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Standing up for integrity in public life - Naveen Patnaik Expels Party MLA for ’anti People’ Activity | S N Sahu
5 December 2020, by S N SahuThe momentous decision taken by the President of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and Chief Minister of Odisha on 29th November 2020 in removing a sitting BJD MLA Shri Pradeep Panigrahi from the primary membership of the party on account of his anti-people (...) -
Tributes to Diego Maradona show how easily violence against women is ignored | Joan Smith
5 December 2020by Joan Smith *
November 27, 2020
Too often we’re in denial about the fact that heroes – such as Maradona and Sean Connery – might also be abusers
Imagine a man hitting his partner. The picture that comes to mind probably involves a scruffy (...) -
Mink Strains of Covid Show the Potential Folly of a Vaccine | Martha Rosenberg
5 December 2020by Martha Rosenberg
November 13, 2020
The role of China’s wet markets in producing Covid is ignored for two reasons. Vaccines that Pharma is developing with $1 billion of our tax dollars would be shown to be a fool’s errand as new animal strains (...) -
India’s Adultrated Honey - An investigation by the CSE
5 December 2020The biggest brands producing honey have been exposed — so has the food product many consumed for its health benefits. A study conducted by the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) tested 22 samples of honey from 13 Indian (...) -
Farmers’ Mann ki Baat | Sukumaran C.V.
5 December 2020, by Sukumaran C.V.Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know But leechlike to their fainting country cling... —P.B.Shelley (sonnet England in 1819).
Two centuries ago, the great poet Shelley told the Peterloo protesters, Who were agitating for greater Reforms and (...) -
Only on a Sunday | L K Sharma
5 December 2020by L K Sharma
The poet teaches English literature, speaks at conferences, performs at literary festivals, restrains his daughter and takes his wife for a film after a scene.
Wearing a rehearsed smile and gold-rimmed glasses, guides a comely (...) -
Book Review: Rowe-McCulloch on Enstad, ’Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II’
5 December 2020Johannes D. Enstad. Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 272 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-42126-3; $32.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-108-43166-8.
Reviewed by Maris (...) -
Table of Contents - Mainstream, Nov 28, 2020
28 November 2020* Bengal CPI(M) hounded by the old nostalgic obsession | Arun Srivastava
* Bihar Elections, Owaisi and Political alliances | Ram Puniyani
* Universal Basic Income in India Too? | Pulin B Nayak and Mark Lindley
* South Africa: Migrant Labour After Apartheid Asanda-Jonas Benya -
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, November 28, 2020
28 November 2020Letter to The Readers, Mainstream, November 28, 2020
November 26 which is the Constitution day was marked by a one day protest action by major workers organisations and trade union federations AITUC, HMS, CITU, INTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, among (...) -
Bengal CPI(M) hounded by the old nostalgic obsession | Arun Srivastava
28 November 2020, by Arun Srivastavaby Arun Srivastava
The echo of the Historical Blunder has started reverberating in the political circle, especially among the left parties. Some left intellectuals and activists have also started dusting the pre-Hyderabad party Congress comments (...)
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