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  Audio: A letter to Ukraine from Sarajevo | Aida Cerkez

  22 July 2022

  One Sarajevo siege survivor, Aida Cerkez’s letter to citizens of Kyiv

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  Music: La Negra Graciana - Graciana Silva Garcia

  22 July 2022

  Moliendo café · La Negra Graciana ·
  Moliendo café aux Portales (Le son de Veracruz)
  ℗ Accords Croises
  Released on: 2004 Play
  Moliendo café by La Negra Graciana - Topic https://youtu.be/Bdrmjg5U2ck

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  [bleu]Table of Contents, Mainstream, July 16, 2022[/bleu]

  15 July 2022

  * New Cooperative Ministry in India: Its implications | Chatukulam and Jose
  * Withdraw FIR against Medha Patkar - Stop Persecution of Activists
  * Sri Lanka Economic Crisis & Popular Revolt | B Skanthakumar
  * Rightwing ideologues & Putin’s dream of an expansionist Russia | Juliette Faure

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 16, 2022

  15 July 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 16, 2022
  The Republic of India’s institutions of state and governance have been under strain over the past decades. But, the post-2014 phase stands in a league of its own. The ruling BJP holds absolute dominance and control in the Parliament and beyond. We are living in a situation where the opposition is very small in numbers and facing a state of siege both inside and outside the Parliament. There is a near breakdown of trust, between the ruling (…)

• Political Parties and 75 years of Indian Democracy | P.S. Jayaramu

  15 July 2022, by P S Jayaramu

  by P.S. Jayaramu *
  5th July, 2022
  Indian Parliamentary democracy is in its 75th year. While many things can be said about its positive aspects there are equally powerful arguments about the debasing of the system like the steep decline in the functioning of the Parliament as well as State legislatures manifested in frequent disruptions in the functioning of the Houses, dharnas, opposition members walking into the the well of the House, governments getting Bills passed in the din of the (…)

• New Cooperative Ministry in India: An Analysis of the Implied Strategy of Development for the Consideration of Policy Makers | A. M. Jose & Jos Chathukulam

  15 July 2022, by A. M. Jose, Jos Chathukulam

  by A. M. Jose & Jos Chathukulam *
  Abstract
  A controversy has erupted in India over the formation of a new Ministry of Co-operation by the Union government. There has been widespread criticism that the Union government is weakening the ‘cooperative federalism’ by encroaching into an area of state government’s prerogative. This article looks into the merit of this controversy by examining the role of Cooperatives in an economy and what role the governments should play in making the (…)

• Sri Lanka’s Crisis is Endgame for Rajapaksas | B. Skanthakumar

  15 July 2022, by B. Skanthakumar

  by B. Skanthakumar
  13 July 2022
  Sri Lanka’s citizens’ movement known as the Janatha Aragalaya (‘Peoples’ Struggle’), notched its most significant victory yet, when Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced through the Speaker of Parliament that he would quit on 13 July, mid-way through his presidency. His admission of surrender, after resisting for months the central demand of public protests — #GotaGoHome — in the political fallout of the island’s devastating economic crisis
  More than 100,000 (…)

• Sri Lankan Crisis: Lessons to be learnt | Ram Puniyani

  15 July 2022

  by Ram Puniyani
  The crisis in Sri Lanka has shaken not only the citizens of Sri Lanka but also the neighbors and the World as a whole. At one level there is a humanitarian crisis at another we can see the impact of autocratic discriminatory policies on the citizens, particularly workers, Tamil and Muslim minority and average people. The sight of thousands of people surrounding and occupying the house of President and putting private house of Prime Minister Ranilsinghe on fire is very (…)

• Presidential election; Modi on the mission to break opposition unity to ensure Sinha’s defeat | Arun Srivastava

  15 July 2022

  by Arun Srivastava
  The opposition leaders have not only abandoned their presidential candidate Yshwant Sinha but have betrayed him. After three senior leaders declined to be the opposition candidate to oppose the BJP’s nominee, Sinha was the fourth choice to fill the void. Opposition formally agreed on his name even before the BJP could finalise its candidate.
  Ironically just after Narendra Modi announced the name of Draupadi Murmum the opposition leaders started sulking and distancing (…)

• Need for Caution and Widespread Consultation on Public Health Bill | Bharat Dogra

  15 July 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  The Government is in the process of finalizing a new public health bill while repealing the 125-year-old Epidemic Diseases Act of 1897. While few will question the need for replacing such an old and outdated law, there is also urgent need for carefully studying the various provisions of the new bill so that it is not coercive and does not violate of basic rights of citizens. There are at least five reasons which prompt the need for such caution.
  Firstly, in 2017 a different bill was (…)