The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

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Date: 23/10/2007 (Tonight) Time: 9:30P.M. Venue: Mahi-Mandavi Hostel .

ALL ACTIVISTS AND SYMPATHIZERS ARE REQUESTED TO A WEND .

23/10/2007Fdends,JNUSU elections 2007-08 is taking place amidst acute national crisis, which is ideological as well as .

systemic. While a time has come wherein the concept of systemic change broached by ABVP needs to be discussed .

in the public space, the ideological perversions set in motion by the political parties in power needs to be arrested. .

In such a crttical situation when various groups are hankering. for their share in the p.ie and are ready to sacrifice the national interests, the student community of JNU would strengthen the nationalist spirit by voting for the ABVP that represents selfless dedication to nationalism and unity and integrity of India. .

The opportunism of the left stands exposed in the campus by the manner in which the anti-farmer .

incidents have been taking place in Nandigram and Singur. It is most shameful to note that the Police in collusion of the Communist activists are committing genocides in West Bengal and forcibly grabbing the lands of the farmers. While the left was vocally opposing the SEZs throughout the country it went on to implement it in Stalinist manner in West Bengal. Finding that the obsolete and obscurantist Marxist ideology that led to the collapse of USSR and other communist countries as redundant, the communists have finally moved towards .

extreme capitalism and anti-people measures. .

In the recent years, under the UPA we have seen the re-emergence of the politics of minority .

appeasement with Sachar Committee report and attempts to give reservations on religious lines. The most recent .

examples being the granting of reservations to Muslims and Christians in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh despite the courts verdicts to the contrary. While divisive vote bank politics is shamelessly practiced by the UPA and left, Vandemataram is opposed, Bhagwan Ram is portrayed as mythical and Ramsethu is sought to be destroyed seeking to humiliate and insult the feelings and religious sensibilities of the Hindus. The UPA has been also reckless in making India an appendage to the global capitalism thereby creating a situation wherein a large .

number of farmers are compelled to commit suicides, price rise has become the order of the day and poor sections of the populations continue to grovel under acute poverty. While anti national forces like terrorism, Maoism and Naxalism are strengthening their position in the country, the UPA government at the centre is busy in striking nuclear deal with the US compromising the national security and long-term national interests. .

On the campus, AISA-SFI has continued to indulge them-selves in lumpenism denigrating the student .

activism and JNUSU by taking the registrar of the university, Mr. Avais Ahmad hostage. They were able to escape .

punishment by writing apologies to the university and due to some shady dealings with the administration without .

the knowledge of the student community. They have remained inactive despite the fact that so far around 450 P-1 .

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Category students have not got the hostels accommodation. They have not spoken a single word on the .

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implementation of M.Phii/Ph.D fellowship from April 2005 and have accepted the administration's dictates in this .

regard. To demand Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship for economically and socially deprived section of the society is .

also not on the agenda of the SFI-AISA led JNUSU. There is also an unfortunate trend wherein the caste-politics has entered the realm of JNUSU elections at the behest of the communists and Youth For Equality (YFE). The divisive caste politics played by these outfits have further vitiated the university environment. We appeal to the student community to defeat them and ·give a clear mandate to the nationalist forces by ensuring the victory of ABVP candidates in the JNUSU elections. .

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Santosh Kr. Pathak Vimal Nayan Pandey Romit Ranjan .

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Non-denominational chapel in the grounds of Southmead hospital. Ugly or what?? Don't know why they build such un-inspiring buildings and use them as a chapel. Surely, given the location, it would seem more in keeping to have a really attractive, peaceful building. Just to complete the picture......this was taken from part of the car park where it stands, and the mortuary is just out of picture left. Non- compassionate chapel might seem more appropriate. PLEASE..don't take this as a denigrating statement about the chaplains department, they do a brilliant job, in very trying circumstances.

McVey's Barn - 1948

Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917 - 2009)

The New Britain painting depicts the interior of an abandoned barn that was owned by farmer John McVey, whose land adjoined Wyeths’Chadds Ford property. Most of the composition is dedicated to the description of wild hay and the beams of sunlight playing upon the weathered rafters and stalls. When first exhibited at New York's Macbeth Gallery the painting was praised for its brilliant handling of light and atmosphere, imaginative presentations of the objective world, and its masterful handling of the tempera medium. (1)

While the painting insists on the tactile qualities of the hay and the smooth boards and the warmth of the sunlight piercing the dusty atmosphere, it also contains a haunting note of melancholy in the old sled, just visible in the rafters, and in the long, covered, almost coffin-shaped wooden box. The enigmatic sled and box hint at a hidden narrative, at an explanation for the painting that goes beyond the palpable realities of texture and sunlight.

Death and decay is a major theme in Wyeth's works, both implicitly and explicitly. (2) Like “McVey's Barn”, many of his pictures evoke the loneliness of vast open spaces or empty interiors. (3) Throughout the years, Wyeth has explained a number of his paintings with brief anecdotes, which sometimes answer, but more often provoke, questions about the unsettling mood evoked. Distorted space and strange elongated angles are a vehicle for emotion. Common or mundane objects, such as a bucket, basket, boat, or sled, come to symbolize people. Versions of “McVey's Barn” resurface in “Hay Ledge” (1957; Gallet Co. Ltd., Japan) and in “Rafters” (1985; United Missouri Banks, Kansas City, Mo.), in which the artist used stored boats to symbolize their owners and the passing of time, persons, and events relegated to memory.

Andrew Wyeth, the son of the well-known illustrator N. C. Wyeth, was born in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Wyeth was virtually a child prodigy but was not submitted to the rigorous academic training of his father's studio until age fifteen. He first achieved public recognition in 1937, with a sold-out exhibition of watercolors at Macbeth Galleries, New York. In 1940 he was the youngest member ever elected to the American Watercolor Society, and in 1945 he was elected to the National Academy of Design. About 1940 he began painting in egg tempera, a painstaking process that complemented his quick and facile watercolor technique.

In 1943 Wyeth was included in "American Realists and Magic Realists," an important show at the Museum of Modern Art. In the catalogue-and for the next two decades-Wyeth was grouped with a number of American Realists who painted disquieting, sometimes surrealistic scenes evoking the spiritual malaise and uncertainty that followed World War II. For Wyeth, this brooding and introspective emotion was universal and personal, related in part to the death of his father in a car accident in 1945.

Despite the art climate of the 1950s, which favored abstraction and denigrated Realism, Wyeth's work became famously popular. “Christina's World” (1948; Museum of Modern Art, New York) made Wyeth a household name. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s he was given one-man shows at Macbeth Gallery and M. Knoedler in New York and at Doll and Richards in Boston, and after 1944 his works were featured almost yearly across the United States, first with small groups of Realist painters or with other Wyeth family artists, and later in larger one-man shows.

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The NBMAA collection represents the major artists and movements of American art. Today it numbers about 8,274 paintings, works on paper, sculptures, and photographs, including the Sanford B.D. Low Illustration Collection, which features important works by illustrators such as Norman Rockwell, Howard Pyle, and Maxfield Parrish.

Among collection highlights are colonial and federal portraits, with examples by John Smibert, John Trumbull, John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, and the Peale family. The Hudson River School features landscapes by Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Martin Johnson Heade, John Kensett, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederic Church. Still life painters range from Raphaelle Peale, Severin Roesen, William Harnett, John Peto, John Haberle, and John La Farge. American genre painting is represented by John Quidor, William Sidney Mount, and Lilly Martin Spencer. Post-Civil War examples include works by Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, George de Forest Brush, and William Paxton, and 19 plasters and bronzes by Solon Borglum. American Impressionists include Mary Cassatt, Theodore Robinson, John Henry Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, Willard Metcalf, and Childe Hassam, the last represented by eleven oils. Later Impressionist paintings include those by Ernest Lawson, Frederck Frieseke, Louis Ritman, Robert Miller, and Maurice Prendergast.

Other strengths of the twentieth-century collection include: sixty works by members of the Ash Can School; significant representation by early modernists such as Alfred Maurer, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Max Weber; important examples by the Precisionists Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Preston Dickinson, and Ralston Crawford; a broad spectrum of work by the Social Realists Ben Shahn, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, and Jack Levine; and ambitious examples of Regionalist painting by Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry, and Thomas Hart Benton, notably the latter’s celebrated five-panel mural, The Arts of Life in America (1932).

