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• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 23, 2021

  23 October
  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, October 23, 2021
  Sections of influential media in India do a disservice to society by not highlighting public issues in a transparent manner and not challenging the public postures of the Government or of  (...)

• India’s Covid Death Toll: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics | K N Ninan

  23 October
  by K N Ninan
  Mark Twain, an American writer is credited with popularising a statement rightly or wrongly attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister during 1874 to 1880 which stated that: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned  (...)

• Global Financial Architecture Underlies the Illegality of the Rich Who are the New Colonizers | Arun Kumar

  23 October, by Arun Kumar
  The Pandora Papers, published on October 3, once again expose the illegal activities of the rich and the mighty across the world. The investigation into these papers by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), is the  (...)

• Not all can see democracy’s power | T J S George

  23 October, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS
  Uttar Pradesh is considered India’s lead state. Its size, and Delhi being virtually a geographic part of it could be the main reason. UP does have a hold on Delhi’s affairs in ways no other state has. Some of our great national  (...)

• Online Dating Apps: Changes and Continuities in Gender Relations | Piyali Sur

  23 October, by Piyali Sur
  Abstract
  This article looks at how online dating apps provide opportunities to women to ‘take charge’ sexually but within a wider context of persistent coercion and inequality.
  
  Introduction
  Dating applications, primarily navigated by  (...)

• Violence, Militancy and Terrorism: A way forward | S.G.Vombatkere

  23 October, by S G Vombatkere
  Terror, terrorism, terrorists
  Terror is the emotion of “extreme fear” caused by the threat or use of violence. Terror is also an instrument to cause fear, “a weapon of the impotent, the disenfranchised and the unorganized in the face of profound  (...)

• Chronology Samjhiye Rajnath Singhji: Do not Outrageously Falsify History by Linking Gandhi with Savarkar’s Mercy Petitions | S N Sahu

  23 October
  by S N Sahu *
  V D Savarkar who desperately submitted multiple clemency petitions to the British authorities from 1911 onwards for his release from Cellular jail of Andamans was also charged with conspiracy to murder of Mahatma Gandhi and the  (...)

• J P and his many experiments with democracy | Murari Sharan Verma

  23 October
  by Murari Sharan Verma *
  Jaiprakash Narayan was one of the leading lights of India’s freedom movement and an iconic figure in post-independence India. He inspired millions but his ideas also evoked cynicism in several quarters. Ironically, J P  (...)

• JP as a failed politician | Radhakanta Barik

  23 October
  by Prof Radhakanta Barik
  JP Narayan (JP) after leaving his party politics he decided to enjoy his freedom. He felt restricted in his freedom to think and act as free intellectual as a member of the party. He defined it as “freedom of the mind,  (...)
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  Caste, Class Combined to Make Bombay | M R Narayan Swamy

  23 October, by M R Narayan Swamy
  by M.R. Narayan Swamy
  
  Outcaste Bombay:
  City Making and the Politics of the Poor
  by Juned Shaikh
  Orient BlackSwan
  Pages: 226; Price Rs 995
  ISBN 9789354420405
  
  When Bombay expanded in the 19th century from a trading town into a  (...)

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