Podcasts about naxalite

In this episode of Bharatvaarta Weekly, Roshan Cariappa and Abhishek Paul discuss a range of topics including the start of the Indian election, the largest electoral exercise globally, with insights on the turnout and technology's role. They delve into geopolitical tensions between Israel and Iran, highlighting recent retaliatory missile strikes and the global call for de-escalation. The episode also covers a significant anti-Naxalite operation in Chhattisgarh, marking a continued effort against Maoist insurgents. Furthermore, discussions include India's defense sector milestone with the export of BrahMos missiles to the Philippines, enhancing its strategic position in Asia Pacific.  Topics:00:00 Election Fever Hits India00:29 Geopolitical Tensions: Israel Strikes Back at Iran05:45 The Naxalite Challenge: Security Forces' Success in Chhattisgarh08:46 India's Electoral Process Begins: Phase One Analysis12:25 India's Defense Milestone: Exporting BrahMos Missiles to the Philippines15:43 IPL Highlights: Standout Performances and Team Updates18:46 Wrapping Up

Bablu Patil began his cricketing journey way back in 2004 at 19. However, he knew cricket could not be his only source of livelihood and joined the Maharashtra Police in 2006. However, his love for sports saw him participate in various tournaments as a sprinter with the police force. As part of the State Reserve Police Force (SRPF), he often had to visit the Naxalite area of Maharashtra -Gadchiroli. Even in that remote area, he organised cricket tournaments for locals. However, his loyalty is to his uniform and not a cricket jersey. Cricket takes a backseat when he is called upon by the State. To live by that principle, he had to miss out on opportunities to play cricket abroad. But he has no regrets. He has seen tennis-ball cricket evolve in the past 20 years. Bablu shares his incredible journey of balancing ‘duty and cricket' on Kattyawarchya Gappa with Amol Gokhale… बबलू पाटील २००४ साली १९व्या वर्षी पहिल्यांदा स्पर्धात्मक टेनिस-बॉल क्रिकेट खेळले आणि तिथून त्यांच्या क्रिकेटच्या प्रवासाला सुरुवात झाली. केवळ क्रिकेटवर घर चालणार नाही ह्याची जाणीव असल्याने २००६मध्ये पोलीस भरतीची परीक्षा देऊन ते महाराष्ट्र पोलीस दलात सामील झाले. आजघडीला मुंबईतल्या ताडदेव पोलीस स्टेशनला ते नियुक्त आहेत. पण राज्य राखीव पोलीस दलाचा (SRPF) भाग असल्याने अनेकदा गडचिरोलीतल्या नक्षलवादी भागात देखील त्यांना ड्युटीवर जावं लागलं आहे. पोलीस दलात देखील त्यांनी खेळाबरोबर जवळीक सोडली नाही आणि विविध ठिकाणी ड्युटी सांभाळून क्रिकेट खेळत राहिले. इतकंच काय तर नक्षलवादी भागातदेखील त्यांनी स्थानिकांसाठी क्रिकेटच्या स्पर्धेचं आयोजन केलं. असं जरी असलं तरी त्यांना त्यांच्या कर्तव्याची पूर्ण जाणीव आहे. 'आधी वर्दी, मग क्रिकेट!' हे तत्व ते कायम पाळत आले आहेत आणि त्यापायी त्यांनी भारताबाहेर क्रिकेट खेळायच्या संधीवर अनेकदा पाणी सोडलं. पण त्याची त्यांना खंत नाही. त्यांच्या २० वर्षाच्या प्रवासात त्यांनी टेनिस-बॉल क्रिकेट आमूलाग्र बदलताना बघितलं आहे. बबलू पाटीलांनी त्यांच्या ह्या विलक्षण प्रवासाबद्दल दिलखुलास गप्पा मारल्या आहेत अमोल गोखले बरोबर..

Find out what it was like growing up in post-independence India through the eyes of a man who lived through it all!Join Michelle as she speaks with Bhaskar Roy, author of 'Fifty Year Road', a personal memoir like no other. Bhaskar talks about growing up during the Naxalbari uprising - the armed peasant revolt of 1967 in West Bengal. He shares his earliest memories of witnessing the violence of the Naxalite movement, stories of his parents and their activism, and risky assignments that he's covered during his days as a journalist, including watching a car blow up in front of his eyes!In this exciting partnership series with Jaico Publishing House, we are featuring fascinating new authors every month, writers that captivate the audience and bring forth a revolutionary perspective to Indian literature.Tune in for a never-before-seen view of India's history!Books and authors mentioned in this episode:One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García MárquezSons and Lovers - D.H. LawrenceMovies mentioned in this episode:The Calcutta Trilogy - Mrinal Sen (Director)‘Books and Beyond with Bound' is the podcast where Tara Khandelwal and Michelle D'costa uncover how their books reflect the realities of our lives and society today. Find out what drives India's finest authors: from personal experiences to jugaad research methods, insecurities to publishing journeys. Created by Bound, a storytelling company that helps you grow through stories. Follow us @boundindia on all social media platforms.

