhawan, has raised hopes among her 1.30 billion fellow citizens. Independent India’s 15th President may not be able to curb the corporate sector’s march into her beloved forests of central India, or ensure more constitutional posts for Scheduled Tribes, or to keep large numbers of their youth out of jail on trumped-up charges, but her ethnicity is surely a marker in the march of the (…)