Mainstream WeeklyTurning Shop - 1st Bay, Jamalpur Railway Workshops, India - Unknown Photographer - Date: 1897 ( The workshop was built in 1862)
Interior view, looking along rows of turning machines (reproduced here under a creative commons license from the British library
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1897 Photo of Turning Shop - 1st Bay, Jamalpur Railway Workshop
27 August 2021 -
Comrade - 1978 poem by Prabhakar Gangurde Astitva - translated by Gail Omvedt and Bharat Patankar
27 August 2021by Prabhakar Gangurde Astitva, Aurangabad, 1978
Don’t expect revolution from those living corpses, comrade. First you become their beacon. The revolution that will flash like lightning and not be extinguished in any storm is still far far away. Don’t be in a hurry for revolution. You are still very small; your ability to resist the atrocities, boycotts and rapes that go on every moment has become nil, comrade. Tomorrow’s sun is yet to rise; sleep undisturbed until then. Take the fantasy (…) -
Taliban Hinders Trade With India - Cartoon | Soumithran
27 August 2021 -
Women of Afghanistan | Badri Raina
27 August 2021, by Badri RainaAugust 24, 2021
Listening to you,
How my male genius is rebuked
By your brilliance,
Women of Afghanistan;
And how ignorant and frightened
Those that call themselves Taliban.
Can it be God’s will that
Such imbeciles have rule
Over your lives?
Have they no regard for the
Excellence of the Prophet’s wives?
Finding no other route to dominance,
They use Islam of their distortion;
What life have they without
Women who bore them for son?
How hollow then is their boast
Of being (…) -
An Afghan Woman Speaks | Sagari Chhabra
27 August 2021, by Sagari ChhabraLong years ago, the British ruled, They declared: ‘the sun never sets on our Empire’, But when they left, they set off such a fire, Over a million people perished in that ire. The Partition was South Asia’s Holocaust, Yet no one asked, While our children lay asleep, That history is to do a repeat, For the blood of natives runs so cheap. You have abandoned us again; After holding the controls for over a decade, You flee in choppers across the glade; The airport is overrun By people desperate (…)
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Music: ’Memu Choostamu’ - Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s ’Hum Dekhenge’ sung in Telugu
27 August 2021Play
Memu Choostamu by Unmasked Productions https://youtu.be/IK41IXSzTfY
Lyrics: Madhoo
Special thanks to Khadar Mohiuddeen, Surendra Raju Ambati, Vemana Vasantha Lakshmi and Zulfiqar Ahmad for their inputs.
Music Arrangement and Production: Nirvan
Lead Vocalists: Sagari R Ramdas, Charanya
Background Vocalist: Karina Del Mar
Recording Engineer: Khordad Edulji
Recorded at: Le Bijou Studio, Hyderabad
Editors: Aman Bhatia and Kashif Ali
Director: Charanya (…) -
Music: L. Subramaniam, Jean Luc Ponty, Billy Cobham
27 August 2021Play
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A Documentary Film on How the Muslim-Christian divide killed Lebanon’s golden age of basketball
27 August 2021Play
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Indian Muslims must reject the ‘Islamic Emirate’ in Afghanistan: IMSD
27 August 2021Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD)
August 23, 2021
Press release:
Indian Muslims must reject the ‘Islamic Emirate’ in Afghanistan: IMSD
Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) rejects the very idea of a theocratic state anywhere in the world. It therefore questions the legitimacy of the “Islamic Emirate” the Taliban seek to impose on the war-torn, war-weary people of Afghanistan who are yearning for peace.
We are deeply disturbed by the euphoria evident among a section (…) -
Support Women In Afghanistan And Oppose Imperialism - Statement by AIDWA Aug 20, 2021
27 August 2021All India Democratic Women’s Association 2253-E, Shadi Khampur, New Ranjit Nagar, New Delhi – 110008 Phone: 011-25700476, 25709565 Email: aidwacec[at]gmail.com Website: aidwaonline.org
Date: 20 August, 2021
Support Women In Afghanistan And Oppose Imperialism
The AIDWA sees the recent developments in Afghanistan as a major betrayal of its people by the coalition led by US Imperialism active in the geo-politics of the region for several decades. Developments in the aftermath of (…)