Along with Revanth, 11 senior Congress legislators were also sworn in as ministers by Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan. Four of them were associated with KCR before.

The Indian state has long witnessed separatism, often backed by militancy, in various regions across the country. We have had periods of militancy in Punjab, the North Eastern states, and Jammu Kashmir as well as Naxalite movements in Central India. In this episode of Police Chowki, Javeed Ahmad (ex-IPS and DGP of the State of Uttar Pradesh) speaks to Shrikrishna Upadhyaya regarding the unique challenges of policing in conflict zones, tactics employed by police forces, civilian counterinsurgency forces, and more. Do check out Takshashila's public policy courses: https://school.takshashila.org.in/courses We are @‌IVMPodcasts on Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram. https://twitter.com/IVMPodcasts https://www.instagram.com/ivmpodcasts/?hl=en https://www.facebook.com/ivmpodcasts/ You can check out our website at https://shows.ivmpodcasts.com/featured Follow the show across platforms: Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, JioSaavn, Gaana, Amazon Music Do share the word with your folksSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two recent events have thrust India's security into the spotlight, raising important inquiries. The first incident involved a Naxal attack that claimed the lives of ten District Reserve Guard (DRG) personnel and their driver in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada. Meanwhile, in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, a terrorist assault orchestrated by seven individuals from Pakistani nationalist groups resulted in the deaths of five Army jawans. These incidents compel us to examine India's security challenges comprehensively. Drawing from his experience in Naxalite-prone Sukma, Chhattisgarh, Abhishek Bhalla highlights the gravity of the situation, stating that it surpasses the perils of Kashmir. The discussion between Abhishek and host Dev Goswami further explores Pakistani terrorism, the Line of Control (LOC), the Kashmir situation, and China's involvement. The timing of these attacks, ahead of the SCO meeting chaired by India, where Pakistan and China will participate, raises significant concerns. Furthermore, the impact of such attacks on the reiteration of the ceasefire at the LOC is a topic of examination. With the Pakistan Foreign Ministry suggesting the potential for an all-out war with India, Abhishek cautions against disregarding the ceasefire if even the slightest possibility holds true. Join us for valuable insights into the pressing security issues facing India.

From her Covid relief work to Bharat Jodo, tribal leader Danasari Anasuya alias Seethakka has brought much-needed good press for Congress, which has only 5 MLAs in Telangana.----more----Read the article here: https://theprint.in/politics/from-naxalite-to-lawyer-to-mla-now-with-phd-meet-seethakka-congress-phenomenon-in-telangana/1183212/

Pash or Paash (ਅਵਤਾਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਪਾਸ਼; September 9, 1950 – March 23, 1988) was the pen name of Avtar Singh Sandhu,[1] one of the major poets of the Naxalite movement in the Punjabi literature of the 1970s. He was killed by Khalistani terrorists on March 23, 1988.[2] His strongly left-wing views were reflected in his poetry.

In Episode 137 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg explores two of the many under-reported internal conflicts in India, which are rooted in unresolved issues left over from the colonial era in spite of 75 years of Indian independence. In the east-central interior, the Naxalite insurgency has been met with harsh repression from the security forces—especially against the Adivasis, or indigenous peoples who make up the movement's support base. In the remote Northeast, the long struggle of the Naga people is still met with massacres at the hands of the military today. For three generations the Naga have been fighting for their independence, keeping alive their indigenous culture, and protesting the genocide of their people—to the silence of the international community. Listen on SoundCloud or via Patreon. www.patreon.com/countervortex Production by Chris Rywalt We ask listeners to donate just $1 per weekly podcast via Patreon—or $2 for our special offer! We now have 45 subscribers. If you appreciate our work, please become Number 46!

