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  Jahangirpuri Demolitions: Letter to CM Delhi protesting women’s loss of livelihoods

  6 May 2022

  To: Shri Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister of Delhi 5 May 2022
  Subject: Loss of women’s livelihoods and Jahangirpuri Demolitions
  Dear Shri Kejriwal:
  We the undersigned academics, policy advisors, and civil society practitioners, all working on aspects of Gender and the Economy in India, are deeply shocked by the spate of demolitions carried out by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation in the Jahangirpuri resettlement colony on April 20, 2022.
  The most tragic victims of this targeted (…)

• What is the profit-shifting behaviour of India’s emerging multinationals? | Khanindra Ch. Das (Wider, 2022)

  6 May 2022

  This paper examines the profit-shifting behaviour of emerging multinational firms from India. It is found that the before-tax profitability of subsidiaries differs according to whether they were established directly or via an Offshore Financial Centre (OFC).

• Peru: The Broken Dream of Transformative Government? | Alejandra Dinegro Martínez

  6 May 2022

  by Alejandra Dinegro Martínez *
  April 28, 2022
  Eight months in, the administration of Pedro Castillo, whose victory in the 2021 elections was once a symbol of transformation and hope, is now closer to a nightmare. The dream of a government that could have laid the foundation for a process of structural transformation seems unattainable. This is a severe blow to the Left, just as it is for voters who share the current president’s background, habits, cultural practices, and common (…)

• Ukraine Crisis may Spin Out of Control - Absence of Strategic Dialogue between USA — NATO and Russia | Gautam Sen

  6 May 2022

  by Gautam Sen *
  The Ukraine war or special military operations to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine as termed by Russian president Vladimir Putin soon after he launched a multi-dimensional military campaign on 24th February 2022, is in its fourth month with no sign of it de-escalating. There is a pause or rather different orientation to the Russian assault since March 2022 end, but no de-escalation in the real sense. Western sources indicate a strong military noose put by the Russian (…)

• Female Face of Russian Anti-war Movement: Why Women Protest? | Ella Rossman

  6 May 2022

  By Ella Rossman April 25, 2022
  Since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine and the following establishment of de facto martial law in Russia, Russians have been protesting against the war. Though this protest is weak and fragmented and exposed to government repression, it is ongoing in many cities and towns of Russia. It includes not only street demonstrations and pickets but also invisible forms of resistance, like sabotage at work or different ways of distribution of information (…)

• Keeping Quiet | Pablo Neruda

  6 May 2022

  by Pablo Neruda
  Now we will count to twelve
  and we will all keep still.
  For once on the face of the earth,
  let’s not speak in any language;
  let’s stop for one second,
  and not move our arms so much.
  It would be an exotic moment
  without rush, without engines;
  we would all be together
  in a sudden strangeness.
  (Fisherman in the cold sea
  would not harm whales
  and the man gathering salt
  would look at his hurt hands.
  Those who prepare green wars,
  wars with gas, wars with fire, (…)

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  Film Still from Mr and Mrs 55 | ’Are you a Communist? No, I am a Cartoonist!’

  6 May 2022
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  Plan of the town of Madras and its limits, as surveyed in 1822 for the use of the Justices in Sessions by W. Ravenshaw Captain Civil Engineer

  6 May 2022
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  Music: Songs from the Spanish Civil War / Canciones de la Guerra Civil Española / Rolando Alarcón / Album Completo

  6 May 2022

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  Canciones de la Guerra Civil Española / Rolando Alarcón / Album Completo by Alerce La Otra Música https://youtu.be/2zczriUBRA0

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, April 30, 2022

  29 April 2022

  * A Mess Called India’s Health Sector | Govind Bhattacharjee
  * Women Workers & Emerging Body Rules in Service Work in India | Asiya Islam
  * BJP’s Propaganda Mechanism | Nagender Madavaram
  * India’s Anti-Conversion Laws attack the Dignity of Dalits, Adivasis & Women | Joe Tharamangalam