Works by the American Abstract Artist group (Stuart Davis, Ilya Bolotowsky, Esphyr Slobodkina, Balcomb Greene, and Milton Avery) give twentieth-century abstraction its place in the collection, as do later examples of Surrealism by artists Kay Sage and George Tooker; Abstract Expressionism (Lee Krasner, Giorgio Cavallon, Morris Graves, Robert Motherwell, Sam Francis, Cleve Gray), Pop and Op art (Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Robert Indiana, Tom Wesselman, Jim Dine), Conceptual (Christo, Sol LeWitt), and Photo-Realism (Robert Cottingham). Examples of twentieth-century sculpture include Harriet Frishmuth, Paul Manship, Isamu Noguchi, George Segal, and Stephen DeStaebler. We continue to acquire contemporary works by notable artists, in order to best represent the dynamic and evolving narrative of American art.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

"In a move of breathtaking audacity, the UAE Ministry of Labour have announced that migrant workers are to be reclassified as temporary workers. In case anybody is unsure of the etymology of 'temporary' it comes from the Latin temporarius and means 'for a limited time'. Apparently this reclassification will be for the benefit of all concerned, except anybody who isn't Emirati, white or rich. It has nothing at all; repeat nothing at all, to do with minimizing the rights of migrant workers by further denigrating their already ridiculously lowly status.

Let's be under no illusion as to what it is they mean by 'temporary': they mean 'not worth as much'; they mean 'second-rate human beings"

taken from a report on mafiwasta.com ,workers' rights in the UAE

"We will destroy idiocy of denigrating womanhood" ~ Mahakavi Subramaniya Bhaarathiyaar.

Today is Mahakavi Subramaniya Bhaarathiyaar's 129th birth anniversary. He was a women's friendly poet. My tribute to the Great Tamil poet Mahakavi Subramaniya Bhaarathiyaar. Remembering a Remarkable Poet passionparade.blogspot.com/2011/09/remembering-remarkable...

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Jamiat's insidious agenda: Rejecting .

Vande Mataram is insulting India .

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5/ 11/2009 .

Friends, The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind has not done the Muslims of India any favour by adopting a clutch of .

resolutions that not only reflect the regressive agenda of the ulema but also strengthen the stereotyping of the .

is the one which endorses the 2006 fatwa issued by Darul Uloom, Deoband, prohibiting Muslims from singing .

community as backward-looking and refusing to change with the times. The most provocative of the resolutions the Nation-al Song, Vande Mataram, even in its truncated form which is the 'official' version. That the Jamiat .

the mullahs who had gathered for the organisation's 30th general session at Deoband intended to demonstrate Ulama-i-Hind should have thought it fit to recall a fatwa issued three years ago is not without design: Clearly .

upon Muslims to "don their Islamic identity" and say salam instead of namaste. Both the resolutions are of a that the Muslim community is not bound by the national identity with other Indian communities. In a sense, the .

resolution against Vande t"'ataram is as much a reiteration of Muslim separatism as the resolution which calls .

piece with the 23 others that seek to carve out a separate space for India's Muslims where they will have the .

right to deprive women of their dignity as "bringing women into the mainstream will create social problems and .

issues including their security", enforce sharia'h on girls once they are 10 years old, prevent people from watching either cinema or television, and say no to the state's efforts to contain diseases like AIDS and polio. At the same time, the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind wants all the benefits of a secular state to accrue to the Muslims. In brief, the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind wants a separate state within the Indian state which will be ruled by mullahs. .

Apart from jobs in the public sector and education funded by tax-payers, the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind also wants .

proportionate representation for Muslims in elected bodies, including Parliament. The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind does .

not want the Government to interfere with madarsas by way of setting up a Central Board because theological .

schools are meant to produce clerics. If so be the case, then the Government must not only cut-off all funding .

for madarsas but also withdraw recognition for certificates issued by theological schools. The public exchequer .

is not meant for producing Islamic clerics. .

Tragically, the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind's antediluvian though insidious agenda and its provocative assault on .

Indian nationhood by reiterating the fatwa against Vande Mataram have been legitimised by the presence of .

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram at the Deoband gathering. This is not to suggest that he was party to the what had transpired at the meeting. The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind did not keep the resolutions a secret; on the .

outrageous resolutions; after all, as Mr Chidambaram has pointed out, all this was done before he arrived to address the gathering. But two points merit mention. First, as Home Minister, he should have been aware of contrary, they were posted on the organisation's wehsite. Second, it was expected of him to unequivocally ulama's vision of a joyless world where women are treated as no more than chattel and where modernity is condemn the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind's denigration of the National Song and register his disagreement with the shunned with vengeance. It is immaterial that the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind has craftily parroted the oft-quoted definit,ion of jihad as being different from terrorism. Such vacuous declarations convince nobody, least of all .

jihadis who kill in the name of Islam. .

Hind and likes (who should first learn what Bharat is) and urge progressive student community of .

JNU to demands for abolition of such unconstitutional and anti-social fanatic institution which want.

ABVP strongly condemn the narrow and idiotic ideas of fatwa issuing bodies Jamiat Ulama-i-.

We calls upon all the Nationalist, to jeopardize the stability and progress of the Indian society. .

Democratic and Progressive minded students of JNU to rally behind ABVP and defeat the divisive, undemocratic, inhumane and anti-national designs of the Islamists. .

andemataram! Bharat Mata Ki Jai!! .

Sd/-Sudheer, Secretary, ABVP, JNU. .

Visit us: jnuabvp.blogspot.conll .

Please join: abvpitc.ning.corn/ .

E-mail us: abvpjnu@gmail.conl.

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Sd/-Rajesh Ranjan, President, ABVP, JNU. .

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The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

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confabulations of some groups. Considerin that some of the constituents AISF DSF of this 'forum' have had councilors in the current JNUSU the did not even deem this issue im ortant enou h to be raised in JNUSU Council meetin s. Why this sudden and belated concern just a couple of weeks before the elections?? Why this tremendous keenness for a 'forum' that des .:.. the o~ga~ization that took a strong anti-LCR stance from the time it was formulated?? Why this desperation to keep out an organ1zat1on that ensured that the need to resist lCR and the larger concern for 'campus democracy' became issues of na -· importance?? Anyone who has heard their campaign knows that it is less against Lyngdoh and more against AISA and the A-led .

JNusu. It is a campaign which, keeping in sight the upcoming JNUSU el.ections, attempts to undermine the struggles and huge .

advances of the AISA-led JNUSU in the past year. .

Joint Struggle Committee (JSC) Against Lyngdoh and ·Mushrooming of Seasonal Sectarian Forums .

Soon after a stay was imposed on the JNUSU elections in 2008, aJoint Struggle Committee (JSC) was formed comprising ofall the organizations opposed to Imposition of LCR in JNU. It was through the democratic forum of UGBM that the JSC was given the mandate of launching a political and legal battle against LCR and initiating a struggle to bring back the JNUSU elections. The aim was to maximize unity in 'anti-lyngdoh' struggles. It is this JSC which was mandated by UGBM and remains petitioner in the JNU students' case in the Supreme Court against the Imposition of LCR. In 2012, it was through another democratically sought mandate ofthe UGBM that the JNUSU elections were reinstated with some relaxations from LCR. Thereafter, some organizations, .

have seasonallyfloated supposedly 'anti-Lyngdoh' forums which have consistently failed to even attempta large scale mobilization on an 'anti-Lyngdoh' plank, let alone come up with constructive suggestions. .

The History of Such Seasonal Formations: In 2012, the so called 'Struggle Com mitt e Against Lyngdoh, Brahminism, and Privatisation' was formed. The claimed to be staunch! o osed to elections under L n doh and et themselves artici ated in the March 2012 elections (which were conducted under modified LCR) I The leadership and cadres of DSU (which was one of the constituents of that forum, and claiming to boycott elections under LCR), were seen to be actively strateglzing and campaigning for the candidates of this forum. It is a different matter that the forum's campaign against 'Lyngdoh' ended with 2012 elections, and nobody knows whether or not the forum still exists! I In 2013 Sep-Oct, another so-called 'Joint Forum Against Lyngdoh' was formed, again without any public call but only through private negotiations of some organizations including DSF. .

