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  Review of Rossen Djagalov’s, From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds | Joshua First

  20 February 2021

  Rossen Djagalov. From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds. Montreal: McGill-Queen University Press, 2020. 320 pp. $35.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-00109-6; $35.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-00110-2.
  Reviewed by Joshua First (The University of Mississippi) Published on H-Diplo (January, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
  Rossen Djagalov begins his book, From (…)

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  Video: Don Quixote/Giselle - Solos by Ballet Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov

  20 February 2021
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  Audio: George Paizis on Victor Serge’s Memoirs of a Revolutionary

  20 February 2021

  (Socialist History seminar - Institute of Historical Research, UCL)

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Feb 13, 2021

  12 February 2021

  * Dismantling Public Sector and Subverting Welfare State | D Raja
  * Union Budget 2021-22: Long on Promises, Short in Content | A Sunil Dharan
  * The World May Be Sorry For India | TJS George

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 13, 2021

  12 February 2021

  The big news on the China India Ladakh Border is of possible military disengagement by the two armies after months of a heavy standoff with the deployment of tens of thousands of troops and heavy armour. News is still trickling in and any sober assessment of the causes, the backstory and the implications will take time.
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  Another man-made disaster struck the Chamoli district in Uttarakhand Hills on February 7, 2021, this time wiping out the trace of two hydroelectric dams being built (…)

• Dismantling Public Sector and Subverting Welfare State | D Raja

  12 February 2021

  by D Raja
  Politics and economics can never be separated. It is political economy which decides and reveals the nature and character of the state of any Nation. The Constitution of our country defines Indian state as a secular state and as a welfare state. The BJP-RSS combine has been aggressively making efforts to subvert the secular state into a theocratic fascist state. The present regime headed by Modi has been subverting the welfare state by dismantling public sector after the (…)

• Union Budget 2021-22: Long on Promises, Short in Content | A Sunil Dharan

  12 February 2021

  by A Sunil Dharan
  The Finance Minister’s budget speech gave us the impression that she has pulled off the impossible. She has, apparently, presented an expansionary budget with thrust on capital spending and increased expenditure on priority areas like health. At the same time, by projecting a fiscal deficit figure for 2021-22 which is much lower than the revised estimate for 2020-21 she has put the economy on the path of fiscal consolidation. The speech is replete with hyperboles (…)

• The World May Be Sorry For India | TJS George

  12 February 2021, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  More than any other Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi longed for international approbation. He wanted the world to chant Howdy Modi not as part of an organised publicity stunt, but spontaneously with love and reverence. Power in India was important, but just as important was admiration by the world. It was important that the world understood how a tide of popularity carried him to the top and how continuing applause by an ecstatic people is keeping him there. The (…)

• Gandhi and Farmers | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  12 February 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy

  For the Mahatma, Farmers Were Saints “If I had my way, our Governor-General would be a peasant, our Prime Minister would be a peasant,” Mahatma Gandhi said at his prayer meeting in New Delhi on January 29, 1948, a day before he was shot dead by a fanatic. Addressing a crowd, he went on: “In my childhood I learnt a poem which says ‘O farmer, you are king, the master of the whole world’.”
  Gandhi had been asked a question about the state of (…)

• Modi’s manoeuvres in Rajya Sabha fail to assuage the feelings of the farmers | Arun Srivastava

  12 February 2021

  by Arun Srivastava
  With the farmers’ movement which so far has been focussed on repealing of the three black laws, acquiring the new dynamics of protest for the restoration of the democracy and protection of the human rights, a nervous prime minister Narendra Modi has personally launched a vitriolic campaign against the campaign and tried to blame the agitators of nursing ill will against him.
  So far Modi has been behaving like a person unconcerned of the movement and the plight of the (…)