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• Akhil Gogoi: A peasant leader jailed for supporting the poor and oppressed | Atul and Sandeep Pandey

  11 July

  Akhil Gogoi-a peasant leader and Right to Information activist from Assam has been in jail since December 2019. His crime is that he exercised his fundamental right of speech and expression by protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act.

• What’s Become of My Uttar Pradesh!

  11 July, by Humra Quraishi
  MUSINGS - July 7, 2020
  Guns and gun battles! Land mafia ruling and overruling the political mafia, together with the police force! The latest, of course, the gunning down of eight policemen by gangster, Vikas Dubey. Violence and anarchy is  (...)

• The NHRC’s report on Jamia Violence has relied on the Dominant Narrative of Delhi Police and ignored the Victim’s Point of Views | Badre Alam Khan

  11 July
  by Badre Alam Khan
   Recently the NHRC (National Human Right Commission) has released its report on ‘Jamia Violence’ which took place on 15th December 2019 at night. The Commission in its report has largely blamed the protesting students (who were  (...)

• Photo by Hengameh Golestan from Post-Revolution Iran: Iran: Women’s mass protest in Tehran, 1979 against the new Islamic government’s compulsory hijab ruling

  9 July

  8th of March 1979 women’s mass protest in Tehran to oppose a religious ruling

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  Table of Contents Mainstream - Lockdown Edition no.15 | July 4, 2020

  4 July
  Contents: Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 29, New Delhi, July 4, 2020
  Letter to the Readers – Mainstream Lockdown Edition No.15 ; The Editor
  Tribute to Jolly Mohan Kaul ; Sankar Ray
  Jolly Mohan Kaul (22 Sept 1921 - 29 June 2020) ; Aditi Roy Ghatak  (...)

• LETTER TO THE READERS - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.15

  4 July
  Letter to the Readers – Mainstream, July 4, 2020
  Consolidating National Solidarity: PM Narendra Modi’s speech at the frontier post at Nimo in Ladakh yesterday has been interpreted in various ways today. Several press analyses have pointed out that  (...)
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  Tribute to Jolly Mohan Kaul | Sankar Ray

  4 July, by Sankar Ray

  Jollyda joined the Communist Party of India (CPI) in 1941 and started working among railway workers. His parents thought of him as a member of Indian Civil Service after he passed B A with first-class honours in English, but his life changed after he befriended Prasanta Sanyal, a bright leader of All India Student Federation, a frontal organisation of undivided CPI. He was elected a member of Calcutta district committee in 1943.

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  Jolly Mohan Kaul (22 Sept 1921 - 29 June 2020) | Aditi Roy Ghatak

  4 July

  Jolly Mohan Kaul would have stepped into his 100th year on September 22. That he fell a trifle short of his century does not detract from the scintil­lating innings that he has played, nor the stout defence" "against death that he put up at Bellevue, where he breathed his last at 5.55 pm.

• Early India, Goats and Brahmins | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

  4 July
  by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
  I met Tony Joseph, the author of Early Indians - the History of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From, first in Jaipur Literature Festival in 2019 and next at Mathrubhoomi Literature Festival in January, 2020 at  (...)

• Russian bounty killing forces Trump’s hands on troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

  4 July, by M K Bhadrakumar

  As expected, the controversy over Russia’s alleged bounties for killing American and NATO troops in Afghanistan is steadily snowballing. The New York Times has come out with more leaks such as bank transfers from accounts identified with the Russian military intelligence to the Taliban, “hawala” transactions as well as the Afghan government’s assistance to the US intelligence to zero in on the Russian-Taliban nexus.

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