Activities of these forum~: Apartfrom hopping from one forum to another, what have these various platforms actually done, in terms ofconcrete initiatives against the LCR?The only set of programmes they held In this whole year was organized just before the Important Academic Council meeting of October 2013, right in the middle of JNUSU's struggle for an autonomousJNU Press, for more d mocratization of student-teacher relationship, for hostels and enhancement of the MCM income cap. Importantly, they NEVER bothered to come up with any constructive sugeestions or a roadmap to handle the situation we are faced with In our.

collective struggle against Lyngdoh. .

Flowing logically from the sectarian manner in which it was formed, the subsequent activities of the Forum have only underlined their REAL agenda of mindless anti-AIS/\ism. As the members of this forum set out to term the current JNUSU as 'defunct', they must answer-Do the collective achievements of the student community mean nothing to them or Is It that their blind 'anti-AISAism' is so central to their existence, that they would rather belittle students' collective achievements instead ofacknowledgins them? Or perhaps, given their 10 month long slumber preceding these 10 days of pre-election activism, it was but natural that both the students' struggles and as well as the achievements thereof, remain unknown to them. In light ofsuch serious memory .

lapses, may we remind them what the 'defunct' JNUSU led struggles yielded in the last one yearl .

Struggles, Achievements and Advances in the Past Year .

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In the past one year, the JNUSU fought and won a range ofstruggles for a more inclusive JNU. These include; raising of income cap .

of the MCM scholarship from llakh to 2.51akh, thus bril')ging far more needy students under its ambit, reversal ofthe delinklng .

of the BA-MA programme in SLL&CS (EVEN for the existing batches which took admission under the delinked BA programme); .

setting up an autonomous 'Open Access' model ofJNU Press; opening ofthe library and Sports Stadium 24x7; ensuring grade-.

percentage conversion, recognition of the 'other' option in gender by JNU in admission forms; a Central Placement Web Portal .

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has been launched; expansion of dorm facilities and starting the construction of new hostel, rebuffing the draconian fine raJ .

proposed by the DoS; a crucial case Is being fought by the JNUSU in the Supreme Court for reduction ofviva-weightage in JNU .

admissions, workers' rights and maternity leave for workers have been fought for; embezzlement of PF funds of workers was .

nailed. The JNUSU whom they call 'non functional', is the same JNUSU that dared to take the corporate-fascist threat posed by .

Modi head on by launching an anti-Modi campaign in Banaras, reached out to Muzaffarnagar riot victims and the evicted slum .

dwellers of Mansarover Park with relief and support and got thrashed by police in the anti-FYUP struggle. It has indeed been an .

year ofstruggles and advances that holds immense meaning for every student who cares for JNU's democratic ethos and inclusive .

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character. .

Yet, all these organisations who are today part of the 'Joint Front' shamelessly refused to support JNUSU on several crucial .

occasions. What is the purpose of denigrating these struggles and historic achievements? What is achieved by trivializing the .

anti Lyngdoh struggle by raising the issue a week before the process for JNUSU polls is to start? .

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We appeal to the student community to beware of such irresponsible campaigns, launched clearly with immediate political .

interests of certain organizations in mind. For some irresponsible political groups should not be allowed to jeopardize the holding ofJNUSU polls, since an elected JNUSU is crucial to carry forward the battle against Lyngdoh Committee Recommendations, against privatization and saffronization, and for a hos~ of students' and people's rights. .

Shweta Raj President, AISA, JNU Ashutosh Kumar, Gen. Secy, AISA, JNU .

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The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Offshore & Bays Festival in aid of the RNLI, Princess Gardens, Torquay.

Offshore Restaurant and bar on Vaughan Parade, Torquay Harbourside, has a reputation for supporting local musicians and often has acts performing inside or outside the bar. Their annual fundraiser for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has become so popular that this year Torbay Council gave them permission to set up their main stage at the Banjo in Princess Gardens.

In July 2021 Nigel Farage referred to the RNLI as a 'taxi service for migrants' following a number of rescues at sea. Such was the outrage which greeted this comment, that donations to the Institution - which receives no Government funding - rose 3000% in a single day. Whilst the money was undoubtedly welcome, this should not have been at the expense of denigrating the brave men and women who give their time - mostly voluntarily - to keep people safe at sea.

Do not believe Nigel Farage and his Reform Party when they claim they speak for 'ordinary people'. They really do not.

Sunday 11th May 2025

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Terrorism communalism and Indian politics: exposing the interlinkages (1) .

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Friends, life had never been this vulnerable. We as a people, live under the pcrenmal threat of bemg bombed while buying medicines, killed while praying. are butchered by communal hooligans out on prowl. .

Unf(lt1unatelv~ the worst victims of these dastardly acts of violence arc common, poor people, living under precarious living conditions. Think about the plight of street hawkers, rag pickers, petty shop keepers who struggle hard "' to survive und~r tremendous adversiti~s and just manage to make both ends meet by exhausting all they have. day after day. After any such incidents they become the worst victi1ns, losing their lives as well as .

livelihoods. That is why these attempts of unleashing tenor against com1non, innocent civilian require .

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unequivocal condemnations and call upon an all out struggle against perpetrators of such mindless acts. .

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condemns the recent serial blasts in Delhi strongly and holds UPA gove1nment accountable for repeatedly failing .

to ensure safety and security of Indian citizens, ofall religions. .

This becomes really important as govcmn1ents usc these gory incidents to further their interests and precisely .

secular' UPA govem1nent's handling of these incidents .

because of this reason, we sec no difTerence between '' intelligence authorities who .

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from its predecessor 'BJ P led NDA's 'con1munal' go\·en1n1ent. The same police and.

have spectacularly failed in solving much talked about Aantshi Talwars murder case even after many months, .

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found 'conclusive' evidence against the perpetrators of the serial blasts. Their infotmation went to the extent that .

they not only knew the identities of the n1asten11ind of the conspiracy, bomb makers but also their movements .

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across the country. \\·11at they did not tell us, ofcourse, was the fact that despite having all these pieces together, .

why they could not stop the blasts from taking place. More -disturbing is the fact that going by the media .

briefings of Delhi's co1runissioncr of police, it beco1nes really tough to ascertain if he is taking his briefs from .

intelligence sources or is sourcing then1 straight from speeches of likes of L K Adavani and Narendra Modi .

pa11icipating in BJP's national conclave being held in Banglore. .

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It has become evident that both BJP and Congress (and their ixnperialist bosses in US) have been using the notion .

of terrorism as the most effcctin~ tool in their weaponry to demolish, demonize and denigrate any move1nent .

opposing their policies. The tactics has been age-old. Can we forget that Bhagat Singh is still a 'terrorist' in the .

history text books of B1itain (incidentally the same state from which our prime minister Manmohan Singh has .

lcan1t good governance as he himself said in his acceptance speech in Oxford where he was conferred with an .

honora1y degree? Or the fact that Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) is still listed as a terrorist organisation in .

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will keep doing so. And for all their cffor1s of demonising the people's struggles, the mo\·ements \Vill stand .

Yictorious as they have done in Nepal against monarchy and in Pakistan against military dictatorship..

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US state department's dossiers? The fact is that people have risen up against autocratic states despite all odds and .

s idea of tenorism and will have to think afresh. using our Precisely here, we would have to tear apart the state'.

