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  Caricature Tribute to Shiv Kumar Sharma | Jayaraj Vellur

  14 May 2022, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Statement on Afghanistan, by Ms Sima Bahous, Executive Director, UN Women (May 9, 2022)

  14 May 2022

  via: UN Women
  I am gravely concerned by the Taliban’s announcement that all women must cover their faces in public, that women should only leave their homes in cases of necessity, and that violations of this directive will lead to the punishment of their male relatives. Freedom of movement is a fundamental human right. It is an absolute prerequisite for women’s ability to exercise the full range of their rights and to be active participants in society. Where women’s rights are constrained, (…)

• Eyes in the wartime sky: Machines are learning to track wartime destruction | Hannes Mueller, Andre Groege

  14 May 2022

  by Hannes Muelle and Andre Groeger
  A new automated analysis of satellite imagery can reveal the extent of building destruction in conflict zones, providing vital information for humanitarian aid.
  Among the shocking images to emerge from Ukraine in recent weeks is the sight of civilian lives torn apart by shelling. Shredded apartment buildings, with their ordinary contents – microwaves, shoes, cushions – incongruously spilling into the muddy, rubble-strewn streets.
  Building destruction (…)

• Abolish Psychiatry | Campaign for Psychiatric Abolition

  14 May 2022

  The Fight for Psychiatric Abolition
  We are the Campaign for Psychiatric Abolition (CPA), a collective of psychiatric survivors who are fighting against the violence of policing, prisons and psychiatry. We want to demonstrate that our collective struggles against imperialism, racism, capitalism, cisheteropatriarchy and the climate catastrophe are also a struggle against psychiatry. We came together to form CPA after seeing how sometimes hostile radical spaces can be towards anti-psychiatry (…)

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  Music: Mountain Love Song | Shiv Kumar Sharma

  14 May 2022

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  Mountain Love Song by Shivkumar Sharma - Topic https://youtu.be/QFE1KoSjcbA

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  1920s advertisement for P&O and British India Shipping Lines that carried merchandise and passengers

  14 May 2022
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  Video: Prisoner No. 8677 - H Y Sharada Prasad Memorial Lecture by Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi (15 April 2022)

  14 May 2022

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  2022 HYSP Memorial Lecture by Gopalkrishna Gandhi: Prisoner No. 8677 MK Gandhi Yeravada Jail 1922-24 by sanjiva prasad https://youtu.be/EcUEusqLB34
  H Y Sharada Prasad Memorial Lecture was delivered by Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi on 15 April 2022 at India International Centre, New Delhi

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, May 7, 2022

  7 May 2022

  * Will The Indian Communist Leadership Read Dimitrov? | Ajayakumar Kodoth
  * Role & behaviour of judges in a majoritarian context | Arun Srivastava
  * USA, NATO and Russia: Ukraine Crisis may Spin Out of Control | Gautam Sen

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 7, 2022

  7 May 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 7, 2022
  World Health Organization (WHO) says that the worldwide death toll linked to Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021 is much higher than the cumulative official figures provided by the authorities of each country. “. . . the total toll directly or indirectly associated with the Covid-19 pandemic between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021 is approximately 14.9 million. dead (with a range of 13.3 million to 16.6 million),” the WHO wrote in a statement (…)

• Can Congress Stop Working For BJP? | TJS George

  6 May 2022, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  Some of our regional languages have a wisdom saying that goes: "Dad,.don’t keep beating me. I won’t improve." The current equivalent of that wisdom is: "Fellow citizens, don’t prefer this party over that. All are stuck in the same rut of opportunism." For a democracy, this is a tragic situation. But facts are facts, tragic or otherwise.
  Prashant Kishore thinks he can change this. Out of a scenario of cynicism, this man has emerged as a game-changer. He has (…)