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• Subhash Chandra Bose: Remembered in North East India | Ajailiu Niumai

  28 January 2022, by Ajailiu Niumai

  Subhash Chandra Bose was one of the first nationalist leaders in pre-independent India to set his foot in Northeast India, 3 years prior to India’s Independence in 1944. And, he brought the focus on the Northeast region in the Indian national movement. His decision to enter the Northeast region and Burma (Myanmar) was a well-planned strategy. Secondly, Northeast India has produced several freedom fighters and I won’t name each of them since today is a celebration of Netaji’s 125th birth (…)

• Citizens Safety and Security Forces in our Democracy | Humra Quraishi

  28 January 2022, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS - 26 January 2022
  Happy To See The Name of Sadaf Jafar In The List of Candidates For The Upcoming Elections
  No, I don’t know the Lucknow-based activist Sadaf Jafar. Never met her. Nor spoken to her. But can’t erase this backgrounder to her: Exactly two years back, when the anti- CAA protests were peaking, she was not just harassed and humiliated by the cops in Uttar Pradesh but even physically tortured. In her statement she had detailed how a particular male police officer in (…)

• Revisiting the Debate on the Repealed Farm Laws - Report of a webinar (April 10, 2021)

  28 January 2022

  This is a report of a webinar ’Discussing the Ongoing Framers Movement’ which was organised by Foundation for Creative Social Research, Delhi in collaboration with Society for Scientists and Technologists for a Non-Violent World Order and the Institute of Social Sciences. The Webinar was held in two sessions on 10 April 2021
  Session 1: Chair: Uma Shankari, Farmer and Activist | Speakers: T.S Ahuja, Lawyer; Harish Damodaran, Senior Fellow at CPR and distinguished JoThe Indian Express; (…)

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  A definitive account of 1971 war | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  28 January 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
  From East Pakistan to Bangladesh: Recollections of 1971 Liberation War
  by Brigadier R P Singh (Retd) and Hitesh Singh
  Vitasta
  ISBN: 9789390961375
  Pages: 545 | Price: Rs 995
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  Even as the United States, China and virtually the entire Islamic world stood by Pakistan despite its butchery of civilians in its eastern wing that became an independent Bangladesh, one country which quietly sided with India – despite being shunned diplomatically by New Delhi – was (…)

• Immensity of Vista | Ajit Das

  28 January 2022

  Sometimes at dead of night,
  as I sit by the reading light,
  memories reel back.
  The prism of youth, rainbow days,
  dreams of million hues
  started the journey of life;
  the stretch of hand measured all
  that came on the way.
  But, questions, doubts, en route,
  one by one, reined the gallop,
  blunted the steadfast stare;
  chances, success spilled
  beyond the dwarfing reach.
  Then, crept up the thought,
  gnawing deep at the heart,
  like an old pain
  that never goes, but lingers
  on the (…)

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  Photo: T. S. Satyan - Workers in India (1960)

  28 January 2022

• Nepal: G B Yakthumba - People’s General who revolted against Rana oligarchy | Mandeep Lama

  28 January 2022

  by Mandeep Lama
  This the story of one man’s vision and grit in freeing Nepal from the tyrannical Rana oligarchy, on how he cobbled up a valiant fighting force from a ragtag motley group of patriotic warriors, and eventually rid Nepal of its ‘Ranarchy’
  Part 1
  Prologue
  The ruling autocratic oligarchy of the Ranas had seized power in Nepal on the heels of the infamous palace armoury massacre of the 15th of September, 1846.
  The massacre had taken place on account of the murder of (…)

• Letter to Aldous Huxley refuting his characterisation of Congress views as anti-Science | Jawaharlal Nehru

  28 January 2022

  From: ’Jawaharlal Nehru on Science And Society - A Collection of his Writings and Speeches’ Edited by Baldev Singh. Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (1988) SCIENCE AND GANDHI *
  (Letter to Aldous Huxley refuting his characterisation of Congress views as anti-Science)
  Allahabad, September 1, 1933
  Dear Mr. Huxley
  A short while ago, I read in prison a little book called Science in the Changing World.
  A passage in your broadcast, included in this book, surprised and distressed me a (…)

• Michel Foucault: An Examination of Power | Cathal Larkin

  28 January 2022

  by Cathal Larkin
  An introduction to Michel Foucault’s concept of Power
  Michel Foucault is a philosopher whose politics everybody seems to have a differing opinion on. He has been called a disguised Marxist, both a secret and explicit anti-Marxist, a nihilist, a new conservative, a new liberal, a neutral interpretivist, a crypto-normativist, a principled anarchist as well as a dangerous left-wing one, and even a Gaullist technocrat. An American professor complained that an obvious KGB (…)

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  Music: Abide With Me

  28 January 2022

  Play
  Abide With Me - Audrey Assad by Audrey Assad https://youtu.be/84YASWe3_2Q
  Abide With Me" was written in 1847 by Scottish Anglican poet and hymnologist Henry Francis Lytethe. It was a favourite of Mahatma Gandhi and it used to be played regularly by an instrumental Band of the Indian Army since 1950 at the beating the retreat ceremony marking the official winding up of Republic Day celebrations in India. The hymn was dropped under the Narendra Modi Government on (…)