Unlike terro1ist outfits (first supponed by US itself in Afghanistan) brains and intellectual capacities. revolutionary organisations right from Hindustan Socialist Republican Anny to CPN (Maoist) have never .. targeted innocent civilians. Any act of violence aimed at killing and maiming innocent people is not a struggle .

but an act of tenor, in plain and simple te11ns. And these acts should not only b~ conde1nned but also decisively .

dealt with. Unf011unately. this remains easier said than done because of the right wing forces at both ends of .

spectaum. Unlike its media po11rayal. the ttuth is that serial blasts in Delhi arc just as grave as Hindutva fascist forces' recent attack on Christians in Karnataka and Orissa Of the state-supponed pogrom ofMuslims in Gujrat in 2002. The fact that serial blasts in lndia ha vc started taking place f()llowing the traiI ofRathYatra carried out L K Adavani in 1992 is not merely a coincidence. BJP (and all members of Sangh kabila) since then, have left no '-.

stone untumcd to cmnmunalise the country and attack minorities. The failure of Indian state in defeating the .

communal designs of these outfits, in punishing the perpetrators of genocide of Muslims in Gujrat and of .

Christians in Orissa has created a sense of vulnerability in the Indian minorities. And the fact ofthe matter is that f.

can be no com1nunal harmony till these cotru11unal goons arc restrained and put to their proper places, i.e., .

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Engaging with these compelling questions urgently is the historic responsibility of ours and we caru1ot shirk .

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head on and not to shy away from the 1nost difficult of questions. PSU calls upon the student conu11unity to .

mobilize itself against the communal agenda of the ABVP and its patrons and to put up a resolute tight against .

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The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal, in Agra, in loving memory of his wife Mumtaz. His son Aurangzeb, who overthrew him, built the Bibi-Ka-Maqbara as a mausoleum to his wife Rabia-ud-Durrani.

This is the monument for which Aurangabad is best known, probably because it was obviously intended to rival the Taj Mahal, which it imitates. The comparison with the Agra monument has unfortunately somewhat denigrated the Aurangabad tomb which in itself displays a worthwhile architectural design, with much distinguished surface ornamentation in the late Mughal style.

The mausoleum dates from 1678 and it was erected by Prince Azam Shah, one of Aurangzeb's sons, in memory of Begum Rabia Durani, his mother. It stands in the middle of a spacious and formally planned garden, some 457 by 274 metres, with axial ponds, fountains, and water channels, many defined by stone screens and lined with broad pathways. The garden is enclosed by high crenellated walls with bastions set at intervals, and open pavilions on three sides.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

Take one and only one photo moments before the midnight deadline and then weeks later learn to hate it. No matter how I denigrate, obliterate or obfuscate this image, all that I hate about it remains to haunt me. I could ignore it, claim it was yet another day I missed and yet that would be dishonest. Not because I would be deceiving the wider world but because I would be deceiving myself. It would also serve to hide the happiness that existed then. For my team-mates and I had triumphed in yet another debate and we were headed for a post debate Indian in celebration. So I proffer this image in all its failed glory as testimony to that moment.

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STUDENTS' FEDERATION OF INDIA ALL INDIA STUDENTS' FEDERATION .

29.10.04 .

Friends, .

The ABVP is trying to engage the campus in a debate on 'cultural nationalism'. The truth is ABVP is using euphemisms to disguise .

the extremely communal, casteist and patriarchal vision that they have of the Indian nation. .

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The RSS, of which ABVP is a student wing, derives its ideological inspiration from people like Golwarkar, Hegdewar and .

Savarkar. Golwarkar in his work We, the Nationhood Defined, argues for an Indian nation where the minority communities would .

occupy the position of second class citizens. Contrary to a 'celebration of cultural linkages' (ABVP pamphlet dated 26.10.04) the .

nationhood defined by RSS Ideologues celebrates a monolithic hindutva identity with the slogan I hindi, hindu, hindusfhan'. In his .

writings Golwarkar clearly states that those who do not conform to the RSS' monolithic idea of nationhood have no space in India, .

especially those who espouse different religions. The exclusivist ideology of the RSS, which derives inspiration from the .

Manusmriff, is also staunchly brahmancial. Not only does it find no place for those of the deprived castes, but also justifies the .

inequalities of the caste system. It is no surprise, therefore, that the period under the BJP led NDA government saw not only some .

of the worst incidents of communal violence since partition but also some of the highest incidents of caste atrocities, Jhallar being .

just one example. The RSS vision of India also denigrates the dignity of women, who are sought to be restricted to a traditionally .

subservient position. Some of the worst social practices against women like sat! and dowry have been supported by the RSS-BJP .

tr1 the name of defending Indian culture. .

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The ABVP, which speaks at length on the two-nation theory, forgets its own record as the supporter of the two-.

nation theory. Savarkar, in his address to the Hindu Mahasabha in 1943 explicitly declared, I have no quarrel with Mr Jinnah's two.

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nation theory. We, the Hindus, are a nauon by ourselves and It is a historical fact that Hindus and Muslims are two nations'. The historical fact is that the RSS supported the partition of India. The ideological position of the Muslim League and the RSS on the partition of India are in complete consonance with each other. Its hatred for those who fought for communal harmony saw its worst form in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, by Nathuram Godse~ a disciple of Savarkar. The history of the RSS in post independence India has been one of fostering communal tensions and riots. The demolition of Sabri Masjid, for the RSS, was an expression of cultural nationalism. The ABVP pamphlet dated 27.10.04, which was a vitriolic outburst against the Muslim community, was just one glimpse of the kind of hate campaigns they carry out against other communities. However, we find it appalling that the so-called left and secular organisations have not found the necessity to respond to it on an immediate basjs. .

Off late, in its pamphlets, the NSUI has been trying to appropriate the slogan of socialism. The structural adjustment programmes that have destroyed the welfare model of Indian state were introduced by the Congress. Congress' lack of commitment to democracy was completely exposed during the imposition of emergency in 1975. It is the model of Congress style democracy which has time and again compromised with the federal character of Indian state, in favour of increased centralisation, leading to increased problems in the Northeast and Jammu and Kashmir. NSUI's attempts to hijack the slogan of socialism sounds hcllow from an organisation that supports the moves for the privatisation of education across the country. .

Across the country Congress has failed to take a consistent stand on the issue of communalism. In the last six years it is the Left forces that have waged the most consistent struggles against the communal BJP government. While the Left support to the Congress led government at the centre is based on the determination to keep BJP out of power, we are still engaged in a struggle to ensure the implementation of pro-people policies. Within our campus also we have seen that in the fight against the ABVP it is SFI-AJSF that led the struggle, while NSUl has been pitifully absent. However, the NSUI has no qualms in joining hand with the ABVP against the SFI-AJSF combine, while the AISA is premising its campaigns on anti-left propaganda. In the forthcoming elections to the JNUSU, we would appeal to the student community to strengthen the left, secular and progressive character of JNU and give a positive mandate to the SFI-AISF combine. .

SSS Councillor aditi vyas arindam .

b. reena rani .

divya chcrian kame sudarshan kumar .

SFI-AISF Candidates for JNUSU Elections 2004 Central Panel .

President: PARIMAL M. SUOHAKAR .

V.President: ENA PANDA .

Gen. Secy.: MUQBIL AH MAR .

Jt.Secy.: SONA MITRA .

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SIS Councillor .

a. arun prashanth amritasbva kamal dhananjay .

priya naik rishava bharti a .

SLL&CS Councillor manizah imam md. shahdab khalil ozair ahmad ratnesh kumar vaibha'\-i desh ande .

Sd/· Rohit, Nimesh Chandra; {Co-Convenors}, Central Campaign Committee, SFI-AISF. .

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The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

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A PUBUC MEETING .

DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OFREVOLUTIONARYHINDI POETBA.BA NAGARJUN .

SPEAKER: PRANAV KRISHNA EX·PRESIDENT JNUSU .

VENUE: SUTLEJMESS DATE 06fl.II9B ' .

TIME: 09. 30 P.M. .

FORA DECISIVE BATTLE AGAINST PRIVATISATION & SAFFRONISATION OF EDUCATION! .

Thanks to the commander of the 20-year-old left bastion ofBengal, Comrade Basu, the intentions ofhis are ~:=~eryone. Two _days back. inaugurating a World Congress ofTrade Union International ofPublic and AU:1npl:: in ~u~ned ~deunJons agahut ftCOurse to militanc-y while the State Government had given a special thnut to.

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ustriallsation. (The Hmdu, 5 November). .

