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• The Augmentation Of White Supremacist Terrorism | Tejasvini Akhawat

  7 August 2020

  by Tejasvini Akhawat
  Any kind of occurrence that is violent in nature can invariably be classified as a manifestation of terrorism. The minimalism and lack of austerity associated with the white supremacist terrorism cannot be justified on the grounds and sentiments of anti-Semitic, xenophobia, ultra-nationalism, islamophobia, all of which, to hail history, have in one form or the other served as root causes for formation of major terrorist camps and organisations. If this was the case, (…)

• Deeno Daan a poem Rabindranath Tagore

  7 August 2020

  120 years ago, on this very day, Rabindranath Tagore wrote a poem "Deeno Daan". It was about a temple. Here is an English translation by Sandipto Dasgupta of some of the excerpts.

• Routine! | A.K. Das

  7 August 2020

  Are you missing the routine: a drab, listless word, lidless stare of monotony? Getting ready, rushing to workplace, doing the day’s job, then the sun lengthening its shadows, you return home, tired, its comforting settings, warmth of your dear ones removing fatigue. Now a new reality has set in. You work from home without any fixed seat or cabin. There is no boundary between office and home; it’s blurred into a single space. You gradually get settled to a different work ambience: (…)

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  Video: Ram Kay Naam [In the Name of Rama] - a 1991 documentary film by Anand Patwardhan

  7 August 2020
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  Video: Actor Martin Sheen on Dangers of Climate Change and of Nuclear War

  7 August 2020

  Martin Sheen has recorded a video for World BEYOND War outlining the two biggest dangers the world faces. [Jan 12, 2020]

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  Table of Contents Mainstream - Lockdown Edition no.19 | Aug 1, 2020

  31 July 2020

  Table of Contents - Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 33, New Delhi, August 1, 2020 Letter to the Readers of Mainstream’s Lockdown Edition 19, Aug 1 | The Editor FSDR — The Ghost of FRDI: Rescuing failed banks at whose cost? | S G Vombatkere Lenin 150: Revisiting Lenin’s Understanding of Democracy in post-revolutionary Russia | Sobhanlal Datta Gupta Hagia Sophia: Heritage of Entire Humanity | Irfan Engineer Pandemic 2020: Toxic Leaders, Selfish Nations And An Orphaned World! | RK MIshra Book Review: (…)

• Letter to the Readers of Mainstream’s Lockdown Edition 19 - August 1

  31 July 2020

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 33, New Delhi, August 1, 2020:
  Corona crisis: India is confronting its worst health crisis since independence. The Covid-19 tally is rising sharply and inching towards the 15-lakh mark. For the past weeks now, the country has seen a huge rise in the growth of infections and is just ranked below Brazil and the US. The situation is getting serious by the day and the government keeps denying any trace of community transmission. Foreign experts (…)

• FSDR — The Ghost of FRDI: Rescuing failed banks at whose cost? | S G Vombatkere

  31 July 2020, by S G Vombatkere

  In 2019, media reported that Government was preparing to table a new legislation, the Financial Sector Development & Regulation (Resolution) Bill (FSDR, hereafter). .
  Reportedly FSDR is meant to rescue banks, among other financial sector institutions, from collapse. It replaces the Financial Regulation and Deposit Insurance Bill, 2017 (FRDI hereafter), which was withdrawn in 2018 following public outcry against a “bail-in” provision, which small depositors did not trust. (…)

• Lenin 150: Revisiting Lenin’s Understanding of Democracy in post-revolutionary Russia | Sobhanlal Datta Gupta

  31 July 2020, by Sobhanlal Datta Gupta

  The literature on Lenin spanning the Cold War as well as the post-Cold War era has been broadly characterized by two rather opposite viewpoints: deification or demonization of this iconic figure of the twentieth century.

• Hagia Sophia: Heritage of Entire Humanity | Irfan Engineer

  31 July 2020

  by Irfan Engineer
  The re-conversion of Hagia Sophia from a patriarchal cathedral built by Justinian I in 537 CE to Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in 1453 after the conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmet II and into a museum of the same name by Kemal Ataturk in 1934 and again into a mosque of the same name on 24th July 2020 has thrown up quite a controversy. The reconversion of the Christian-Muslim monument in 21st Century that was a museum for nearly a century signifies the global rise and (…)