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• Letter Number 2 To Kanhaiya Kumar - Reformism or How To Delegitimize The Legacy Of Marxism | Murzban Jal

  14 January 2022

  by Murzban Jal
  Philosophy comes into the world amid the loud cries of its enemies, who betray their inner infection by wild shouts for help against the fiery ardour of ideas. —Karl Marx, The Leading Article in No. 179 of the Kölnische Zeitung.
  Dear Ex-comrade Kanhaiya Kumar,
  Extreme urgency has compelled me to write again to you, especially in view that you are to assist the battle against the BJP and the Dharam Sansad (Religious Parliament) recently held in Haridwar where calls were (…)

• Negotiating questions of communal harmony, non-violence and justice: Mahatma Gandhi and the Malabar Rebellion of 1921 | Teresa Joseph and A.M.Thomas

  14 January 2022, by A. M. Thomas, Teresa Joseph

  Abstract
  The Malabar Rebellion (also known as the Mappilla/Moplah Rebellion) took place in the Malabar region of Madras Presidency, which is today a part of the state of Kerala in August 1921. The upsurge by a section of the Muslim community (Mappilas/Moplahs) of the region was the outcome of a long history of diverse factors and continues to be a contested issue. It caused a major turmoil at the time, both at the regional as well as national levels, particularly in the context of the (…)

• Rethinking the Paris Commune of 1871 | Arup Kumar Sen

  14 January 2022, by Arup Kumar Sen

  On the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Paris Commune of 1871, historian Laura C. Forster has raised fundamental questions about commemorating the great insurgency and what happened in its wake (See Laura C. Forster, ‘Radical Commemoration, the Politics of the Street, and the 150th Anniversary of the Paris Commune of 1871’, History Workshop Journal, Vol. 92, Autumn 2021). The questions raised and observations made by Forster illuminate our historical imagination. Forster (…)

• A Grim Reality We Are Ignoring | Humra Quraishi

  14 January 2022, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS
  January10, 2022
  A Grim Reality We Are Ignoring — Many More Muslim-Haters Could Be In The Making!
  All those arrested or detained so far in the Sulli Deals and Bulli Bai app case are the young. Young students to be precise. How could they carry such perversion cum hatred cum communal anger for the ‘other’?
  This very, very vital crux needs to be studied? That’s a different story altogether who would bother to go into the very crux, in an atmosphere when communal poisoning is (…)

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  Continuing online harassment of women journalists - Statement by Editors Guild of India | Jan 11, 2022

  14 January 2022

  The Editors Guild of India condemns the continuing online harassment of women journalists, which includes targeted and organised online trolling as well as threats of sexual abuse. What is further disturbing is that most of these attacks are targeted at journalists who have been outspokenly critical of the current government and the ruling party, in an effort to silence them under the intimidation of such attacks. This is a travesty of all democratic norms, and in violation of law.

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  Why this largesse to these private TSPs, when the public sector telecom firms starve, Statement by AITUC

  14 January 2022

  Press Statement by National Secretariat of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) on 13 January 2022
  Central Government’s Vi settlement is criminal
  Reports appearing in the newspapers (IE, 12.01.2022) regarding the Central Government converting Rs.16000 Cr interest dues from Vi (Vodafone Idea) into equity shares are shocking.
  It was known that Vi owed the Government Rs.58254 Cr as Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) alone, plus penal interest for late payment. The operators (Vodafone (…)

• Education as Life Itself: Thoughts on Prof. Avijit Pathak’s Retirement from JNU | Aishwarya Bhuta

  14 January 2022

  by Aishwarya Bhuta *
  Prof. Avijit Pathak is a sociologist, educationist, and one of the most authentic thinkers in Indian academia. He is a former professor at the Centre for Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He joined the University in March 1990 and has recently retired after 31 years of teaching. The first time I saw Prof. Pathak was when I went to seek my admission at the Jawaharlal Nehru University for an MA in Development and Labour Studies in July 2019. I was (…)

• South Korea’s anti-feminism surge offers political gain, but long-term pain | Kaylin Kim

  14 January 2022

  by Kaylin Kim
  Despite being the first archer in Olympic history to win three gold medals at a single Games, An San received thousands of hate comments online. She was criticised not for her performance at the 2020 Olympics, but because of her short haircut and enrolment at Kwangju Women’s University. Commentors accused An of being a feminist, a label that is stigmatised by many South Koreans who associate the term with hating men.
  A man who attend a rally in celebration of International (…)

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  Cartoon: Uttar Pradesh Based Kalashnikov Factory in India | Hemant Morparia (Jan 3, 2022)

  14 January 2022
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  Photos: Raymond Depardon’s perspective of Hanoi 1992

  14 January 2022