Welcome to OTTplay Sizzling Samachar of the day , I'm your host NikhilNews first up,Telugu theatrical releases postpone dates due to Covid The highly anticipated Telugu remake of Malayalam film Ayyappanum Koshyum titled Bheemla Nayak will release either on the 25th of February or the 1st of April. The film, starring Pawan Kalyan and Rana Daggubati in the lead, will not premiere on OTT as the filmmakers believe that it should be a theatrical experience.Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi's next film Acharya has postponed its release from February 4 to an April 29 release window. Directed by Koratala Siva, the action drama revolves around a former Naxalite who fights against the various injustices in society, and also stars Kajal Aggarwal and Pooja Hegde in leading roles. Sarkaru Vaari Paata, Mahesh Babu's upcoming family action entertainer, has also postponed its release date to May 12. Keerthy Suresh will play an important character in the film directed by Parasuram. David Hayter to helm American McGee's Alice TV adaptation David Hayter, who has written screenplays for hit films such as X-Men, X-Men 2, and Watchmen, has been signed on to be the showrunner for a TV adaptation of EA's hit video game franchise American McGee's Alice. Loosely based on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the reimagined action-adventure is not Hayter's first involvement in video game franchises. He has earned cult status for voicing the iconic Solid Snake in Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid franchise. Dungeons & Dragons to be directed by Red Notice filmmakerEntertainment One's Dungeons & Dragons series will be helmed by Red Notice's writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber. The popular role playing television game will be backed by Hasbro-owned eOne and Paramount Pictures. Thurber is set to write, direct and executive produce a pilot episode for the series. The Outrun to feature Saoirse RonanSaoirse Ronan has been cast as the lead in The Outrun, a film focusing on alcoholism and human's bond with nature. Written by Amy Liptrot, the film will be helmed by The Unforgivable director Nora Fingscheidt. Ronan will play Rona in The Outrun, a woman grappling with alcoholism and just released from rehab. She returns to her hometown in Scorland's wild Orkney Islands after 10 years and somehow reconnects with the place that she grew up in. Raj and DK's new Netflix series titled Guns & GulaabsA new Netflix series has been greenlit by filmmakers Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. titled Guns & Gulaabs. This is going to be the director duo's second collaboration with the streaming giant after last year's Telugu movie Cinema Bandi. Guns & Gulaabs, the filmmakers' state, blends aspects of crime thrillers and 90s romance dramas, to present a story about the “misfits of the world.” Other than Guns & Gulaabs, Raj and DK are also teaming up with Shahid Kapoor for an Amazon Prime Video untitled thriller. The Fall of the House of Usher begins productionMike Flanagan has kickstarted the production of his upcoming Netflix project titled The Fall of the House of Usher, the director announced on Twitter. The series has also added a new cast member, House of Cards and Scream: The TV Series actor Willa Fitzgerald. Among the others who are part of the cast are Mary McDonnell, Frank Langella, Mark Hamill, Carl Lumbly, and Kate Siegel. This is the fifth time Flanagan is teaming up with Netflix after the successes of The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass. Well that's the OTTplay Sizzling Samachar of the day, I shall be back again with more news from the world of movies and entertainment. Until then it's your host Nikhil signing out.Aaj Kya dekhoge OTTplay se poocho

