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• Who wants war? | SG Vombatkere

  11 March 2022, by S G Vombatkere

  War and the Deep State
  Russia’s military attack on Ukraine starting 24 February 2022, is war. Whether or not countries are actually involved in war, war is always justified by one or more parties to the conflict, and condemned as unjustified by one or more parties.
  Both sides of the conflict and opinion have their arguments and “facts”, which are easily manufactured using fake news and deep-fake videos. Thus, long before the first physical casualty in fighting, the first casualty in war (…)

• Stand with Ukrainians and compel Russia to stop this war | Sandeep Pandey

  11 March 2022, by Sandeep Pandey

  There are two narratives about the Russia-Ukraine war in circulation. One is projecting invading Russia as the villain and demanding immediate cessation of hostilities. Second is holding United States foreign policy responsible for this which even after the cold war got over in 1991 was unnecessarily trying to provoke Russia by trying to expand North Atlantic Treaty Organisation making the new states which emerged from Union of Soviet Socialist Republic as its members. Russia felt insecure (…)

• Towards a Creative Merger with Rural Children: A Pedagogic Experiment | Avijit Pathak

  11 March 2022, by Avijit Pathak

  As a teacher, I have engaged primarily with university students. Yet, I have always felt that my participation in what we regard as ‘higher education’ should not be separated from school education. I can’t see myself as just a university intellectual—burdened with a heavy baggage of ‘knowledge’ and ‘research’, and separated from children, or the way they grow up as learners in families and schools. There are three reasons for my intense urge to engage with young children. First, I believe (…)

• Kancha Ilaiah’s "Why I’m not a Hindu" complements Ambedkar analysis of Caste | Aravind

  11 March 2022

  by Aravind *
  The right-wing nationalism that we see today is confined to labelling certain progressive forces as anti-nationals and urban naxals. As Dr Ambedkar said “Caste kills the public spirit” and precludes the emergence of the notion of nation. Any project of nationalism therefore has to be preceded by strongly advocating the agenda of ‘Annihilation of Caste’. The Post-Ambedkarite movement has thrown up a gamut of ways to achieve this by treading more or less the same path. But one (…)

• Gandhi and Panchayati Raj System in Present Context: Conundrum and Possibilities - Report of a National Webinar | Siby K. Joseph

  11 March 2022

  by Siby K. Joseph
  Sevagram Ashram Pratishthan, Wardha, Maharashtra in association with Gandhian Collective India and Faculty of Gandhian Studies, Gujarat Vidyapith, Ahmedabad had organized a National Webinar on the theme Gandhi and Panchayati Raj System in Present Context: Conundrum and Possibilities on February 13, 2022. Dr. Siby K. Joseph, Director, Sri Jamnalal Bajaj Memorial Library and Research Centre, Sevagram Ashram Pratishthan, Wardha gave a brief introduction about the Webinar and (…)

• Corporate Regulator’s Decision to Split MD and Chairman positions: Once Again Deferred | Nand L. Dhameja

  11 March 2022

  The Corporate Regulator, SEBI, has announced deferment of its decision to split the post of MD and Chairman with effect from March 31, 2022, the date extended date by two years in 2020.
  Sebi had announced in 2018, on the suggestions of the Uday Kotak Committee on Corporate Governance to amend provisions of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements (LODR) Regulations, 2015. As per the recommendations:
  a). positions of the chairman and managing director (MD/CEO) or chief (…)

• How to Read Contemporary Indian Politics? | Arup Kumar Sen

  11 March 2022, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Understanding politics and political theory is a contested terrain. Rajeev Bhargava’s thought-provoking book, What is PoliticalTheory and Why do We Need it? (Oxford University Press, 2010), addressed such contentious questions.He stated in the Preface of the book: “Sound moral and ethical judgements are dependent less on classroom lessons and more on rich lived experience”. While clarifying his own position on theorization of politics, Bhargava argued: “There is wealth of lived experience in (…)

• When Thoughts Find no Words | Badri Raina

  11 March 2022, by Badri Raina

  Then there are times When thoughts find no words. Like misbegotten embryos, sans Lips that form, eyes that see, Fingers that point, Their life tosses liquid in a miasma, Unable to shape the days to come.
  When that which is said is said often, Remains in effect unsaid, Like rain that falls incessant Far away from sight or hearing. When was the last you heard What I said, insistent in my Peroration? Or if you did, it did not show In how your pupils moved Or your head nodded. Nothing in the (…)

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  Caricature Tribute to Aijaz Ahmad | Jayaraj Vellur

  11 March 2022, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Video: Tariq Ali talks to Aijaz Ahmad - Part 1 and Part 2

  11 March 2022

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  Global Empire - The World We Live In Pt 1 by TeleSUR English https://youtu.be/BiQ8N041DfQ Play
  Global Empire - The World We Live In Part 2 by TeleSUR English https://youtu.be/-B1tVeavuio