Jyoti Basu's caution has the following implications : .

a) It denigrates a vital communist form of praxis. .

b) It justifies the lame logic of Indian CQpitalists that trade union militancy is the cause ofindustrial backwardness of .

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Bengal. c) It exposes Jyoti Basu's mortal fear that working class militancy will disrupt his dream of industrialisation. .

And what this 'industrialisation' in West Bengal stands for is known to all. The same red bastion ofCalcutta which hosts a World Congress ofTrade Unions today, has also laid out the red carpet to MNCs many a times in the recent past. !wenty years back Jyoti Babu inaugurated his innings with the call that the LF government will rule from the fields and the factones and not from the Writer's Building. But today, betraying its own working class be stands hand in hand with the rightist gameplan of 'in~ustrialising' the nation with :MNC in the driver's seat. But hear them speak and Jyoti Babu's party will wax eloquent over theu tooth-and-nail opposition to privatisation and integerating with the global economy-all replete in leftist rhetoric. What an exercise in white he f .

The pursuance of the neo-liberal prescriptions to restructure our economy is orgarucally linked with the ascendance of fascist forces . By following the same economic policies in their own bastions, the Left bas provided space for the growth of fascists forces. It wasn't swprising then to see the Trina.mul-BJP coalition scoring major victories in the heart ofthe working class belt in .

Bengal in the last parliamentary elections. .

Let's come back to Coouade Basu's caution. Whtn Bengalatands fint In the amoWlt ofPF and ESI defaults, are the worken under Jyoti Babu' rule expected to 'hold dlscus:lions and reac:h satlJfactory agreements' with the management? When Jyou Babu's partymen bulldoze through the slreets of Calcutta evicting thousands ofhawkers so as to make Calcutta's streets more presentable to MNCs, are the hawkers expected to sit quiet and abandon what Jyoti Babu so condescendingly calls :militancy'? Is his new oode for the working class a step towards their prosperity? Or is it a ploy to disarm the working class again!lt unbridled amassing of wealth by the MNCs? · .

For us in JNU, Jyoti .Babu's caution rings a belL .

For about a month the campus has been witness to a debate : what constitutes stiUienl 'mililancy' against the onslaught of saffi'onisation and privatisation ofeducation. Isn't the comrades in SFI parroting the same logic of their revered comrade from Bengal. Thanks to Jyoti Babu, we understand more clearly what our friends in SFI were trying to mean when they equated militancy with violence. We also now understand their emphasis on closed-door discussions in the Pink Palace to reach an amicable and ·satisfactory' agreement ruther than a ·militant' show of student power for their rightful demands. By now we also know, what this strategy of the SFI-led JNUSU, finally gave the students on the campus. Displacing the students to Mahipalpur while doling out lands ofJNU. .

No one denies that in some situations the JNUSU has to negotiate across the table with the administration. But not on unequal terms. SFI's denigration of ' militancy' as some variety ofpmvocative violence, is a red herring to abandon the task of preparing the student community for the larger and crucial battle ahead. The battle against saffronisation and privatisation of education in general, and the ?ieee-meal privatisation of our University in particular. .

The experience of this decade ofprivatisation has shown us that privatisation doesn't come as a one-time package. It is tactfully spread out to avoid any powerful student reaction that it might create. But it is most unfortunate that rather than gearing-up the students to face the overall struggle against privatisation, SFI congratulates itselffor all its compromises (M.ahipalpur & Teflas) and silences (land-scams) ! .

In our battles of today we prepare ourselves for the decisive war for tomorrow. A leadership that cannot look beyond the next "cosmetic gains" ofour everyday battles can never save this campus as an outpost of resistance against the larger onslaught of saffronisation and <'.ommercialisation of education. These elections are crucial in that respect. .

Res11"ect the spirit oft~nd-privati:uwm movemenJ of'95 I .

Prepare the student communityfor the dec-isive battle$ aheiU/ !I .

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AJSA'S CENTRAL PANEL CANDIDATES KAVITA KRISHNAN -PRESIDENT KUMAR DHANANJAY -VICE-PRESIDENT MANISHA SETin GEN. SECRETARY MD. ABU BAKAR JT. SECRETARY SSS Panel Bikramadltya Choudhary Dinamani Bhim Mana' Mlllnd Nilanjana Sengupta Panrati Sharma SLPanel Ninj Kumar Md. Sbamim Nootan Meena Rajil' Abdullah SIS Pagel Kamleth Meena Deepak Kuj~ar .

Sd/-lrfao Ahmed, Convenor, Central Campaign Committee .

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The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

“ Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."

-Henry Miller

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

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Democratising Science School functioning: Transparency in lab allotment, evaluation particularly in 98 cases, timely procurement of chemicals, books and disbursal of fellowships has to be ensured. .

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Resisting arbitrary hostel rules and allotment policies, administrative high-handedness, and an emerging culture of moral policing and surveillance by the JNU Administration. .

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Ensuring democracy and transparency in setting up of the path-breaking JNU Press. .

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Expanding student representation in the AC/ BoS, rem oval of undemocratic grade point criteria and representation of Equal Opportunity Office in the Academic Council. .

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The crucial struggle against the Lyngdoh Committee recommendat ions and restoration of JNUSU constitution has to be carried forward: the national platform on the issue, formed in July 2012, has to be .

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The Faculty recruitment which has started last year must strictly follow norms of reservations. We demand that OBC reservation should be implemented at ALL levels of faculty appointment. .

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Ensuring and defending mandatory wages and rights of the workers on campus. .

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Task Force Resisting Patriarchal Commonsense and Defending GSCASH .

During the past year, AISA and the JNU student community has played a leading role in the spirited movement against sexual violence, rape culture, victim blaming and the all pervasive patriarchal.

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happened right in our cam pus on 31st July this year only underlines the need to strengthen and intensify our battle for gender justice. .

GSCASH is one of the most important institutions in our campus, and implementation of GSCASH verdicts in sexual harassment complaints, without delay or dilution, has to be ensured, especially in several recent cases relating to people in positions ofpower and inlluence. such as faculty members. GSCASH infrastructure must be improved to ensure its confidentiality and efficiency. A systematic thoroughgoing process of gender sensitisation and discussion has to be put in place in order to address the pervasive patriarchal common sense in our campus and society. An important step in this direction was initiated in July 2012 when JNUSU and GSCASH together organised the mandatory orientation .

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The proposal for a gender module which will be mandatorily introduced in various schools and centres has been discussed ir.1 BoS meetings, and this process has to be taken to its logical conclusion . .

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The use of students' names in answer books should be stopped, and rather only registration numbers of students should be mentioned to avoid possible discrimination. Moreover, regular and timely feed-back of mid-term evaluations should be provided to students. .

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be democratized. Instances of teachers denigrating students based on their backgrounds, intimidating students and even trying to impose 'dress codes' and moral policing have been noted in SLL&CS. .

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The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The image in today's Inspiration features my good friend Michael Simon; the phrase, "intentional kindness," comes from one of my speaker bureau agents, Drew Sullivan. One teaches us the importance of finding moments of joy when we need it most and the importance of 'giving back'; the other involves intentionally making those moments of joy for others because they truly matter.

It's a long post, but I want you to read it.

Why? We seem to be living in a world in which the core values of human decency seem to be disappearing at the speed with which societal norms are unraveling. As an example, I have read that one of the latest trends with the tech oligarchs - folks like Elon Musk and the young men who worship them - is that they find it to be fashionable to use denigrating words and phrases. They seem to think that it is all one big joke and that somehow, this provides them a boost to their 'machismo' - far from it. Most recently, their childish immaturity has extended to the regular use of the 'retard,' as if that somehow empowers them and makes them stronger

I do not know what darkness lies in the depths of their soul, but I know I and others will fight this darkness with all our might.

So let me start with my friend Michael. Here's a photo from a few weeks ago when we were both wrapping up a wonderful ski day.

I've known Michael since he was 2 years old.

Now 29, he is a special needs young adult who has a unique genetic condition that has limited his full abilities - and yet, he has achieved capabilities that experts have said might never be possible. It was said he could never ski - he learned to ski. It was said he would never be able to master a snowboard. Today, he 'shreds' with the best of them. He has accomplished many other things in his life - and he has the most infectious smile of any person I have ever known.