Did Pratap Bhanu Mehta jump from Ashoka University? Or was he pushed? This seems to be the Hamlet-esque “to-be-or-not-to-be” question of the day in the Indian media. The simple answer is that it is very good if he was pushed. And it’s even better if he jumped.That of course needs an explanation. The push option is if the Government of India made an offer to the trustees of Ashoka that they couldn’t refuse: get rid of the fellow, or else! That, of course, would be Godfather-esque, and it would mark a welcome change from the pusillanimity that India has traditionally exhibited. Soft States don’t work, which should have been abundantly clear to us all along.If it wasn’t clear, the antics of Xi Jinping’s minions in Alaska just a few days ago should have been enough to convince the most obtuse among us. They calculate that Biden is soft (we can speculate as to why they are so confident about that), so they humiliated the US side as is their wolf-warrior habit. Xi is broadcasting loudly that Biden’s US is a Soft State and that he pwns Biden. Whether this is true remains to be seen, but it is a good opening gambit.India has been the ultimate Soft State, mouthing meaningless platitudes and cringe-inducing homilies while spectators roll their eyes and silently pray: “Just kill me now!”. Hark back to V K Krishna Menon delivering marathon lectures at the UN General Assembly or J Nehru turning down the offer of the Security Council Seat “because China deserves it more”. (By the way, I can quote chapter and verse: no, it is not an urban myth).So if there is — finally — a change of heart, and India does stand up for its interests, then it would be welcome news. Doing tejovadham to undesirables is part of what governments are supposed to do. This was visible in the case of yesterday’s cause celebre as well, the mop-haired Disha Ravi. The fact that she was arrested is important. She herself is unimportant, but it sends a message to other wannabe Urban Naxals: “Your ass is on the line, kid!”, pardon the French.For a long time, secessionists have labored under the illusion that they were immune to the power of the State. They have seen overground and underground purveyors of sedition treated with kid gloves, and they got used to thinking that this is the natural order of things. Not quite. They should look up Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Julian Assange, and Edward Snowden. The human rights of outlaws or insurgents or their middle-class supporters are not — and they cannot be — greater than those of the average, law-abiding citizen. That is an axiom, and all the billions of the Open Society Foundation and #DeepState are not going to change that very easily. The alternative in Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s case, the jump option, is even better because it means he had no option but to fall on the sword. In other words, the Government didn’t do anything, but out of enlightened self-interest, the trustees of Ashoka informed him that he should resign, or else they would have to fire him: Because he was causing real damage to the Ashoka brand. Of course, Mehta has friends, powerful and shadowy friends. Within 24 hours, there was a letter written by 150 professors from “Harvard, MIT, Yale, Columbia, Oxford, Cambridge” and so on, in his support. Commendably swift. The Ecosystem has its act together to protect its own. The letter also means… exactly nothing. It is precisely like the letter signed by 22 (or was it 35?) Nobel laureates supporting a Naxalite doctor some years ago. I would wager that none of these worthies could even spell that man’s name, or pick him out in a police lineup of suspects. They just blindly signed a piece of paper somebody put in front of their noses. There was also the petition signed by 47.5 “ancient India scholars” some years ago regarding the Aryan Invasion Mythology and related stories in the California Textbook Case. I wrote an unpublished piece then where I pointed out that these alleged “scholars” included people who can’t read Sanskrit or Tamil, urban planners, astrophysicists, economists, sociologists, linguists in unrelated languages, deconstructionists, etc. The one person who had the requisite background in both ancient history and languages retracted her support.In other words, these letters are part of a “toolkit”, a term immortalized by Disha Ravi in her 15 minutes of fame. The same worthies crying about Mehta’s “freedom of expression” or whatever chose to ignore the fact that a young, brown, foreign, racial/religious minority Hindu woman, Rashmi Samant, was cyber-bullied, trolled, terrorized, and forced to resign from her post as elected president of the Oxford Student Union, just days ago. Why? That was a rhetorical question. We know the answer. The same worthies have also ignored a vile campaign by a foul-mouthed assistant professor at Rutgers University to demonize a small racial and religious minority, Hindus, mostly Asian Americans. Tulsi Gabbard, a Hindu though not Asian (she’s a Pacific Islander), has been attacked directly for her faith. Although the hate campaign against her was utterly horrifying, not a single academic bothered to condemn it. Here is an actual campaign poster against Gabbard. (Hat tip to Sheenie Ambardar for this).No, none of this bothers the 150 letter writers. That means they have no moral leg to stand on: they are hypocrites. But they make it sound like Mehta was subjected to something akin to what Hypatia, the foremost woman scholar of her time, and a philosopher and mathematician of repute, experienced in Rome around 300CE. They dragged her out of her chariot and into a church, stripped her naked, gouged out her eyeballs while she was still alive, slashed her to pieces with broken tiles, then cut her body up, dragged the pieces through the streets, and burned them: all because newly-ascendant Christians hated pagans. In fact, it was Rashmi Sawant who was treated a bit like Hypatia, not Pratap Bhanu Mehta; and explicitly for the same reason: she is a Hindu. Abrahamics have a serious problem with Hindus and others of the Old Religions. As described in the fascinating book The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World, majoritarian rule by Christians meant the total destruction of the old Roman religion around 400-500 CE.Majoritarian rule by Abrahamics almost inevitably means religious minorities are oppressed, and frequently they are wiped out, exterminated. So there is good reason to fear majoritarian Abrahamic rule, as freedoms will be curtailed.However, by sleight of hand, this Abrahamic technique is ascribed to Hindus, and the likes of Mehta talk up a storm about ‘fascistic’, ‘majoritarian Hindu nationalist’ rule! This sells well to the Deep State and Christian fundamentalists and regime-change enthusiasts in the West, but is entirely without