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No, this is not in response to a clarion call given by some Masters-holder in entire political science garrulous supremo that these men and women had gathered in large numbers to bang away their utensils. They are from the Sunderbans, and have lost everything they had, as the cyclone #Amphan in its wake razed their ramshackle homes - actually in most of the cases, very modest thatched huts, to the ground, and left vast tracts of arable land inundated, turning them uncultivable for years to come because the water - as you all know - gushing in in surges on that fateful day from the nearby Bay of Bengal was brackish. Now these people are left with no means of livelihood. Many of their menfolk who are away in other states working as migrant labourers are yet to return home, because of a very shoddy, unplanned lockdown. These people are now somehow surviving on whatever some NGOs, and particularly eminent Left social activists like Kanti Ganguly could arrange for them by way of a temporary relief, through crowd-funding. But this cannot really bring about a long term solution to the problem unless or until the government steps in. So now, with hunger stalking and a very painful death staring them in the face, they have taken to the streets with dishes in their hands. As the last resort. None in the authority has so far bothered to hear them out. The less said about their plight, the better.😢 *Yesterday, in front of the Mathurapur Block (No.2) Development Officer's office. https://www.instagram.com/p/CAuh-N3gb_S/?igshid=1ha4s25ebwa4r

#amphan

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre took place on this day, April 13, 1919. Innocent, Peaceful, and non-violent pilgrims were indiscriminately fired upon under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer. The civilians had assembled to participate in the annual Baisakhi celebrations—both a religious and cultural festival for the Punjabis. Coming from outside the city, they may have been unaware of the martial law that had been imposed. British Police fired non stop for more than 10 minutes, and it is said over 1600 rounds were fired. Over 1000 were killed, although, the British claim only 379 died in the firing.

An artist's perception of feminine revenge, and revolt against a society that would rather violate, mutilate and kill its women for lust, and for domination, than to accord them their due in terms of their worth, honour and recognition. Hope, this does soon translate into a reality.

NEVER FORGET, NEVER FORGIVE! Since the time the news broke, I've been fighting my tears. How the innocence writ large on the little face wrings my heart! She could very well have been my daughter!😢

#APPEAL from Presidency University, Kolkata students for a CITIZENS' PROTEST in front of College Street #CoffeeHouse. TODAY @ 4PM. Whoever is concerned about shrinking democratic space & trampling of democratic rights is requested to show up in solidarity.

#coffeehouse #appeal

Today the top 1% of India owns half of the country’s wealth. The benefits of India’s growth of the past one and half decade have been largely appropriated by this small group. The conditions of the bottom half of the population have seen little improvement. Illiteracy, hunger and #malnourishment in India has hardly changed, with India doing worse than less developed countries (LDCs) in many of the critical poverty indicators. The policies that benefit the rich - tax cuts for profits of companies, customs duty exemptions on gold and jewelry - continue. Successive governments are more interested in making policies that enrich the top 1% at the expense of the welfare of majority of the Indians.

#malnourishment #illiteracy #hunger

The ban on the Islamic burkini, or full-body swimsuit, on the beaches of the French Riviera has triggered heated debates and controversies. For some, it is a ban on freedom of choice; for others, t…

All people, including non-burkini Muslim women, should have freedom of choice. Muslim women who opt to wear ordinary swimming costumes only want to enjoy the simple pleasure of feeling the sea waves caressing their skin and touching their hair, without external judgment of their morals or religious beliefs. Once the concept of equality and diversity is accepted in Muslim countries, it will empower Muslims to defend the burkini in Western countries. Let’s be frank: prejudice in this context originated within the Muslim communities, and will never be solved until Muslims truly embrace freedom for all, and not just for burkini-wearing women.

#Burkini

At an informal meet of the Green Crusaders executive. June 24, 2016. Friday. (at College Street)

One doesn't really need to go that far to seek a proof, or to establish the veracity of this Snowden quote. Just ask Mr. Mathew Samuel, and he'd tell you what's what. 😀😁😃

Fight global warming. Help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. #GreenCrusaders (at GREEN CRUSADERS)

#greencrusaders

Because our GREEN CRUSADERS Vice President @amitray1601 wanted to make this momentous #ChatOverCoffee something like memorable. 😀😁 (at Indian Coffe House)

#chatovercoffee

The horror of the Orlando massacre has become something we are too familiar with: people gunned down mercilessly by deranged, violent misfits. GREEN CRUSADERS expresses its heartfelt sympathies to the families & friends of those killed & injured & to those in the LGBT community who must feel very threatened by this event. This isn't the time to express outrage at how the massacre in Orlando is being used against Muslims & to justify US intervention in Iraq & Syria. But the culture of violence in the US derives from its culture of militarism & these shootouts will not end until the country has ended that cause. [Text (slightly edited): Mary Scully ■ Photo: Indira Krishnamurti Pradhan]

SAVE THE PLANET. SAVE OUR HABITAT FOR THE POSTERITY. Join GREEN CRUSADERS, the socio-ecological awareness mission. ■ Contact> [email protected] Phone: 94333 09099 / 98310 79708 (at GREEN CRUSADERS)

■ Save the #girl_child. (at Greece)

#girl_child

Goodness! Sure. Aren't we really "neo-liberal" slaves? Just that we can fake life when there is none. (at Ultadanga, Kolkata, the City of Joy.)

An interesting part of our shared history. A 1958 film from Pakistan which has now seen the light of day. 'Jago Hua Savera' - with script, diaolgue and lyrics by Faiz - and Indian artistes, was banned at the time. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36417007 (at GREEN CRUSADERS)

●This is what the late veteran Indian thespian Utpal Dutt had once wrote about #MuhammadAli> ■ "[The Myth of the Boxer was] created by the bourgeois selling machine mainly for profits, and used brilliantly by Odets in Golden Boy and in The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler. Here is a modern myth artificially created and boosted by the bourgeois himself and not only for profit. The mindless aggression of the pugilist is a fulfilment of the bourgeois concept of the useful citizen and faithful soldier. Theirs not to question why. It is part of the imperialist dream of world domination, where the boxer, whose ability to think has been beaten out of him, eulogized by every medium in the country, splashed across front pages on the breakfast table, studied and analysed in slow motion on the TV in the evening, a monster without faculty of thought, follows his promoter and his agent like the Light Brigade in Crimea. He becomes in a way a repetition of the Frankenstein myth of Mary Shelley, when Johnson and Joe Louis after him, loom in their black violence over their white creators, frightening their wits out of them. The boxing ring has become for the black proletariat a battlefield against white racialists, and therefore the myth now belongs to the people of the world. The mindless boxer of the white promoter has begun to think coherently and logically, typified in Mohammad Ali's refusal to fight Vietnam, the complete defeat of the original purpose of the boxing business and the glare of bourgeois publicity. So Odets and Sackler's use of the myth becomes a perfectly relevant proletarian saga, where the ring and its problems of injured flesh and flattened nose and blood become, gradually, the wilderness of class struggle itself." (at GREEN CRUSADERS)

#muhammadali

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