If I ever have a bad day, all I have to do is see an image of Michael smiling as he is going by. I will see this smile when I join him on the lift line, or when I upload a picture of him to the Website I maintain in my spare time. (It's for a charity that provides Michael and others with day activities that enhance their lives. It's called Eventsfor.Life - I've mentioned it before. My wife is on the Board; I provide a lot of tech support.)

Check out the image on the far right from one page on the site - that's Michael working away in the arena cafe, a role that helps him to play a wonderful role in our world. His joy in being a participant is simply palpable - and it brings joy to the hearts of all who meet him.

Look at his smile! When he is working in the arena cafe - where an entire team of special needs young adults manages the shop - he is simply overjoyed. Check those who are with him - they too have a purpose, a moment that matters, something accomplished.

You can't see Michael smile and, in these moments of despair, worry, and concern, find some joy some sort of joy creeping into your own heart. Michael's smile is a crucible of joy and a cauldron of inspiration.

We all need more moments like this. We should all find the joy around us because those are the moments that matter. You can help to 'generate it by getting involved, giving back, and supporting those who are under attack, marginalized, or who need attention and help. That's why social causes are even more important today than they were before.

In my case, it comes from the small bit of work I do to help out this particular organization. The particular image used in today's Inspiration featuring Michael is from a banner that was featured on the home page of the Website for a time; we try to rotate them frequently. Check the other participants. How can you not see another image from the website and find that your heart is touched directly by something special?

They might have special needs, but they give us something special that we all need.

The essential human element of intentional kindness has given them the opportunity of lives that provide them the foundation for this joy. Intentional kindness. Ponder that phrase.

Here's the thing - the community where this initiative is located has rallied behind the program, providing a heartwarming level of intentional kindness. The young adults are welcomed; donations are made; support is given; and action is taken. In this complex and increasingly dark world, the community is discovering what I and my family have discovered - we can find our joy by looking for the moments that matter.

We have also learned of the unique superpower that comes from intentional kindness. When you get involved with an initiative like this, your world forever changes. Are you in a moment of despair with our complex world? Find these moments! Need to find a bit of heartwarming inspiration in these complex times? Get involved in local initiatives in your community that help you to give back You will find your joy by helping to make the moments that make the joy. Dig deep and find the power of intentional kindness. You might be stunned by the power you find within it.

What might you learn? You will find what happens when you make moments that matter. This photo features my other friend Thomas, with my son Thomas and our good family friend Thomas, taken a few years ago at our ski hill. It's the 3 Thomases!

My friend Thomas has non-verbal Down syndrome - he can't communicate and is not as physically and emotionally advanced as he could be. And yet, Thomas skis - boy, does he ski! - and he has a wicked drive out on the golf course. Check out his jacket - it's from his participation in the 2012 National Special Olympics, held in St. Albert, Alberta. He too is a member of EFL, as we call it; his mom started the program just about a decade ago because she perceived a need within the community. I marvel at the fact my son Thomas and the other Thomas can find a small moment of joy simply by spending a moment with their buddy Thomas. I remember the day this photo was taken - moments after, the 3 of them headed off to the lift line together. The melody from the song Wonderful World floated through my mind. That's the power of moments that matter.

These are moments that matter Find them, chase them, discover them, hunt them down - and make them a part of your world, because it will help you to keep your human values intact, reinforced, and protected, particularly in these dark and complex times.

Practice intentional kindness every day.

This brings me to the second part of my story - a post I saw on LinkedIn yesterday from Drew Sullivan; he's an agent at APB Speakers, one of several bureaus who represents me and books me into various keynotes.

It's no secret that some of the first things to go in an era of economic uncertainty are meetings, conferences, leadership meetings, and events. I'm witnessing a significant slowing in my bookings going forward, and am hearing all around of pullbacks everywhere. There is a lot of stress, uncertainty, worry, and concern. I see it as a speaker; Drew sees it as an agent.

Drew posted this message today. He often posts things like this; he often wears his heart on his sleeve in what he shares online. He is a proud alcoholic in recovery, living the life that comes with successfully conquering one's demons. He also came out several years ago, fully comfortable in the public skin of his sexuality. He proudly speaks to the joy he has found in the peace in his life.

In that way, he is not afraid to share what is on his mind.

I want you to read his post in full, and I want you to ask yourself these questions: What could you do today to make a moment that matters for someone else who might be hurting? For someone who might be in pain? Someone who is in a circumstance that could be helped, in a small way, by some small gesture from you Where can you do a small outreach to someone to ease their mind, provide some comfort, discover some joy?

We live in increasingly dark and complex times. Ask yourself - what are you doing to find the moments that matter?

And what are you doing to make the moments that matter?

Because it matters.

And if you have read this far, I want you to tell me about a recent moment that matters. Because for me, it matters. Find me at jcarroll@jimcarroll.com

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From Drew Sullivan

Have you ever had a moment when a single phone call shifted your perspective unexpectedly? These calls, though not always lengthy or monumental, can have a profound impact and tend to happen when you least expect them.

Recently, I found myself in such a situation. The past month and a half has been a challenging period for me, much like many others. The decisions made by our political leaders have brought joy and celebration to some while causing devastation and significant career shifts for others, including myself.

In an industry that champions free speech, innovation, and leadership, witnessing colleagues and friends face hardships has been particularly tough. Regardless of political affiliations, these decisions hold weight, altering career trajectories and affecting mental well-being, both immediately and in the long term.

Receiving a call on Tuesday morning from a client in distress over the repercussions of an executive order was not uncommon for me in 2025. As someone dedicated to aiding others in finding solutions, feeling helpless in such turbulent times has been disheartening. It has led me to question my role and purpose in an industry I have long felt connected to. And I need a connection to survive.

However, a phone call later that day changed my perspective entirely. A long-time client reached out simply to inquire about my well-being, sensing my unspoken struggles. Their empathy and kindness, out of the blue, provided a sense of understanding and support that lifted a weight off my shoulders.

This experience highlighted the power of kindness and empathy in navigating challenges. It reminded me of the importance of supporting one another, especially during our hardest moments. Despite considering myself resilient, the current circumstances have tested me unlike anything before, including overcoming an over 15-year battle with substance use abuse. But they also have reminded me about the significance of human connection and compassion.

Let's remember to extend kindness intentionally to those around us, recognizing that everyone processes situations differently. In times of need, a small gesture of compassion can make a world of difference.

Be intentional in leading with kindness.

Not only do we all need it, but we all have the potential to deliver it as well.

#Kindness #Humanity #Empathy #Connection #Compassion #Community #Joy #Purpose #Resilience #Intentionality

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2025/03/daily-inspiration-giving-back-inte...

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Ambedkar's anti-feudal vision led him to propose nationalization of land. Ambedkar had actively backed the Mumbai textile workers' strike in protest against the British Government's draconian Bill against workers' strikes, asserting that the right to strike was "simply another name for the right to freedom." Ambedkar held that the State's role is to protect workers' nghts. not privileges of private capital, ·Anyone who studies the working of the system of social economy based on private enterprise and pursuit of personal gain will realize how it undermines, if it does not actually violate, the last two premises on which democracy rests... It is true that that where the state refrains from intervention what remains is liberty . ... To whom and for whom is this liberty? Obviously, this liberty is liberty to the landlords to increase rents, to the capitalists to increase the hours of work and reducl~ the rate of wages. ... Liberty from the control ofthe state is another name for the dictatorship of the private employer." What a contrast these words are to the programmes of llberallzatlon-prlvatlzatlon-globallsatlon espoused overtly by the entire spectrum of ruling class parties! .

The fascist, c-,·.steist forces that Babasaheb spent his entire life rlghtJng show up in many ways and forms in JNU and beyond. In our campus, whether it Is the ABVP or the YFE, they represent the same forces of Intolerance, of hatred, of a pathetic and shameful defence of structural inequity In society. On the occasion of Babasaheb's anniversary, the best way to commemorate his memory Is to reiterate our resolve to expose and Isolate such forces and the dangerous politics they represent and Intensify the struggle for social justice and social dignity. .

