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• Need for Democratization of the UN System | Rup Narayan Das

  17 October
  by Rup Narayan Das * Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his virtual address to the United Nations last week on the occasion of its 75th anniversary reiterated the demand for the reform of the UN system – in its responses, in the processes and its  (...)

• Fake promises, Hiked Train Fares, Memories of Begum Akhtar, Pran Nevile | Humra Quraishi

  17 October, by Humra Quraishi
  MUSINGS – October 14, 2020
  What’s been happening! Fake speeches. Fake political promises. Fake TRP ratings!
  How can one survive in this polluted atmosphere? Never before this range of deceit around! And in the midst of this hellish scenario, the  (...)

• Capacity Development For RWAS For COVID 19 | Ashok Kumar Sahay, Namrata Handique

  17 October
  by Dr Ashok Kumar Sahay and Namrata Handique *
  City planning is a highly complex process that tries to capture the necessities of life in all its variety. This is beyond the comprehension of a single individual or agency and calls for the widest  (...)

• In Michigan, homegrown terrorists offer a taste of civil war in America | Roberto Zanini

  17 October
  written by Roberto Zanini
  “Snatch and grab, man. Grab the fuckin’ Governor. Just grab the bitch. Because at that point, we do that, dude — it’s over.”
  These were the words of Adam Fox, a white militiaman at the head of a group with a ridiculous name,  (...)

• China trying to re-write own past - insists Genghis Khan exhibit not use words ’Genghis Khan’

  17 October
  China insists Genghis Khan exhibit not use words ’Genghis Khan’
  Museum in Nantes pulls show after intervention by Beijing, which comes as Communist party hardens discrimination against ethnic Mongols
  Agence France-Presse
  Wed 14 Oct 2020
  A French  (...)

• Audio: Contested histories - a discussion on Sudhir Hazareesingh’s biography of Toussaint Louverture - Black Spartacus | BBC4

  17 October

  Olivette Otele, Sudhir Hazareesingh and Kate Williams reveal untold histories with Tom Sutcliffe

• Video: Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps (1942)

  17 October

• Letter to the Readers - Mainstream, October 10, 2020 | Lockdown Edition no. 29

  10 October
  We live in a very violent, callous and brutalised society. We didn’t become a violent country only after the arrival of the Right-wing conservative government of the BJP led by Narendra Modi in 2014. There is a long pre-history of everyday  (...)

• How safe are Dalit women in Uttar Pradesh? | SR Darapuri

  10 October
  by S. R. Darapuri
  Recently Crime in India - 2019 report has been released by National Crime Records Bureau. In this report, in the year 2019, the statistics of crime of Dalit atrocities have been published for the whole country. It has emerged  (...)

• Culture of Rape | Sukumaran C.V.

  10 October, by Sukumaran C.V.
  It almost seems as if rape is the favorite pastime of the males of this country.—Saraswati Haider.
  Three women including a well-known dubbing artist in the capital city of Kerala have physically attacked or manhandled (the correct usage is  (...)

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