Mainstream WeeklyCrazy had been gifted to my daughter by the wife of an Army Officer in 2010 when she went to Ranikhet (Uttrakhand) to do some interior designing work at her cottage. She was a seven-day old female pup, a cross breed between a Boxer father and Cocker Spaniel mother. One could guess from her face that she was a Boxer and her hair made Crazy resemble a Cocker Spaniel. My daughter got her tail cut off for reasons best known to her.
Be that as it may, she loved Crazy more than her parents. To (…)
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Covid-19 Pandemic Drove the Indian Economy on the Brink | Dipak Prakash
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Indian economy’s greatest crisis: Impact of the Coronavirus and the road ahead by Arun Kumar Penguin Random House India Private Limited, 264 pages - Dec 31, 2020
The author Prof. Arun Kumar (well known for his magnum opus Black Economy in India) has attempted to explain how the widow’s cruse is likely to go empty. He succinctly explained why the insane and ill-conceived policy of the government be held responsible, and more so the Modinomics. Voodoo (…) -
A RAW officer’s ordeal in Pakistan & Beyond | M.R. Narayan Swamy
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Terror in Islamabad by Amar Bhushan HarperCollins Publishers India; Pages: 171; Price: Rs 250
This is a work of fiction only in name. This is an outstanding even if bone-chilling tribute to an Indian intelligence officer who for three long years fooled Pakistan’s ISI as he ran a network spread all over that country. Unable to digest their failure, ISI bullies abducted and brutally tortured him just before he was to return to India for good. Miraculously, the man (…) -
Social media should be free of commercial income | Mizanur Rahman
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No matter how controversial the political climate in the United States may be, people have never seen a few tech executives shut down a president’s social media access. The decision must be formally approved by the Vice President and Congress prior to taking action. Someone might argue that these media groups are privately owned and can do whatever they want according to the rules of their platform. In my opinion, they cannot, because every company has social (…) -
Funeral Rites | Sophie Pinkham
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At first you might miss Stalin in the sea of white flowers and crimson satin; then you spot his waxy dead man’s face, the black moustache that Mandelstam famously, fatally compared to a cockroach. The cadaver turns the heads of a torrent of mourners. Some are in tears, some look anxious or horrified, some wear an expression of awkward indifference, some might be suppressing a smile. There is never any question about what they’re looking at, even when the body is out of (…) -
Video: Are The New Digital Regulations Unconstitutional? Lawyer Menaka Guruswamy explains to Faye D’Souza | Feb 26
27 February 2021India: Minister for Communications and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad unveiled new policies for the regulation of social media and over-the-top (OTT) platforms. A Faye D’Souza investigates the topic with Menaka Guruswamy (Feb 26, 2021)
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Video: Dario Fo’s Accidental Death Of An Anarchist (1983) | Gavin Richards
27 February 2021Accidental Death of an Anarchist is a 1970 play by Italian playwright Dario Fo. It was written in response to the death of Giuseppi (Pino) Pinelli, an anarchist who died while in police custody for questioning about a bombing in which he played no part. The famous 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing took place in Milan, Italy, in December 1969, at the end of a tumultuous decade. The two main political parties in Italy at the time were the Christian Democrats and the Italian Communists, with (…)
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Table of Contents, Mainstream, Feb 20, 2021
20 February 2021* BJP Seems Nowhere Near Conquering West Bengal| Barun Das Gupta
* Tribute: Shaibal Gupta - A Life Devoted to the Service of Bihar | Muchkund Dubey
* Romance and reality of farming over the years | B S Chauhan