ABVP-YFE-NSUI Combine's 'Flag Hoisting' to 'Commemorate' Dr. Ambedkar: .

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After indulging in blatant v1olence and lumpenism on campus, disrupting prosrammes and tearing down posters, the ABVP-YFE-NSUI combine (under the garb of 'Students Against Naxalism'} is now trying to find legitimacy by taking the name of Dr Ambedkar! Today, on Ambedkar Jayanti, they announced a flag hoisting ceremony. Do the ABVP and YFE have even a shred of respect either for Ambedkar or the Constitution he drafted or even for the national flag?! Let us have a look at their track record with regard to "reservations·, "Indian constitution and "national flag·: .

What Can be More Absurd: When YFE Arch Opponents of Reservation and Social Justice -Declare .

Respect for Ambedkar! YFE came into existence prectsely to oppose rese:vafuns for the deprived sections. In thetr campaign, they have repeatedly denigrated people from deprived sections using the choicest of abuses like 'undeserving inferior mortals', 'thieves' and 'sub-human beings'. They have consistently opposed the implementation of segally mandated reservations and constitutional provisions to defend social justice -whether it was OBC reservations for students or SC/ST reservations in faculty posts. How come the YFE is suddenly professing a new-found re~r:>ect for Babasaheb Ambedkar? Need we inform these 'meritorious' students that Ambedkar was the MAIN archlte of reservations and rights for dalits and oppressed castes-which they vehemently oppose? -.... .

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teet Dr. Ambedkar? The ABVP today claims respect for the 'father of the lnd1an Constitution': the student commun1ty will remind them that it is the BJP-RSS ideologues who have indulged in the most shameful vilification of Arnbedkar. And as far as the Indian constitution IS concerned the ABVP's Ideological mentor RSS chief Guru Golwalkar wanted the Manusmritl -wtth its appalling Justification of the subjugation and exploitation of dalits and women-to become the Constitution of Independent India! .

When the Constituent Assembly finalised the Constitution, the RSS organ Organizercomplained that the Manusmriti had not been mentioned and honoured in lt. Describing Manu as the first and greatest lawgiver of the world·, it said "But in our Constltu1ion there 1s no mention of the un1gue constitutional development In an~ient Bharat ..To this day, his laws as enunctated 1n the Manusmritt exc1te the admiration of the world and elicit spontaneous obedience and conformi!Y But to our Constttuttonal pundits that means nothtng " (Orgamser, 30 November 1949, p 3) .

Babasaheb spent hts entire life campaigning against the very same 'laws of Manu' that the likes of Golwarkar and Hegdewar tried their best to defend. And today ABVP laughably wants the students of JNU to believe that they 'respect' Dr. Ambedkar and the Indian Constitution. In JNU, during this entire movement to ensure Implementation of reservations. has the student community EVER seen the ABVP mobilise students for reservations and social justice? .

What Do the 'Nationalist' ABVP·BJP-RSS Actually Think of India's National Flag? .

Will these self-styled defenders of 'nationalism' clanfy what was the opinion of thetr chief ideologues on the national tncolour? On the eve of India's Independence, the RSS claimed· ~The word three is in itself an evil and a flag having three colours will certa1nly Qroduce a vert bad DS:icholog1cal effect and is injunous to a countct." (RSS mouthp1ece Organiser, August 14, .

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RSS-BJP-ABVP's hero Savarkar rejected the national flag which the Constituent Assembly of India approved on July .

29, 1947: ·u (the tncolourl can nevg_r Q.g_ recognised as the National Flag_ ofHindu~.than ... the authoritative naa ofHindusthan our Motherland and Hol'f.land, ,., r;_en Q.g_ no otflg_r tflan the Bhag_~va (saffron flag_l.. , Hio.dudQm ~~ ~Q't. m.te caa IO'f.~ll't. §.alute no other Flag_ but this Pan-Hindu Dhwata, this Bhag_ava Flag_ as its naUonal Standaa;f... ·(A G Noorani, Frontline, Volume 21 -Issue 22, Oct. 23-Nov. 05, 2004) .

The ABVP-YFE and their saffron poltttcal masters have always worked to vilify Dr. Ambedkar and demolish his view of a secular egalitarian India enshrined in the Const1tut1on he drafted. Today they lead violent campaigns against reserva-tlons, against conversion, and defend Salwa Judums and Ranveer Senas which perpetrate atrocities against adlvasis and dalits. It is high time that all progressive forces unite and expose the devious attempts of this casteist-communal combine to misuse the name of Dr. Ambedkar In order to hide their sordid history. Such criminal misuse of Dr. Ambedkar's name and legacy should be resolutely thwarted. .

Shephalika President, AISA, JNU Sucheta Gen. Secy, AISA, JNU .

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The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

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confabulations of some groups. Considering that some of the constituents (AISF, DSF) of this 'forum' have had councilors in the current JNUSU, they did not even deem this issue importantenough to be raised in JNUSU Council meetings. Why this sudden and .

belated concern just a couple ofweel<s before the elections?? Why this tremendous keenness for a 'forum' thatexcludes AISA, .

the organization that took a strong anti-LCR stance from the time it was formulated?? Why this desperation to keep out an organization that ensured that the need to resist LCR and the larger concern for 'campus democracy' became issues ofnational importance?? Anyone who has heard their campaign knowsthat it is less against lyngdoh and more against AISA and the AISA-Ied JNUSU. It 1s a campaign which, keeping in sight the upcoming.JNUSU elections, attempts to undermine the struggles and huge .

advances ofthe AISA-led JNUSU in the past year. . . Joint Struggle Committee (JSC) Against Lyngdoh and Mushrooming of Seasonal Sectarian Forums Soon after a stay was imposed on the JNUSU elections in 2008, a JointStruggle Committee (JSC) was formed comprising ofall the :th~ democratic forum of UGBM that the JSC was given the.

organizations opposed to imposition of LCR in JNU: It was thro~g~ .

mandate of launching a political and legal battle agamst LCR and 1n1t1attng a struggle to bring back theJNUSU elections. The aim was to maximize unity in 'anti-Lyngdoh' struggles. It I~ this JSC ~hich was mandat~dby UGBM and remains petitioner in the JNU students' case in the Supreme Court against the imposltron of LCR. In 2012,'it was through another democratically sought mandate ofthe UGBM that the JNUSU elections were reinstated with some relaxations from LCR. Thereafter, some organizations, .

have seasonally floated supposedly 'antl-lyngdoh' forums which have consistentlyfailed to even attempta large scaJe mobilization onan 'anti-Lyngdoh' plank, letalone come up withconstructive suggestions. .

The History of Such Seasonal Formations: In 2012, the so-called 'Struggle Committee Against lyngdoh, Brahminism, .

and Privatisation' was formed. They claimed to be staunchly opposed to elections under Lyngdoh, and yet themselves participated in the March 2012 elections (which were conducted under modified LCR) I The leadership and cadres of DSU ( which was one of .

the constituents ofthatforum, and claimingto boycott elections under LCR), were seen to be actively strategizing and campaigning .

for the candidates of this forum. It is a different matter that the forum's campaign against 'Lyn~doh' ended with 2012 elections, .

and nobody knows whether or not the forum still exists!! In 2013 Sep-Oct, another so-called 'Joint Forum Against Lyngdoh' was formed, again without any public call but only through private negotiations of some organizations including OSF. .

Activities ofthese forums: Apartfrom hopping from one forum to another, what have these various platforms actually done, in terms ofconcrete initiatives against the LCR? The only set of programmes they held in this whole year was organized just before the important Academic Council meeting of October 2013, right in the middle of JNUSU's struggle for an autonomous JNU Press, for .

more democratization of student-teacher relationship, for hostels and enhancement ofthe MCM income cap. Importantly, they NEVER bothered to come up with any constructive suggestions ora roadmap to handle the situation we are faced with in our .

collective struggleagainst Lyngdoh. .

Flowmg logically from the sectarian manner in which itwas formed, the subsequent activities ofthe Forum have only underlined .

