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  ’Changing Nature of Global Capital, Pandemic and Road Ahead’, Lecture to All India Bank Employees Association | Prof. Arun Kumar

  16 July 2021, by Arun Kumar

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  Film: Jana Aranya (The Middleman) 1976 | Satyajit Ray

  16 July 2021

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  Heavy-handedness by the state authorities in Uttar Pradesh with respect to media - EGI Statement

  16 July 2021

  The Editors Guild of India
  PRESS STATEMENT
  July 12th, 2021
  Editors Guild of India is deeply disturbed by the continuing trend of heavy-handedness by the state authorities in Uttar Pradesh with respect to journalists and media. The latest incident is that of an assault on a journalist by the Chief Development Officer (CDO), in the district of Unnao, UP, on July 10, 2021, when the former was covering polling for Block Pramukh elections. In a video that has gone viral on social media, (…)

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  Misinformation and Bias in the Name of NCERT Reforms - Statement by Indian History Congress | July 14, 2021

  16 July 2021

  The Indian History Congress
  Recently, the Rajya Sabha Secretariat came out with a notice stating that the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports (EWCY&S) has “taken up for examination and consideration the subject ‘Reforms in the Content and Design of School Text Books’ with focus on removing references to un-historical facts and distortions about national heroes; ensuring equal or proportionate references to all periods of Indian history and (…)

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  US Hands off From Cuba - Press Statement by All India Forward Bloc | July 14, 2021

  16 July 2021

  All India Forward Bloc - Central Committeee Netaji Bhawan T 2235/2, Ashok Nagar, Faiz Road, Karol Bagh New Delhi - 110005 www.forwardbloc.org
  PRESS RELEASE
  14th July 2021, New Delhi
  US, HANDS OFF FROM CUBA
  Over the past six decades the Cuba has been hit by the economic sanctions imposed by the US administration. The US attempts of putting “Maximum Pressure” on Cuban government and instigate the people for counter revolution are being thwart by the revolutionary people of Cuba again (…)

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 10, 2021

  9 July 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 10, 2021
  The week gone by saw a sudden news that a court in France had accepted a law suit filed by an NGO regarding possible corruption in the Rafale warplane sale deal between a French firm and the Indian government. This is good news for India’s opposition parties that have long demanded a parliamentary probe into this affair, it confirms some of their doubts. Given the current balance of forces in India’s Parliament it seems difficult to imagine (…)

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  Table of Contents, July 10, 2021

  9 July 2021

  * Union Cabinet Reshuffle and Its Impact on Bengal BJP | Barun Das Gupta
  * How to take on the BJP in 2024 | Sanjay Jha
  * Stan, now part of the Adivasi folklore of resistance->http:/et | John Dayal

• That Tear-Drop Of Love Matters | TJS George

  9 July 2021, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  July 4, 2021
  From Shah Jahan to Narendra Modi is a long way. But we need to take note of it because it is a journey dictated by history and, like all such journeys, it opens a window to the making of the country. It brings out the contradictions that made India now a triumph of mankind, now a misadventure. In many ways, it is something of a wonder that Shah Jahan’s India and Narendra Modi’s India are one and the same. But are they?
  Shah Jahan was no doubt a (…)

• Union Cabinet Reshuffle and Its Impact on Bengal BJP | Barun Das Gupta

  9 July 2021, by Barun Das Gupta

  The Union Cabinet was reshuffled on Wednesday. Four new Ministers of State were inducted from West Bengal and two sitting MoS were sacked. But this time also, West Bengal did not a get a cabinet rank minister in Modi’s team, though the State had sent a dozen and a half members to Lok Sabha in 2019. The new ministers from West Bengal have obviously been chosen with an eye on 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
  The inclusion of John Barla from North Bengal has raised many eyebrows even in the State BJP (…)

• To take on BJP in 2024, opposition needs a leader who’s proudly secular, leads without fear and enjoys a big fight | Sanjay Jha

  9 July 2021

  by Sanjay Jha *
  July 5, 2021
  Is ideology going to be the final arbiter of India’s destiny in 2024? Is a country of nearly 140 crore people today hypnotised by one individual largely because they know what he stands for? That it has nothing to do with moral grandstanding, rhetorical promises, oratorical flourish, campaigning style etc?
  Who cares for a V-shaped economy and transparent governance? All they want is a leader who walks the talk. They may not agree with him, they may even (…)