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• Russia-Ukraine war: Israelis are in denial at parallels between their occupation and Putin’s | Gideon Levy

  22 April 2022

  by Gideon Levy *
  14 March 2022
  Both Russia and Israel justify their invasions under the auspices of ’self-defence’, and in both cases, that is untrue
  The shockwaves from the Russia-Ukraine war quickly reached Israel, revealing some embarrassing truths and challenging Israelis to see their country as it actually is - so very different than what they like to imagine.
  It began with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s declaration, or its subsequent military occupation, any different than (…)

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  Bertrand Russell Preparing to speak out against nuclear weapons on Trafalgar Square in 1961

  22 April 2022
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  Audio: What’s going on in Sri Lanka? With Sharika Thiranagama (April 14, 2022)

  22 April 2022
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  Documentary on Global Warming (1989) | Sagari Chhabra

  22 April 2022

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  Global Warming by Sagari Chhabra by Sagari Chhabra https://youtu.be/bRNbF6KSsC8
  Director’s note:
  It gives me great pleasure to share my documentary, ’ Global Warming’ (21 minutes, English commentary, 1989).
  The film was awarded the World Food Day Award by the Food & Agricultural Organisation (United Nations) and the Indian Association for the Advancement of Science in 1989.
  I am deeply grateful to all the scientists who gave their valuable insights when I (…)

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, April 16, 2022

  15 April 2022

  * India’s Agribusiness Firms Consolidate Power | Pritam Singh
  * Agitated Lankans Could Learn From Their Calm Indian Counterparts | Badri Raina
  * A.R. Wadia (1888-1971) - Remembering a Liberal Educationist | Murzban Jal
  * Russia’s assault on Ukraine - An appeal to everyone who speaks Russian

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 16, 2022

  15 April 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 16, 2022
  Summary justice with disregard for rule of law has been on open display in Madhya Pradesh following Ram Navami violence in Khargone recently. Police rounded up and arrested over 70 odd suspects involved in the violence in Kahrgone and a day after the violence sent in bulldozers to demolish their homes or shops and some 45 properties were demolished. Institutions of the state and the enforcement agencies are supposed to strictly follow the (…)

• India’s Agribusiness Firms Consolidate Power | Pritam Singh

  15 April 2022, by Pritam Singh

  Agribusiness corporations have been on the rise in India since the 1970s. Unless there is a change in government policy, smaller farms face a bleak future.
  April 5, 2022
  A qualitative change took place in Indian agriculture in the 1970s: the government then had announced that the country had achieved domestic food self-sufficiency, and also that India had a surplus of food for export.
  Fifty years on, this idea of achieving a food surplus remains elusive for India, especially since the (…)

• Agitated Lankans Could Learn From Their Calm Indian Counterparts | Badri Raina

  15 April 2022, by Badri Raina

  Sri Lankan people are mostly sedate and peace-loving by temperament.
  But, now, they are agitated about the grave conditions in their pretty Island home.
  Things, they say, have been mismanaged to the worst they could.
  So, their agitation is understandable, but, as custodians of order tell us, , agitations are not good.
  Agitations bring bad name to duly elected governments.
  And, duly elected governments are never wrong. Only those agitations are kosher which (…)

• Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India: Hate brings ruination | Faraz Ahmad

  15 April 2022, by Faraz Ahmad

  Sri Lankan politics has turned 180 degrees with the Sri Lankan Buddhist haters of the Tamil minority, who celebrated and danced on the streets of Colombo when the majoritarian Buddhist regime of Mahinda Rajapaksa wiped the Liberation of Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE) out from the northern Jafna province, after capturing alive its leader Velupillai Prabhakaran in a net, tortured him mercilessly and humiliated him thoroughly before killing him.
  Even the Tamil civilian population was not (…)

• A.R. Wadia (1888-1971). Remembering a Liberal Educationist in the Age of Post-Liberalism | Murzban Jal

  15 April 2022

  by Murzban Jal
  When the old liberal world dies and authoritarianism takes its place, it is definitely the time to mourn. But it is also a time for remembrance, remembrance where memories of making the world a better place can be evoked.
  There was definitely a time where teachers were recruited at least where the dreams of a free, cultured and educated India could be possible. At least then in the good old days, teachers and Vice Chancellors were recruited with larger goals in mind. And (…)