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• Crossing into New Year | AK Das

  2 January 2021

  The end of the Year: pausing moment
  of the parting sun.
  Skyline changes into deep russet;
  the evening brings down
  a shadowy curtain;
  falling dusk obliterates
  the page of the day.
  Once again the train of time
  slowing down
  halts at the last destination
  of the Old Year.
  Another engine waits in the yard
  to take it to an unknown station.
  Corona, the spoilsport, at the border;
  yet no damper on the spirits, rejoicing;
  rolling pistons moving faster;
  smooth crossing into the New (…)

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  Peace - a Lithograph by Chittaprosad

  2 January 2021

  Chittaprosad Bhattacharya (1915-1978) was a painter, lithographer and a politically aware artist who stood on the side of the left political movements in India. He worked with watercolour and printmaking.

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  The United Nations at 75: Looking Back to Look Forward, Episode 3, with Noeleen Heyzer

  2 January 2021

  The United Nations at 75: Looking Back to Look Forward," host Margaret P. Karns and Noeleen Heyzer, former executive director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, discuss the role of women in the UN over the years. Heyzer speaks about the Beijing Women’s Conference; Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security; and the prospects for increasing gender equality in the UN system in the decades to come.

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  Video: Feminism for all | Kamla Bhasin (2017)

  2 January 2021
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  Video: Waltz Of The Eyes by Stavros Lantsias

  2 January 2021

  Stavros Lantsias: Piano
  Yiannis Papagiannis: Oboe
  Nikos Sidirokastritis: Tympans
  Vangelis Zografos: Contrabass
  Alfredo Shtuni: Violin
  Monica Dhamo: Violin
  Altin Thanasi: Viola
  Granit Camperi: Violoncello
  Haig Yazdjian: Oud, Voice
  painter and also photographer " Tadas Šlajus"

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Dec 26, 2020

  26 December 2020

  * Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 26, 2020
  * Feud in Ruling Communist Party Lands Nepal in a Crisis| Barun Das Gupta
  * Vajpayee The Mask December 24, 2020 Also Born On Christmas | John Dayal

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  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 26, 2020

  26 December 2020

  Letter to the Readers – Mainstream, Dec 26, 2020
  The Jammu and Kashmir State Assembly had been dissolved in November 2018 and then the Central Government abrogated Article 370 thereby taking away the Special Status of the State on August 5, 2019 and detained political leaders of all parties except for the BJP for a long spell of a year and more leading to a paralysis of political activity. People of the former State have voted in the recently held local body District Development Council (…)

• Factional Feud in Ruling Communist Party Lands Nepal in a Political Crisis | Barun Das Gupta

  26 December 2020, by Barun Das Gupta

  The unending feud in the two factions of the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) has landed the country in a first class political crisis. Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli, who lost majority in the House of Representatives or the lower House of Parliament did not resign, as is the practice in a parliamentary democracy, but prevailed upon an obliging President to dissolve Parliament instead. General election was due in 2022 but now it has been advanced to April 30 and May 10 net year.
  When (…)

• Vajpayee The Mask December 24, 2020 Also Born On Christmas Day | John Dayal

  26 December 2020, by John Dayal

  The Christian community is celebrating Christmas, perhaps more joyously this season so as to get over the trauma and the gloom of the Covid pandemic. Most churches, however, did not have the traditional midnight mass, and parishioners of many city churches were requested to call early so that they could be allotted seats in churches observing a very strict social distancing. Many attended a virtual Mass, for Catholic, or a prayer service live-streamed over the internet through dedicated (…)

• Janata Dal (S) In Karnataka: Facing An Existential Crisis? | P. S. Jayaramu

  26 December 2020, by P S Jayaramu

  by P. S. Jayaramu
  In Karnataka Politics, Janata Dal (S), popularly known as JD(S), is very much in news. It’s State President Kumaraswamy has supported the BJP led Yediyurappa Government on a few issues where it badly needed his support. Firstly, the amendment to the Karnataka Land Reforms Act (1961which give the right to any one to buy farm land which was previously restricted only to those with agricultural backboard. He defended his decision stating that by ending 79(a,b) of the Land (…)