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The State of Indian News Media in the Times of Covid 19
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Martin Khor, Third Worldist
9 May 2020by Jomo Kwame Sundaram
PENANG, Apr 3 2020 (IPS) - Martin Khor Kok Peng passed away just after the end of the first quarter of 2020. He leaves behind an unusually rich legacy. Atypically for people mainly working in the worldideas, he was also a (...) -
India’s total lockdown to counter Covid19 has provoked a crisis - Recommendations for an economic stimulus package by Rahul Gandhi
9 May 2020Statement of Shri Rahul Gandhi, MP
May 08, 2020
It’s now 45 days since India was first put under lockdown. Even as the battle against the Covid19 virus continues across the country the reality is that the total lockdown has unleashed on India an (...) -
Any Takers for Water Wisdom ?
9 May 2020Book Review
by Zulafqar Ahmed
This book “Towards Water Wisdom Limits, Justice, Harmony" has been written by Ramaswamy R. Iyer is really a path-breaking exercise. There are several books in his account which has been written on water issues. He (...) -
QUARANTINE
9 May 2020Lockdown: time seats heavily within confines of the walls; even the corners seem to be sealed. After the daily chores attended to, mind wants to fly off through windows of laptops, smartphones, sending messages, narrowing the mental distance (...) -
Table of Contents - Mainstream COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.6 | May 2, 2020
3 May 2020Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 20, New Delhi, May 2, 2020
Contents:
LETTER TO THE READERS - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.6
The History of May Day ; Eric Hobsbawm
USA: How the Military-Industrial Complex Is Using the Coronavirus ; William D. Hartung (...) -
LETTER TO THE READERS - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.6
3 May 2020Yesterday the Centre extended the nationwide lockdown for the second time for two weeks starting May 4. However, considerable relaxations have been announced in the green and orange zones; these include movement of private and public transport (...) -
The History of May Day | Eric Hobsbawm
3 May 2020by Eric Hobsbawm
The late historian Eric Hobsbawm recounts the history of International Workers’ Day.
In 1990 Michael Ignatieff, writing about Easter in the Observer, remarked that “secular societies have never succeeded in providing alternatives (...) -
USA: How the Military-Industrial Complex Is Using the Coronavirus
3 May 2020by William D. Hartung and Ben Freeman
There’s a battle brewing for the future of national security spending.
On one side, there’s a growing bipartisan consensus that the coronavirus has fundamentally changed the way we should think about (...) -
Nehru and Nature
3 May 2020, by Sukumaran C.V.by Sukumaran C.V.
We cannot go back to that old pantheistic outlook and yet perhaps we may still sense the mystery of nature, listen to its song of life and beauty, and draw vitality from it. That song is not sung in the chosen spots only, and (...)
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