basis. It is a gigantic fraud that ordinary Indians have also been gaslighted into. Hindu rule is demonstrably benign and liberal. Look at the classical Chanakya niti: he advocates sama, dana, bheda and only when other avenues are explored and fruitless, danda. The Pandavas give the Kauravas innumerable opportunities to negotiate a settlement without bloodshed, even willing to accept merely five villages for themselves, while the empire went to the Kauravas.Then there’s the Sisupala story, where Lord Krishna forgives 99 transgressions before slaying him. And look at India today. It may have a large numerical majority of Hindus, but it is a Minoritarian State, as interpreted by the Executive and Judiciary and enshrined in the Constitution. Religious minorities get all sorts of privileges not available to Hindus, most distressingly the fact that Hindu temples are captured by the State. Just two days ago, government bureaucrats were selling off 35,000 acres of land belonging to the Lord Jagannath temple. The vast holdings of churches (the #2 land-owner in the country, after the government), much of it expired 99-year-leases that they squat on illegally as though they were land grants, are never touched. Waqf properties, that is Muslim community properties, are also left alone.There are special provisions for all sorts of things for minorities. Kerala’s government has posted employment advertisements that are reserved for converts to Christianity! There are schemes to pay Muslim priests salaries and Christian priests pensions and to greatly subsidize Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and Christian pilgrimage to Jerusalem, while Hindus have to pay for their pilgrimages out of their own pockets. And the Modi government, accused of ‘majoritarianism’ has itself rolled out goodies like scholarship schemes, even entire universities and schemes for women, explicitly for non-Hindus! In other words, extreme liberalism is being painted as fascism! How very predictable! How very Orwellian!All the breast-beating by Mehta and friends about ‘majoritarianism’ boils down to a concern that Hindus will get equality. That’s right: any attempt by Hindus to merely demand equality under the law is treated as ‘fascism’. This is the kind of extreme rhetoric that the malcontents in India espouse.For instance, they made a godawful fuss about the badly-named Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which merely provides non-Muslim minorities being genocided in Pakistan and Afghanistan fast-track access to Indian citizenship. This was portrayed as a grave offense: why? Because the Pak and Afghan Muslims doing the genocide would not gain Indian citizenship! That is utterly absurd!The genocide is not theoretical, either. Just two days ago, there was news of Ajay Lalwani, a Hindu journalist in Pakistan, being shot dead by a gunman. His crime: he had reported on how underage Hindu girls in Pakistan suffer regular kidnap, rape, conversion to Islam, and forced marriage to Muslims. This happens on average to three teenage girls a day, every day. That is explicit Abrahamic majoritarianism. And that is precisely why CAA is an utterly liberal law, protecting the victims of religious apartheid and genocide. Nevertheless, here is Pratap Bhanu Mehta fulminating against the CAA, passed into law by the elected Indian parliament, and suggesting in so many words that the way to challenge it was not to use the Judiciary, but to riot in the streets. But we should recognise that this direction is not going to be set through the nice formalisms of law, or the contrived conventions we can adhere to in normal times. The direction is going to be set by the mob, by brute power, by mobilisation.This is outrageous. Some might call it seditious. If there were McCarthyites in India, they would nail Mehta. There aren’t, so he gets cushy sinecures, while spearheading a reverse-McCarthyite movement to blackball anybody who is not part of his cohort’s Big Brother thought control!What explains this strange power Mehta has to keep an entire country in thrall to his views? It couldn’t possibly be his regular op-eds in the Indian Express. I have been surprised by the drivel he churns out. It is verbose and prolix, full of the turgid and impenetrable vocabulary of the cultural Marxist. He writes 3,000-word essays that say… exactly nothing. That is, of course, when he’s not inciting people to riot, as above. On second thoughts, maybe it is better that he not use many verbs, unlike this famous Doonesbury strip from 1980 lampooning Ted Kennedy.Pratap Bhanu Mehta remains an enigma; nay, a mystery wrapped in a conundrum. What is the source of his influence? How does he regularly end up in prestigious positions for which he may or may not be qualified or competent? Is he an outstanding scholar who has produced great work? Why is he the darling of the Ecosystem? The blurb on Mehta says this:His areas of research include political theory, constitutional law, society and politics in India, governance and political economy, and international affairs.Not being in that business, I have no idea what his contribution is. I used to think he must be a globally-renowned scholar. But so far as I can tell, he has not done any path-breaking, seminal work. The only awards on his blurb are from India. So why is there such a fuss about him from Anglosphere friends? Mehta sounds rather like Yogendra Yadav, who is famous only for being famous. It would also be interesting to see if any of those worthies from Columbia, Yale, Harvard, MIT, Oxford, etc. actually invites Mehta to a position in their home institutions. Somehow I doubt that, because they have their own bailiwicks to protect, and anyway he’s probably more useful to them if he is in India. But it is not unknown for washed-up Ecosystem journalists (I can name at least two) to be given cushy slots in the Deep State newspapers of the West. There was also a journalist who said she was an Associate Professor at Harvard, until it crashed and burned and she made (hard to believe) excuses about mail fraud. So I for one would not be surprised if Mehta were to turn up at some university that is friendly to the Deep State and Atlanticism. Don’t cry for Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Argentina. Or Lutyens, or Khan Market. I am pretty sure he’ll pop up somewhere, being hailed as the new Solzhenitsyn. The real Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, poor guy, will turn over in his grave. POSTSCRIPT: Gurcharan Das confirms that Mehta jumped, and was not pushed. Somehow that is a little disappointing. So we are still a Soft State? Sigh. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/a-tale-of-two-heroes-tragedy-at-ashoka-university-shows-the-difficulty-of-doing-good-in-todays-world/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com