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their REAL agenda of mindless anti-AISAism. As the members ofthis forum set out to term the current JNUSU as 'defunct', they .

must answer-Do the collective achievements ofthe student community mean nothing to them or is itthat their blind 'anti-AlSAism' is so centralto their existence,thatthey would rather belittlestudents' collective achievements instead ofacknowledging .

them? Or perhaps, given their 10 month longslumber preceding these 10 days ofpre-election activism, it was but natural that .

both the students' struggles and as well as the achievements thereof, remain unknown to them. In light ofsuch serious memory .

' JNUSU led struggles yielded in the last one year!.

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lapses, may we remind them what the 'defunct.

Struggles, Achievements and Advances in the Past Year .

In the past one year, the JNUSU fought and won a range ofstruggles for a more inclusiveJNU. These include: raising ofincome cap .

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ofthe MCM scholarship from llakh to 2.5 lakh, thus bringing far more needy students under its ambit, reversal ofthe delinking .

of the BA-MA programme ln SLL&CS (EVEN for the existing batches which to~kadmission under the delinked BA programme}; .

setting up an autonomous 'Open Access' model ofJNU Press; opening of the Library and Sports Stadium 24x7; ensuring grade-.

percentage ccnversion, recognition ofthe 'other' option in gender by JNU In admission forms; a Central Placement Web Portal .

has been launched; expansion of dorm facllitles and starting the construction of new hostel, rebuffing the draconian fine raj .

proposed by the DoS; a crucial case is being fought by the JNUSU in the Supreme Court for reduction ofvi~a-weightage in JNU .

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admissions, workers' rights and maternity leave for workers have been fought for; embezzlement ofPF funds of workers was .

Railed. The JNUSU whom they call'non functional', is the same JNUSU that dared to take the corporate-fascist threat posed by .

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Modi head-on by launching an anti-Modi campaign in Banaras, reached out to Muzaffarnagar riot victims and the evicted slum .

dwellers of Mansarover Park with relief and support and got thrashed by police in the anti-FYUP struggle. It has indeed been an .

year ofstruggles and advances that holds immense meaningfor every student who cares forJNU's democratic ethos and inclusive .

character. .

Yet, all these organisations who are today part of the 'Joint Front' shamelessly refused to support JNUSU on several crucial .

occasions. What is the purpose of denigrating these struggles and historic achievements? What is achieved by trivializing the .

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anti Lyngdoh struggle by raising the issue a week before the process for JNUSU polls is to start? .

We appeal to the student community to beware of such irresponsible campaigns, launched clearly with immediate poUtical .

interests of certain organizations in mind. For some irresponsible political groups shpuld oot be allowed to jeopardize the .

holding ofJNUSU poll~, since an elected JNUSU is crucial to carry forward the battle against Lyngdoh Committ~e Recommendations, .

against privatization and saffronization, and for a host of students' and people's rights. .

Shweta Raj, President, AISA, JNU Ashutosh Kumar, Gen. Secy, AISA, JNU .

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The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

From the museum label:

"That hopelessness, that feeling of screaming and not being heard ... it's a common feeling felt by a lot of folks. That's the genesis of where Screaming into the Ether came." -Gary Simmons

Through an erasure process that is central to his painting method, Simmons blurs early 20th-century cartoon illustrations rooted in racist stereotypes, including those by Looney Tunes and Disney. In applying this visual distortion, Simmons evokes the warped misperceptions historically projected onto Black bodies while rejecting early cartoon animators' stereotypical and denigrated representations of Blackness.

Here, Simmons depicts the Looney Toons character Bosko, a caricature based on American minstrelsy who was presented throughout American theaters in the 1930s and beyond. Simmons animates him as a protagonist in the ongoing narrative of racial and social strife. His ghostly figure lingers like the residue of so many racist characters in our collective imagination and memory.

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aisa `Reading Capital' in JNU, Practicing Capitalism in Bengal and Kerala!.

Can CPIM-SFI Sanitise Themselves in the Name of Marx ?.

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Yesterday, SFI organized a `Panel Discussion' in JNU.

on `Reading Capital Today'. Several decades after it was Pearls of Wisdom from CPI(M) OR Whatever.

They Have Learnt By Reading Marx.

first published, Marx's Capital continues to remain rele-.

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vant. This magnum opus represented a significant rupture Defending Land Grab Through Brute Force.

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in contemporary understanding of human societies, and Ø "The work of the police is not to make drawings.

still provides fundamental insights. Any attempt therefore or teach in schools and colleges. The police are the.

to encourage a reading of the Capital is welcome. instrument of repression. It is for the government.

to decide whom they shall repress...Some forces.

It is most unfortunate however that the organizers are trying to indulge in violence and create dis-.

of this so-called `discussion' on reading Capital did not order for lowly and narrow political interest and.

even invite the audience to ask questions! This is probably bring ruination to West Bengal. It is democracy.

the first time in JNU that a `discussion' was organised, and.

students were DISALLOWED to participate and express.

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their views on the issues raised by the speakers. Debate, to repress these forces in the interests and secu-.

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discussion and dissent are after all in the best of JNU's rity of the people of the state." - Benoy Konar,.

intellectual and democratic traditions. And shockingly, CPI(M) Kisan Sabha leader, People's Democracy,.

many of AISA's posters put up last night exposing SFI- 10 December 2006.

CPI(M)'s hypocrisy and double speak were torn off.

last night itself! Such an attitude is detrimental to JNU's Ø "With the summer approaching, many snakes.

democratic ethos, and is simply not acceptable. come out of their holes; you must take the Red.

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We hope SFI and CPI(M) will agree that it is not merely flag (lal jhanda) off from the sticks (danda).

sufficient to "read" Capital, but also to operationalise the and use the sticks to crush the snakes' heads" -.

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ideology embedded in the Capital. We reproduce below CPI(M) Central Committee Member Suryakanta.

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excerpts from Part VIII of Volume I of the Capital: Mishra, referring to the protestors at Singur and.

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"In the history of primitive accumulation, all revo- Nandigram.

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lutions are epoch-making that act as levers for the Ø "When Medha Patkar visits here next, we'll ask.

capital class in course of formation; but, above all, our women cadres to show her their backsides".

those moments when great masses of men are CPI(M) Central Committee Member Benoy Konar.

suddenly and forcibly torn from their means of in Bardhaman (Anandabazar Patrika, January 30,.

subsistence, and hurled as free and "unattached" 2007).

proletarians on the labour-market. The expropri-.

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ation of the agricultural producer, of the peasant, Wooing Capitalists, Denigrating Working Class.

from the soil, is the basis of the whole process..

The history of this expropriation, in different coun- Ø "My government is practicing capitalist politics. I.

tries, assumes different aspects, and runs through have to make friends with industrialists, as I want.

its various phases .......... at different periods. And investment." West Bengal chief minister Bud-.

the history of this, their expropriation, is written dhadeb Bhattacharya.

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in the annals of mankind in letters of blood and Ø "Bengal is hungry for FDI in food and farms".

fire." (emphasis ours) Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, announcing a Rs 1000.

crore plan for a mega food park and cold chainsl.

Many of the speakers yesterday talked of Marx's.

analysis of primitive accumulation of capital. All over the Ø "We should allow big retail companies like.

country, almost all the bourgeois ruling parties are acting Spencers, Reliance and Wal-Mart in agro-re-.

as `levers for the capital class', perpetrating this process of tailing business." Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, at.

primitive accumulation of displacing peasantry and robbing.

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them of their means of livelihood. We don't except them the CII meeting held in Kolkata on September 17,.

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to act otherwise. 2007.

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But what should we expect from those who claim Ø "I am not practicing socialism. I am practicing.

themselves to be `Marxists'? Do the SFI and the CPI(M) capitalism."- Buddhadeb Bhattacharya.

expect us to forget Singur and Nandigram? Can we.

forget that in Singur the young dalit girl Tapasi Malik Ø "We are trying to change the mindset of work-.

was brutally raped and burnt alive by CPI(M) cadres ers. We need FDI, we need infrastructure."- Bud-.

for participating in the anti-land grab struggle? That dhadeb Bhattacharya.

Rajkumar Bhul was killed for being part of the agita-.

P.T.O..

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