Mainstream WeeklyFulfillment of human life is in utilising many small and big opportunities in daily life to take happiness to others. The supreme fulfillment is in the ability to achieve this even when faced with much personal distress.
This is the most noble message which the famous Hindi film Anand took to millions of admiring film-viewers in 1971. In the 50 years since this, the admiration for this iconic film and its message has only grown. This film has been included in several listings of ‘must see’ (…)
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50 Years of Anand — The Film Which Underlined the Purpose of Human Life in Taking Happiness to Others | Bharat Dogra
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Lust and Murder Most Foul | M.R. Narayan Swamy
15 October 2021, by M R Narayan SwamyMurder on the Menu: The Sensational Story of the Tycoon who Founded Saravana Bhavan
by Nirupama Subramanian
Juggernaut
2021 Pages: 190; Price: Rs 499
ISBN-10 : 9391165303 ISBN-13 : 978-9391165307 __0__
It is difficult to believe this actually happened in our times; not in the Chambal but in Tamil Nadu. The outlines of a murder the founder of the iconic Saravana Bhavan chain of restaurants ordered because he wanted to marry the victim’s wife is known. What ace journalist (…) -
Marina Cardozo. Review of Giannattasio, Valerio, Il fascismo nella Banda Oriental
15 October 2021Reviewed by Marina Cardozo (Universdad de la República, Uruguay)
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Il fascismo nella Banda Oriental
Valerio Giannattasio
Rome: Edizioni Nuova Cultura
2020. 292 pp.
EUR 28.00 (paper)
ISBN 978-88-336-5318-1
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Fascism in Uruguay
This innovative volume reconstructs twenty years of Italian-Uruguayan relations, with special attention given to the fascist penetration in Uruguay, through channels of diplomacy, the press, and a network of Italian Fasci in the South (…) -
Circles of impunity: why sexual violence by humanitarians and peacekeepers keeps happening | Mukesh Kapila
15 October 2021by Mukesh Kapila *
October 8, 2021
I first visited the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1994 during the genocide in neighbouring Rwanda. In Goma’s emergency hospital, I witnessed rows and rows of rape survivors who had fled across the border.
A quarter-century later, it is hurting again in the same place, for the same reason: sexual violence. But what is different is that the alleged perpetrators are humanitarians, sent to save the community from a deadly (…) -
Afghanistan: Taliban came to power in a disgraceful American deal | Malalai Joya
15 October 2021by Malalai Joya
October 11, 2021
Twenty years after the U.S. launched their invasion and war, the people of my long-suffering country are right back where we started. After trillions of dollars spent, and hundreds of thousands killed and displaced, the Taliban flag is once again flying over Afghanistan.
As the youngest woman elected to Afghanistan’s Parliament back in 2005, my experience reflects the failure of the U.S. and NATO war — a policy that used women’s rights as a pretext (…) -
The Children and Psychology | Paul Goodman
15 October 2021[Paul Goodman, who was born in 1911, was a novelist, poet, playwright, social critic, a psychologist, and an anarchist public intellectual who wrote several books - which include Gestalt Therapy (Julian Press), The Structure of Literature (Univ. of Chicago), and Growing up Absurd (Vintage Books), Compulsory Mis-education/The Community of Scholars (Random House).
The below essay by Goodman appeared in the journal Anarchy of January 1962]
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by Paul Goodman
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Caricature: Rajnath Singh putting Words in Gandhi’s Mouth to Shore up Savarkar | Jayaraj Vellur
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Glasgow Cotton Spinning Mill: Changing the Bobbin, 1907 - Painting by Suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst
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Míra Holzbachová the avant-garde Czech dancer - performing during the Spanish Civil War, Valencia, 1937
15 October 2021Walter Reuter’s Photo of Prima Ballerina Míra Holzbachová the avant-garde Czech dancer - performing on the Roof during the Spanish Civil War, Valencia, 1937 in Attaque de Gaz (Gas Attack), a pantomime show
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Video: Peace Movements Take on the AUKUS Military Pact
15 October 2021Play
International Peace Movements’ Perspectives on the AUKUS Military Pact by IPB International Peace Bureau https://youtu.be/XRgYmPtDzyc