Emergency background and Naxalite movement for class 12

Satyajit Ray's Pratidwandi starring Dhritiman Chatterjee, the first of his Calcutta Trilogy, released in October 1970. K Balachander's Varumayin Niram Sivappu released almost exactly ten years later, in November 1980, and starred Kamal Haasan and Sridevi. The two films bookend an important decade in Indian history. Pratidwandi came at the height of the Naxalite movement in West Bengal and Varumayin Niram Sivappu was made in the immediate aftermath of Emergency and the Lok Sabha elections of 1980. A tumultuous decade for India, Congress and Indira Gandhi, possibly casting a long shadow in the political landscape of today. Deepauk and Aditya are joined in this episode by Sohini Chattopadhyay, an award winning independent journalist from Kolkata with bylines in New York Times, Al Jazeera, Mint, The Hindu and SCMP among others. Listen on. Some of Sohini's work in the context of the topics discussed in the podcast: Why Don't These Girls Work? Women and work in recent Hindi film https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/gW0RmkMUb27QUducQZaLIL/Why-dont-these-girls-work.html Work and recent Hind film https://www.livemint.com/news/india/full-time-romantics-in-a-nation-of-job-seekers-1549567469480.html Housework and women in Bengali film and Hindi film: https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/two-bengali-films-delve-into-the-emotional-cost-of-women-s-housework-like-no-hindi-film-has_in_5f5d1b9cc5b67602f605fa06 Looking at Work in Panga and Chhapaak: https://www.filmcompanion.in/features/bollywood-features/panga-and-chhapaak-what-happens-when-women-tell-womens-stories/

V and Rea join Breht to discuss the Naxalite movement in India, the context in which the Naxalites arose, the reaction to them by the Indian state and Indian fascists, the role imperialism plays in the conflict, and much more!  For sources, links, or further recommendations, please feel free to reach out to Rea on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/a_busy_woman Outro Music: 'Curtain Call' by Ruby Ibarra LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO: www.revolutionaryleftradio.com

1)Aranyakam is a 1988 Malayalam film, directed by Hariharan, written by M. T. Vasudevan Nair and starring Saleema, Devan and Vineeth.The film was produced by B. Sasikumar.The music was composed by Raghunath Seth, with lyrics by O. N. V. Kurup and vocals by K. J. Yesudas and K. S. Chitra.It is about a teenage girl named Ammini who likes to visit forests and has a hobby of writing imaginary letters to famous people. Actress Saleema memorably portrays Ammini. She remains one of the few quirky female characters in Malayalam cinema till date. Ammini, who belongs to the family of feudal lords, meets Devan, who inspires and believes in her. But her life turns upside down when Ammini learns that Devan is a Naxalite wanting to kill her uncle. 2)Ennu Swantham Janakikutty is a 1998 Malayalam movie, written by M. T. Vasudevan Nair and directed by Hariharan. The movie features debutant Jomol in the lead role. The film is based on a story written by M. T. Vasudevan Nair named Cheriya Cheriya Bhookambangal. Janakikutty, who is ignored by her family, once gets confronted with the vision of a murdered lady. They become friends. By the power of that spirit, Janaki's uncaring family suffers many mishaps. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tentpodcasts/support

Dr. Happymon Jacob speaks with Niranjan Sahoo [Author of two books: Politics of Power Sector Reforms in India, Pentagon Press, 2007 and Reservation Policy and its Implementation across Domains in India: An Analytical Review, Academic Foundation, 2009] about Maoist Insurgency in India with reference to his recently published paper titled “Half a Century of India’s Maoist Insurgency: An Appraisal of State Response.” Mr. Sahoo provides a historical overview of the Naxalite movement and speaks about major course of events that posited it as the “single-biggest threat” to Indian State by the mid-2000s. He speaks about the Indian state’s counterinsurgency approach. Mr. Sahoo also addresses controversies regarding state-sponsored vigilante group Salwa-Judum (or Purification Hunt) and debate surrounding the so called “Urban Naxals".

