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  Letter to the Prime Minister - Concern over decision to restart seven under-construction hydroelectric projects on the Ganga in the Himalayan basin

  5 November 2021

  To
  The Prime Minister,
  On 10/8/21 over 60 citizens of our nation wrote to you expressing utmost concern over the recent decision of the Government of India to restart seven under-construction hydroelectric projects (HEPs) on the Ganga, in the Himalayan basin. The signatories representing a wide spectrum of our public, are prominent scientists, politicians, lawyers, social activists, field experts, villagers and members of reputed environmental organizations, all with a long experience (…)

• Promoting Peace Processes In South Asia: The Challenges | KS Subramanian

  5 November 2021

  by KS Subramanian
  Conflict resolution and peace-building in South Asia requires attention to key political problems such as for example, India’s endemic conflict with Pakistan. Once part of the same country, the two are now divided by the Line Of control (LOC). Similarly, Pakistan is divided from Afghanistan by the Durand Line. These Lines have generated conflicts in the region. There is no love lost between India and Pakistan but the Afghans have friendly relations with Indians!
  We (…)

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  Sachchidanand Sinha’s Writing: An Alternative Vision of Socialism | Prem Singh

  5 November 2021, by Prem Singh

  Book Review
  by Prem Singh
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  Sachchidanand Sinha Rachnavali
  (Collected Works of Sachchidanand Sinha)
  Editor Arvind Mohan
  Volumes: 8
  Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi
  Price: Paperback edition: Rs 4000
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  The aim of consumerism, which the rulers of these [socialist] economies had promoted, when they aspired to surpass the United States in the standard of life, conceived in terms of capitalist West, forced them to abandon their socialist objective. The consumerist standards of (…)

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  Oppenheim on Lee, Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea

  5 November 2021

  BOOK REVIEW
  by Robert Oppenheim (University of Texas at Austin)
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  Pop Empires:
  Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea
  by S. Heijin Lee, Monika Mehta, Robert Ji-Song Ku, eds.
  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press
  2019. 360 pp.
  ISBN 978-0-8248-8000-2. __0__
  The popularity and transnational reach of Indian popular media, most centrally Bollywood and regional Indian cinemas, have been subject to a great deal of academic attention. Somewhat more recently, (…)

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  Photo: Frida Kahlo in Mexico with Nayantara Sahgal and Rita Dar in 1947

  5 November 2021

• Architecture Without Architects | Bernard Rudofsky

  5 November 2021

  by Bernard Rudofsky *
  [rouge](Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture is a book based on the New York City MoMA exhibition of the same name by Bernard Rudofsky originally published in 1964.)rouge]
  […]
  There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert’s art. The untutored builders in space and time – the protagonists of this show – demonstrate an admirable talent for fitting their buildings into the natural surroundings. (…)

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  Video: A Testimony On Nodeep Kaur | Ayan Mrinal

  5 November 2021

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  A Testimony by ayan mrinal https://vimeo.com/511779068/3feda29ace

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  Video: Martina Navratilova vs Chris Evert | Wimbledon 1978 Final | Full Match

  5 November 2021

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  Martina Navratilova vs Chris Evert | Wimbledon 1978 Final | Full Match by Wimbledon https://youtu.be/ZAYLmavIUqY

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Oct 30, 2021

  29 October 2021

  * Pegasus Judgment: Milestone for Democratic Constitutionalism | Vijay Kumar
  * Footsteps of post-humanism | Pramod Ranjan
  * Compensating COVID Deaths: Undervalued Community Health Workers | Chemmalar
  * Cover-up of caste prejudices against Dalits | Vidya Bhushan Rawat
  * The Child and its enemies | Emma Goldman

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Oct 30, 2021

  29 October 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, October 30, 2021
  Nationalism, religion, and identity politics continue to divide people. Last week as the T20 cricket world cup tournament began, its managers imposed a well-meaning symbolic gesture on all participating teams ‘to take a knee’ in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the US that has challenged discrimination based on race. But within hours of such a gesture being televised at the start of the important Pakistan-India match, we (…)