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• Environmental, Social Responsibility (ESG): New Age Financial Reporting | Nand L. Dhameja

  1 April 2022

  by Nand L. Dhameja *
  March 15, 2022 ESG is the acronym for Environmental, Social and Governance. It is being used in capital markets and by investors to evaluate corporate behaviour and to determine the expected future financial performance of companies. ESG criteria is a subset of non-financial indicators which include sustainable, ethical and corporate governance issues like managing the organisation’s carbon, environmental and social factors; such ESG criteria is attracting greater (…)

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  Book Review: Quraishi’s The Population Myth | Chanda Rani and Aamir Raza

  1 April 2022

  Reviewers: Chanda Rani and Aamir Raza * __0__
  The Population Myth: Islam, family Planning and Politics in India by S.Y. Quraishi
  HarperCollins India 2021, 256 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9390351545 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9390351541 __0__
  In recent years particularly after the landslide victory of the BJP in 2014 its followers, leaders and biased Media have vigorously perpetuated the propaganda that Muslims are deliberately increasing their population to outnumber the Hindus in India. A common (…)

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  Cartoon: This is a No-Fly Zone | Nala Ponnappa

  1 April 2022

• The Bird | Sagari Chhabra

  1 April 2022, by Sagari Chhabra

  This morning I saw a bird
  on top of a pine tree,
  perched on its pinnacle
  on a mere twig;
  it was feeling the air,
  swaying with the breeze,
  surveying the snow-capped Himalayas
  in utter ease.
  She was a tiny, feathered cobalt blue;
  I do not know her name,
  nor do I wish to know;
  I want it to be, just so.
  She was telling me to be:
  dear human being
  why are you always doing,
  doing so much;
  there is nothing more
  than peace, as such.
  I gazed at the mountains,
  tall and majestic, (…)

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  Video: Reviving River Ganga - lecture by Dr Ravi Chopra | March 2022

  1 April 2022

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  Reviving River Ganga - River lecture by Dr. Ravi Chopra by Waterconflictforum Waterconflictforum https://youtu.be/kN3u9h6KHx0

• Ukraine war shows ‘nuclear deterrence’ doesn’t work. We need disarmament | Rebecca Johnson

  1 April 2022

  by Rebecca Johnson
  24 March 2022
  Despite leaders’ claims, nuclear weapons don’t prevent war or make life safer or more peaceful – they put the survival of the whole planet at risk
  In late February, as his invasion of Ukraine became bogged down, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia’s nuclear forces had been put on ‘special alert’. This posturing is familiar in wargame scenarios. It frequently ends with nuclear weapons being launched.
  So, how did we get back to believing that nuclear (…)

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  Open Letter From Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and Citizens of the World Against War and Nuclear Weapons

  1 April 2022

  We reject war and nuclear weapons. We call on all our fellow citizens of the world to join us in protecting our planet, home for all of us, from those who threaten to destroy it.
  The invasion of Ukraine has created a humanitarian disaster for its people. The entire world is facing the greatest threat in history: a large-scale nuclear war, capable of destroying our civilization and causing vast ecological damage across the Earth.
  We call for an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of (…)

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  Music: Victor Jara - El Derecho de Vivir en Paz (The right to live in peace) 1971 Album

  1 April 2022

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  Victor Jara - El Derecho de Vivir en Paz (Álbum completo) by Victor Jara - Música https://youtu.be/WSg53srhQyQ
  Track list:
  00:00 El Derecho de Vivir en Paz
  04:35 Abre la Ventana
  08:30 La Partida
  11:56 El Niño Yuntero
  15:41 Vamos por Ancho Camino
  18:59 A la Molina No Voy Más
  22:11 A Cuba
  26:11 Las Casitas del Barrio Alto
  28:41 El Alma Llena de Banderas
  32:41 Ni Chicha Ni Limoná
  36:04 Plegaria a un Labrador
  39:20 Brigada Ramona Parra
  42:35 Oíga Pues (…)

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, March 26, 2022

  25 March 2022

  * Lived Body Experience of Women in Prostitution | Sur & Chakraborty
  * Integrating struggles of Farmers, Fishers & Forest Dwellers | Dholakia & Ramakrishnan
  * The Congress Party: towards reinvention or split? | Jayaramu
  * Russia Must End the Invasion of Ukraine | Rajimwale

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, March 26, 2022

  25 March 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 26, 2022
  Brutal social violence and revenge killings in which numerous people were burnt to death in Rampurhat, in West Bengal made big news recently. A village council political functionary was murdered triggering counter-violence leading to 8 people being burnt to death. These killings are being read as part of the prevalent culture of ‘political’ violence? Why do political actors use violence? A police investigation may tell more about the case (…)