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  The Sculptor Pinuccio Sciola on Stone and Beyond - a film by Franco Fais (sub.Eng)

  3 June 2022

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  SCIOLA OLTRE LA PIETRA - Franco Fais (sub.Eng) by francofais https://youtu.be/lkq33RNZpL4
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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, May 28, 2022

  27 May 2022

  * Politics of Telangana & Andhra Pradesh in Post-Bifurcation Period | Karli Srinivasulu
  * Allah Baksh and Indian Nationhood | Anil Nauriya
  * Exodus from Sri Lanka to India | Apratim Mukarji
  * The Staying Power of A Myth | Emma Goldman
  * Audio: The Day of the Jackal Audiobook by Frederick Forsyth

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 28, 2022

  27 May 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 28, 2022
  The world renowned health journal The Lancet just published a new report on the impact of pollution on health. This study uses data from 2019 data to update its 2017 findings of the Lancet Commission on pollution and health. It reports that 9 million deaths happened worldwide due to air pollution and finds that deaths from pollution risk factors have gone up by 7 per cent since 2015. The Lancet report says that 1.6 million deaths occurred in (…)

• Politics of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh: Mapping Trajectories of Change in the Post-Bifurcation Period | Karli Srinivasulu

  27 May 2022, by Karli Srinivasulu

  The state of Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated into the two states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh (AP) in 2014 after nearly six decades of existence. It is more than seven years since they came into being as two separate states. Two elections to their state assemblies and two parliamentary elections in 2014 and 2019 have been conducted, leading to a restructuring of political regimes, strengthened development-welfare policy focus, new political contestations, and enhanced modes of coopting and (…)

• Relevance of Nehru’s Legacy of Democracy, Secularism, Socialism, Peace and Non-Alignment Has Increased Further | Bharat Dogra

  27 May 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  Thoughts on On the Death Anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru — 27 May
  It is a true mark of greatness if what a leader struggles to achieve in his lifetime is widely realized to be even more valuable in the years or decades after he has left the world. This is exactly how Jawaharlal Nehru is being remembered by more and more people of his country, despite a persistent tendency on the part of the present right-wing government to deny the greatness of his achievements and legacy. At a wider level (…)

• Retreat of the State in Financing of Higher Education - Questions over the funding of MD University, Rohtak | Rajinder Chaudhary

  27 May 2022

  by Rajinder Chaudhary
  Fortunately, but unusually, recently financing of higher education in Haryana was under spotlight after the Finance Department of Haryana issued a notification sanctioning loan of Rs 147.75 crore to publicly funded Universities of Haryana. Newspapers reported that this loan was in lieu of annual grant-in-aid. Right at that time, a joint forum of students’ organisations of MD University, Rohtak had been agitating seeking roll back of doubling of various kind of fees (…)

• Allah Baksh and Indian Nationhood | Anil Nauriya

  27 May 2022, by Anil Nauriya

  (Online Lecture by Anil Nauriya on 14 May 2022 at Commemorative Function on Allah Baksh organised by the Society for Communal Harmony).
  The 79th Anniversary of the assassination of Allah Baksh (spelt also as Bakhsh, Buksh and Bux) fell on May 14, 2022.
  Why is it important to remember Allah Baksh and to commemorate this day?
  All communalism thrives on stereotypes. Many of the stereotypes being circulated in the colonial interest have also strengthened communal stereotypes and (…)

• Gyanvapi, Mathura Idgah, Qutab - BJP agenda: Scrap PoW Act, 1991 | Faraz Ahmad

  27 May 2022, by Faraz Ahmad

  The BJP has opened its cards for the coming polls, right up to the 2024 general elections—whip up a frenzy over Gyanvapi Masjid of Varanasi, Idgah in Mathura, even Qutub Minar in Delhi and a host of other historical monuments and thereby seek to scrap the Places of Worship (PoW) Act, 1991, which expressly forbids any alteration or claim on any place of worship other than those in whose care or possession it existed on 15 August, 1947, the day India achieved independence. The Act while (…)

• Reading the Literary Imagination of Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Arup Kumar Sen

  27 May 2022, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a big name in Latin American Literature. One may be interested to know how he made his entry into the world of literature. To put it in his own words: “It had never occurred to me that I could be a writer, but in my student days Eduardo Zalamea Borda, editor of the literary supplement of ElEspectador, in Bogota, published a note in which he said that the younger generation of writers had nothing to offer, that a new short-story writer, a new novelist, could not be (…)

• Exodus from Sri Lanka to India | Apratim Mukarji

  27 May 2022, by Apratim Mukarji

  The searing and prolonged economic-political crisis in Sri Lanka has now expectedly turned into a refugee exodus from the island-nation to India, whch is the traditional haven for Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka.
  The failure of the Sri Lankan government to tackle the economic crisis even two years after the first rumblings of deep discontent were heard has now gulvanised Sri Lankan society---consisting of all the three main religions, Sinhalese Buddhists, Hindu Tamils, and Muslims, and (…)