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• Clevenger’s Review of Levett, G, ed., Sport in History Podcast

  5 March 2022

  Reviewed by Samuel Clevenger (Towson University)
  __0__ Sport in History Podcast. United Kingdom:
  British Society of Sports History, 2020-21
  by Geoff Levett, ed.
  Podcast, https://www.sportinhistory.org/categories/podcast __0__ Published on H-Podcast (February, 2022)
  Since 2020, the British Society for Sports History (BSSH), self-described as the United Kingdom’s “leading scholarly society for the history of sport,” has produced a podcast titled Sport in History Podcast. As of this (…)

• Birthday | Ajit Das

  5 March 2022

  BIRTHDAY
  What’s special about birthday?
  When you came to the world,
  you just filled in a vacancy,
  creating another in the future
  to be filled when you’ll depart.
  It’s a remembrance that ends
  with the outer glitter fading.
  Then life moves on as usual,
  staying close to the route,
  wary of charting unknown paths.
  You remain satisfied, engrossed
  in small joy, but feel heartbroken,
  when small sorrow befalls you.
  Sailing on wavelets of a placid sea,
  you navigate to another shore. (…)

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  Video: Asli Azaadi (True Freedom) a documentary film on women freedom fighters from India | Sagari Chhabra

  5 March 2022

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWrctt5xwP4
  Note from The director:
  I am delighted to share, ’ Asli Azaadi’ - True Freedom ( 1999, 48 mins. English commentary & subtitles) on India’s women freedom fighters.
  Watch the amazing contribution of the women who were members of the Rani of Jhansi regiment - one of the earliest all-woman military regiments of the world - the brainchild of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Meet the unknown women who worked with or were influenced by Mahatma (…)

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  Music: Hélène Grimaud Plays Johann Sebastian Bach - Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 (arr. Ferruccio Busoni)

  5 March 2022

  Play
  Hélène Grimaud: Bach - Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 (arr. Ferruccio Busoni) by wocomoMUSIC https://youtu.be/dOHiI_5yycU
  The Partita in D minor for solo violin (BWV 1004) by Johann Sebastian Bach was written between 1717 and 1720. It is a part of his compositional cycle called Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin.

• Russian invasion of Ukraine on Feb 24 2022 - Official & International Statements and Media Coverage

  5 March 2022

  Address by the President of the Russian Federation - February 24, 2022, Moscow
  Russia has launched a new military operation against our state, martial law is being imposed throughout Ukraine - 24 February 2022 | The Presidential Office of Ukraine
  Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine on the new wave of aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine - 24 February 2022, Kiev
  Press statement by President von der Leyen on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine - 24 (…)

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  Russia’s Feminists Statement Against Putin’s War on Ukraine of Feb 2022

  5 March 2022

  by Feminist Anti-War Resistance
  Translation by Anastasia Kalk, Jan Surman
  The below text is a manifesto by Russian feminists who have united against the occupation and war in Ukraine. Feminism is one of the few opposition movements in contemporary Russia that has not been destroyed by the waves of persecution launched by Vladimir Putin’s government. At the moment, several dozen grassroots feminist groups are operating in at least thirty Russian cities. In this text, feminists taking part (…)

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  Declaration 2022 - Call for Peace from the International Scientific Community by Nobel Laureates (March 3, 2022)

  5 March 2022

  More than 100 Nobel Laureates from various disciplines are calling for peace in the face of the war in Ukraine emanating from Russian soil
  Declaration 2022
  In the view of war emanating from Russian soil and the explicit threat of nuclear weapons, we, Nobel laureates in science, economics, and literature, have decided to make this appeal to government leaders.
  While we, as scientists, have no political mandate, we are aware of the power that the knowledge we have gained conveys to (…)

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  CNDP Statement on Ukraine

  5 March 2022

  Statement on Ukraine
  "The Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) India, expresses its grave concern at the situation in Ukraine. The CNDP calls for an immediate end to the invasion and for wide-ranging peace talks covering all the relevant issues—including security guarantees for the Russian Federation, the freedom and rights of the people of Ukraine which includes the legitimate concerns of the Russian-speaking regions in Ukraine.
  We are concerned about statements made by (…)

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  South Asian Doctors call for immediate cessation of war between Russia and Ukraine | 28 February 2022

  5 March 2022

  Joint statement by the South Asian affiliates of IPPNW on Russia Ukraine conflict
  Date: 28.02.2022
  Various affiliates of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) from South Asian countries have expressed grave concern at the serious health and humanitarian crisis due to war between Russia and Ukraine. Affiliates who participated in a virtual meet include Pakistan Doctors for Peace and Development (PDPD), Physicians for Social Responsibility Nepal (PSRN), (…)

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  India: Statement by Radical Socialist on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine (Mar. 1, 2022)

  5 March 2022

  [March 1, 2022]
  1. We condemn Russia as an imperialist aggressor using the dreams of an old imperial epoch to justify expansionism, and are deeply concerned at this precedent that may later affect any other former Soviet republic.
  2. As when the US invaded Iraq, we do not use the language of diplomacy, we do not seek UN intervention, but call for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the aggressors.
  3. This demand does not date only to 2022. We demand the Russian withdraw from (…)