Dr Happymon Jacob speaks with Niranjan Sahoo [Author of two books: Politics of Power Sector Reforms in India, Pentagon Press, 2007 and Reservation Policy and its Implementation across Domains in India: An Analytical Review, Academic Foundation, 2009] about Maoist Insurgency in India with reference to his recently published paper titled “Half a Century of India's Maoist Insurgency: An Appraisal of State Response.” Mr. Sahoo provides a historical overview of the Naxalite movement and speaks about major course of events that posited it as the “single-biggest threat” to Indian State by the mid-2000s. He speaks about the Indian state's counterinsurgency approach. Mr. Sahoo also addresses controversies regarding state-sponsored vigilante group Salwa-Judum (or Purification Hunt) and debate surrounding the so called “Urban Naxals.”

Welcome to Paperback by The Open Library Project- Ep. 31 We have as our guest today, Abbas Momin who is a Stand-up Comedian and also a Producer at IVM Podcasts. In the first half of the episode we discuss Maximum City by Suketu Mehta. We talk about Mumbai as a city of contradictions, its power-politics and the place for the dreamers in the city. In the second half we discuss Born A Crime by Trevor Noah, The First Muslim by Lesley Hazleton, Hello, Bastar by Rahul Pandita and A Lion's Tale by Chris Jericho. Abbas discusses the role of humour in narrating the life of a black comedian growing up during apartheid, biography of Prophet Muhammad, political books, perspectives of Naxalite movement and the world of wrestling among other things. You can follow Abbas Momin on his instagram handle @abbasmomin88 You can find more details about The Open Library Project on www.openlibrary.in You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app. You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/

In 1968, Narayan Singh Chauhan joined an uprising that was painting Indian jungles red. Joined by comrades from different parts of the country, he was there to fight feudal lords, emancipate the peasants and crush the state. In his three year-long involvement with the Naxalite insurgency, Chauhan was involved in multiple encounters and also admits to killing a revenue-collector.Tune in to this snippet of Let's Talk About: Naxalism - Part 1 to listen to his story. Listen to the full episode here: https://www.newslaundry.com/2019/01/02/lets-talk-about-naxalism-part-1Subscribe to Newslaundry to listen to the full version.You can also listen to all our podcasts on iOS and Android.iOS: http://apple.co/2iZhEq1Android: http://bit.ly/2jTtG3x See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Neel Mukherjee talks about his Man Booker Prize nominated book The Lives of Others, which explores the way an Indian family's history is disrupted when one member becomes involved in extremist political activism. The programme was recorded in the library at Styal Prison, Cheshire, with a reading group of women prisoners, and with the support of the National Literacy Trust and the Books Unlocked reading scheme. The Lives of Others is set in Calcutta and the ricefields on the edge of the jungle in the west of West Bengal. It takes place in the second half of the 1960s and centres on the large and relatively wealthy Ghosh family, led by a patriarch and matriarch who rule the family, from the top of a large shared house, with other relatives on lower floors depending on their social standing. The eldest grandson, Supratik, has left home and joined the Naxalite communist rebels and is working secretly in the countryside to mobilise the peasants against the landlords. Letters from him to an unnamed correspondent form one thread of narrative. The other is an intricate account of events and relationships on the various floors of the Ghosh house. There are tragedies and comedies, deaths and births, disasters and feasts and a mystery involving jewellery. The cast is huge and the reader spends time, at one point or another, with most of them. The reading group at Styal prison talk about the large cast of characters and how they drive the story, and also describe the importance of the prison library and reading in their daily lives. Presenter : James Naughtie Interviewed Guest : Neel Mukherjee Producer : Dymphna Flynn September's Bookclub choice : The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (2011).

