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• Inside a reintegration camp for Colombia’s ex-guerrilla fighters: ‘Words of reconciliation are our only weapons now’ | Gomez & Hart

  17 June 2022

  by Camilo Tamayo Gomez and Gavin Hart **
  June 6, 2022
  The election of Iván Duque four years ago was a threat for us. But we will continue to follow the peace agreement regardless of who is the next president of Colombia. We are more determined than ever to comply with the peace accords, and this is the reason they want to kill us.
  Olmedo Vega spent 35 years as a guerrilla commander during Colombia’s armed conflict – one of the longest the world has ever seen. “The FARC is my (…)

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  1898 Botanical Illustration: Spring Flowers by Adolphe Philippe Millot

  17 June 2022

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  via: Nouveau Larousse illustré, 1898

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  Photo of Artists Ram Kumar, MF Husain, Tyeb Mehta and his wife Sakina Mehta in 1993

  17 June 2022

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  Music: Mandingo Ambassadors N’Diagno | Tougna

  17 June 2022

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  Mandingo Ambassadors N’Diagno by EngineStudiosNYC https://youtu.be/26fZR8lXHdY
  Off the record, Tougna released July 24, 2012 on Engine Studios, Brooklyn NY.
  Guitarist, Mamady Kouyate, draws on the musical expressions in his native Guinea. He was part of emerging musical currents in newly independent Guinea. In 2004, Mamady moved to the USA as a political refugee and formed "Mandingo Ambassadors."

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, June 11, 2022

  11 June 2022

  * Social Unrest And National Security | S G Vombatkere
  * High Command culture and Democracy in India | P S Jayaramu
  * Towards Prudent Fiscal Management in Assam | A Sarma and S Sunder
  * Stop talk of purity of races - Concerned Scholars’ Letter to the Ministry of Culture
  * Not all the Soviet dead of the World War II were ’Russians’ | Yorgos Mitralias
  * Nationalism and Economic Life | Leon Trotsky

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 11, 2022

  11 June 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 11, 2022
  Muslims and other minorities in India have long been repeated targets of intimidation, discrimination, hate speech, and communal violence but this process has seen an acceleration since mid-2014 with a new style of aggressive Hindu Right and the BJP-led government allowing a whole majoritarian ideological and media eco-system to flourish. A daily fare of communal slurs and innuendo have become normalised on TV and in society with officials (…)

• Social Unrest And National Security | S.G.Vombatkere

  11 June 2022, by S G Vombatkere

  Nupur Sharma and Naveen Kumar Jindal reportedly made remarks against Prophet Muhammad. Indian Muslims are outraged. Islamic nations Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and Iran, have taken serious diplomatic objection, and Qatar has reportedly demanded “public apology” from India.
  In some of these countries, there are “... protests being lodged with the Indian missions, Indian goods being moved out of the supermarts, hashtags against India’s treatment of (…)

• High Command culture and Democracy in India | P S Jayaramu

  11 June 2022

  by P S Jayaramu
  31st May, 2022
  Since direct democracy is not possible to be practised, countries across the world have accepted indirect democracy, be it Parliamentary or Presidential system. The central feature of such a system lies in the importance attached to the role of political parties in the practice of democratic form of government. In India, after much deliberation in the Constituent Assembly, we accepted the Parliamentary system of Government. We have noticed, over the (…)

• Caste Census is precursor to war of attrition between Modi and Nitish for the top job | Arun Srivastava

  11 June 2022

  by Arun Srivastava
  With the opposition parties yet to project their candidate who can take on directly Narendra Modi at the 2024 Lok Sabha elections for the office of the prime minister, the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has thrown his cap in the ring. An astute politician, he refrained from making a public announcement, but he made his intentions known to the political fraternity by proclaiming to implement the caste census programme in Bihar.
  Modi and his mentor RSS has been (…)

• Hindu Hate versus The Mahatma | M R Narayan Swamy

  11 June 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

  It was pathetic to hear the other day a BJP spokesperson pour venom on the Prophet. Abusing the icon of a religion cannot be accepted in any sensible society. What was said was not just a punch delivered at Islam but at all the good things that Hindu religion stands for. Equally important, the remarks were a slap on the face of what Mahatma Gandhi repeatedly preached.
  The Mahatma agonized in his last 200 days. This was when all that he had believed in appeared to be crashing amid wild (…)