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• Impact of Lockdown Measures taken During Covid 19 Pandemic on the Livelihood of Ragpickers: A Case Study in Surat | Vimal Trivedi

  3 September 2021

  by Vimal Trivedi*
  Abstract
  In this research paper, I tried to explore the impact of lockdown measures imposed during the Covid pandemic on the less privileged rag pickers’ community in Surat city. The survey indicates that lockdown measures raised many questions particularly on the response system to ensure ration for the rag pickers. The survey conducted between November 2020 and January 2021 revealed that rag pickers were not in a position to access any relief measures during the (…)

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  A Gripping Autopsy of Japan | M R Narayan Swamy

  3 September 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
  __0__ ’Orienting: An Indian in Japan’ by Pallavi Aiyar
  HarperCollins India https://harpercollins.co.in/product/orienting/ 2021 Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages ₹ 499.00 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9354227643 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9354227646
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  Life in Japan can be stranger than fiction.
  Indian journalist and author Pallavi Aiyar realized this during a four-year stay in Japan as she probed the inscrutable Japanese and their way of life, discovering in the process why people in the (…)

• 20 years After 9/11, Many Questions Remain Unanswered | Bharat Dogra

  3 September 2021, by Bharat Dogra

  The 9/11 terrorist attack in the USA was the most horrible and destructive terrorist attack and was mounted against the most powerful and resourceful country with the most extensive intelligence system and highest media concentration. Hence it is highly surprising that it has been investigated in detail time and again, officially as well in numerous independent efforts. Despite this, as we come close to the 20th anniversary of this tragedy, many unanswered or inadequately answered questions (…)

• The Unemployed Epidemiologist Who Predicted the Pandemic | Eamon Whalen

  3 September 2021

  by Eamon Whalen
  August 21, 2021
  For years, Rob Wallace warned that industrial agriculture could cause deadly outbreaks at a global scale. It made him an exile in his field.
  In early March 2020, Rob Wallace, an evolutionary biologist who had been adrift after an unceremonious exit from the University of Minnesota, flew to New Orleans and then got on a bus to Jackson, Miss., where he was scheduled to speak at an event on health and racial injustice. Wallace, who turned 50 this summer, (…)

• Afghanistan, the great game of smashing countries | John Pilger

  3 September 2021

  by John Pilger
  As a tsunami of crocodile tears engulfs Western politicians, history is suppressed. More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the United States, Britain and their “allies” destroyed.
  In 1978, a liberation movement led by the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) overthrew the dictatorship of Mohammad Dawd, the cousin of King Zahir Shar. It was an immensely popular revolution that took the British and Americans by surprise.
  Foreign (…)

• ME - a poem on casteism & prejudice | Jeevesh Gupta

  3 September 2021

  ME
  Those eyes were not nude but were surely stripping me, Wanting to decipher the black in me,
  Those raised eyebrows were stampeding on my mind trampling me, Wanting to figure out the God in me,
  I could hear those poisoned whispers which were raised to a higher decibel, To reach my ears and axe me.
  I could read that disdain caricatured on that forehead , Wanting to pierce that needle inside me.
  I wondered what would trickle out of me, Will it not be blood or was it tar which (…)

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  Cartoon: They cannot erase Nehru’s legacy | V R Ragesh

  3 September 2021
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  Photo: Aruna Asaf Ali with Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to have flown in space

  3 September 2021

  Abheek Barman’s tribute to Aruna Asaf Ali

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  Music: Maria Farantouri sings ’To Yelasto Pedi’ (The laughing boy) at the 1974 concert by Mikis Theodorakis after the fall of the military junta in Greece

  3 September 2021

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  Theodorakis Farantouri To Yelasto Pedi 1974 by Pieter Hendriks https://youtu.be/NLgerQJo7zM
  "On 21 April 1967 a right-wing junta, the Regime of the Colonels, took power in a putsch in Greece. The celebrated music composer Mikis Theodorakis went underground and founded the Patriotic Front (PAM).
  On 1 June, the Colonels published Army decree No 13, which banned playing, and even listening to his music.
  Theodorakis himself was arrested on 21 August, and jailed for (…)

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  Video: Leasing Out Assets Worst Option, Kaushik Basu Tells NDTV | The Big Fight - Aug 28, 2021

  3 September 2021

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  Leasing Out Assets Worst Option, Kaushik Basu Tells NDTV | The Big Fight by NDTV https://youtu.be/hhvXsDrf0b8