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• Jallianwala Bagh: Erasing the Spirit of Sacrifice | Prem Singh

  17 September 2021, by Prem Singh

  The beautification/renovation of Jallianwala Bagh Memorial done by the central government through a Gujarat-based private company has come under criticism. It was inaugurated by the Prime Minister on 28th August. The details of observations made and objections raised by a range of people – scholars, common citizens, peoples’ representatives - from India and abroad have come in the press. Simultaneously the details of the changes made to the massacre site have also come in the public domain. (…)

• Poor and common People of the country look towards the CJI with the high hopes of their liberation from state repression | Arun Srivastava

  17 September 2021

  by Arun Srivastava
  The Indian judicial system is horizontally split in two hemisphere having divergent dimension and dynamics. While the lower judiciary has not succeeded in disconnecting itself from the colonial practices and mode of functioning, the higher judiciary is finding it tough to over throw the drag of the modern political institution and system and assert its own independent status and rights.
  It is bound to happen as in both the cases the presiding officers are unable to (…)

• Virendranath Chattopadhyaya - Indian Revolutionary Abroad: Unknown Warrior of Freedom Movement | B P Mathur

  17 September 2021, by B P Mathur

  The role of Indian revolutionaries, who operated from abroad to fight for country’s freedom, has not been adequately appreciated in the history of our freedom movement. Post-1857 war of Independence, the administration of the country passed from the hands of East India Company to the British Crown, who ruled with iron grip allowing no dissent. To escape the long hand of British rulers a band of patriotic Indians found it expedient to operate from abroad, to secure for their countrymen their (…)

• Urgent Need to Follow Up Tamil Nadu and Kerala Initiatives on Right to Sit for Workers | Bharat Dogra

  17 September 2021, by Bharat Dogra

  In recent years increasing medical evidence has poured in regarding the serious adverse health impacts of prolonged standing and these advese impacts have been noticed in many lines of work as a serious occupational risk. Women workers are even more vulnerable than men workers.
  In this context, The Tamil Nadu Government deserves praise for recently introducing an amendment in the Works and Establishment Act 1947 by adding section 22A which reads—“The premises of any establishment shall (…)

• Review Essay: Partha Chatterjee’s take on Nationalism & Popular Sovereignty | Adityaprava Mozumder

  17 September 2021

  Review Essay
  by Adityaprava Mozumder
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  ’The truths and lies of Nationalism:
  As narrated by Charvak
  by Partha Chatterjee
  Permanent Black
  in association with Ashoka University, New Delhi
  2021 __0__
  I am the people: Reflections on popular sovereignty today
  by Partha Chatterjee
  Columbia University Press, New York
  2020, 208 Pages
  ISBN: 9780231195492
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  Partha Chatterjee, one of the leading scholars who has contributed immensely to the study of political (…)

• What internal strife can do | Humra Quraishi

  17 September 2021, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS
  15 September 2021
  As my Abba Jaan rests in his grave in a qabaristan in Uttar Pradesh, I sit back and thank our Creator that my father is not here to witness the horrifying communal build-ups in my home state, Uttar Pradesh. What, with today’s ruling lot hell bent on ruining the lives of hundreds and thousands of our fellow citizens.
  Instead of paying heed to the dying children of Firozabad and the adjoining areas of the Western Uttar Pradesh belt, the rulers are busy (…)

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  Income Tax “surveys” at the offices of news websites NewsClick and Newslaundry | Statement by Editors Guild (Sept 11, 2021)

  17 September 2021

  The Editors Guild of India Address: 4/7- A, INS Building, Rafi Marg, New Delhi-110001
  PRESS STATEMENT
  September 11, 2021
  The Editors Guild of India is deeply disturbed about the Income Tax “surveys” at the offices of news websites NewsClick.in and Newslaundry.com
  On September 10, 2021, teams of IT officials visited the offices of the two organisations and conducted investigations through the day. While they were officially labelled as “surveys” by the IT officials, but as per the (…)

• Tasks Before the Left Today | D. Raja

  17 September 2021, by D Raja

  The Communist movement in India is almost a century old now and remains an important actor in the Indian political scene. From fighting the British imperialists to the inequalities of the Indian society, the Communist Left is one force which was at the forefront of these struggles and gave it a progressive ideological shape. After Independence too, through its leadership of the working class, peasant, youth, students and women’s movements it continued to be a major progressive force and (…)

• India and the Taliban regime In Afghanistan | P. S Jayaramu

  17 September 2021

  by P. S Jayaramu *
  (September 13, 2021)
  Events in Afghanistan culminating with the withdrawal of American troops in a hasty manner and the swiftness with which the Taliban took control of the capital city of Kabul with no resistance from the Afghan militia in the absence of backup support by American soldiers has led to widespread analysis about the pros and cons of the development. While I dealt with this theme in a previous article in these columns calling it an abdication of the Biden (…)

• Taliban face a Hobbesian choice | Apratim Mukarji

  17 September 2021, by Apratim Mukarji

  One month since they grabbed power in Kabul, the Taliban have been increasingly called to sort out growing contradictions both within the group and with Pakistan, their sole mentor and manipulator.
  A Taliban commander has blurted out against the ISI for trying to dominate the new government in Afghanistan, alleging that the ISI Director-General Lt. Gen. Faiz Hameed exerted his influence and command over the Taliban to such n extent that he was able in th end to prevent the (…)