In honour of his latest release, Jagga Jasoos, we look at three films from celebrated filmmaker Anurag Basu. Show Notes: Erin’s mother loved Dil Dhadakne Do (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dil_Dhadakne_Do) Matt is protesting the CBFC’s crack down on alcohol in films by drinking two beers (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/cbfc-chief-pahlaj-nihalani-may-axe-liquor-consumption-display-of-alcohol-scenes/articleshow/59757490.cms) Anurag Basu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anurag_Basu) Stories by Rabindranath Tagore (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stories_by_Rabindranath_Tagore) Kucch To Hai (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kucch_To_Hai) Leukemia and Tumsa Nahin Dekha: A Love Story (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumsa_Nahin_Dekha:_A_Love_Story) Saaya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saaya_(2003_film)), Murder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_(2004_film)), and Gangster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangster_(2006_film)) Pritam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pritam) Kites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kites_(film)) “Hero” by Enrique Iglesias (https://youtu.be/koJlIGDImiU) Kites: The Remix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kites:_The_Remix) Life In A…Metro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_in_a..._Metro) The Apartment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apartment) and Brief Encounter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_Encounter) Playing By Heart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_by_Heart) Songs: “In Dino (https://youtu.be/EEnB3vDN9AI),” “Alvida (https://youtu.be/NcDxGhwuphI),” “O Meri Jaan (https://youtu.be/fLdCE9beY6g),” and “Baatein Kuch Ankahee (https://youtu.be/qfO5hH48gXU)” (INTERVAL (“Galti Se Mistake https://youtu.be/05TA9jNnCdU” from Jagga Jasoos) Barfi! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barfi!) Barfi the dessert (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barfi Charlie Chaplin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin), Buster Keaton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Keaton), Harold Lloyd (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Lloyd), and Raj Kapoor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj_Kapoor) Saawariya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saawariya) Comparisons to Wes Anderson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Anderson) Songs: “Ala Barfi (https://youtu.be/j0JHpYBRADA),” “Main Kya Karoon (https://youtu.be/02ossVAJM30 ),” “Kyon (https://youtu.be/X_q9IXvt3ro),” “Saawali Si Raat (https://youtu.be/v-eUWdjBgJA),” and “Aashiyan (https://youtu.be/sCMNen9q3fI)” Jagga Jasoos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagga_Jasoos) Framing device (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_story) Musical (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_film) and overcoming adversary by artistic creation Naxalite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naxalite) and the Purulia arms drop case (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purulia_arms_drop_case) Songs: “Khaana Khaake (https://youtu.be/nt_vxUwAbKA ),” “Jhumritalaiyya (https://youtu.be/exUQkIkyBBI),” and “Ullu Ka Pattha (https://youtu.be/h2GhQBI5YGw)” Production problems (http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/a-jagga-jasoos-update-one-missed-deadline-but-no-need-to-fret-1724452, http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/a-jagga-jasoos-crisis-katrina-and-ranbirs-film-may-miss-overseas-deadline-1722735, http://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/not-just-rishi-kapoor-ranbir-slammed-jagga-jasoos-director-too-his-process-is-irresponsible/story-7bDVGoQIlhzhnIHdaWeI3N.html) Our exciting news came our after we recorded, but before we edited: we’re part of the Alberta Podcast Network powered by ATB Financial (https://www.albertapodcastnetwork.com/) NEXT TIME: Martial arts Bollywood with Kathy Gibson of Access Bollywood (https://accessbollywood.net/) Find us on iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/bollywood-is-for-lovers/id1036988030?mt=2)! and Stitcher (http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/bollywood-is-for-lovers)! Follow us on Twitter! (https://twitter.com/bollywoodpod) Like us on Facebook! (https://www.facebook.com/BollywoodIsForLovers/) #AnuragBasu #Kites #HrithikRoshan #BarbaraMori #LifeInAMetro #...

Last month 25 soldiers were killed in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh by Maoist or Naxalite rebels. It's the latest episode in a 50 year conflict which has left thousands dead and tens of thousands homeless. So who are the Naxalites? BBC Hindi's Salman Ravi explains the movement and its origins. Guyanese rodeo Grab your Stetson and pull on those cowboy boots: it's rodeo time in Guyana. This unexpected slice of the wild, wild west takes part in the small ranching town of Lethem and Carinya Sharples went along to join the fun. The gangs of Japan - and Brazil A big business group in Japan had a recent internal disagreement, leading to a splinter group forming. Interviews were given and statements made. What's unusual about the story is that it's about a yakuza or crime syndicate. Ewerthon Tobace reports for BBC Brasil from Tokyo. Umaru and the diamonds Next week a 709 carat rough diamond from Sierra Leone will go under the hammer. It was found in the Kono region, where BBC Africa's Umaru Fofana grew up, and it turns out he's no stranger to diamond mining. China's TV dating show A new TV show called Chinese Dating has captured the hearts of viewers across China. What makes it unusual is that here it's the contestants' parents who make the choices. Suping from BBC Chinese has been viewing. And Fifi Haroon's pick of the world wide web Image: Arms seized from Maoists in Orissa's Malkangiri district following a fierce gun battle with police Credit: STR/AFP/Getty Images