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RIP Richard Posner, who charmingly and forthrightly questioned the free market ideology he propagated for decades, after it utterly transformed law schools and American life, with lasting consequences to this day. harpers.org/2010/03/six-ques…
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Today is Maulana Azad's birthday, celebrated as the National Education Day. He was an extraordinary man, who was in public life but loved his solitude. He was an autodidact, who was taught at home, so not being bound by any curriculum he read extensively from religion, philosophy, history, literature to music. Maulana began his career as a firebrand journalist at a very young age. He was exiled by the British for three years in 1916 due to his anti-imperialist writings. Before even joining politics, the colonial govt declared him as one of the most dangerous persons. This was his power of pen that established this reputation. He came out of exile in 1920 and soon met Mahatma Gandhi, ever since his association with the Mahatma and the Congress continued till independence. Maulana remained committed to an indivisible India till the end. His fight against communalisms-both Hindu and Muslim remained the core of his Indian nationalism. Let us pay rich tributes to #MaulanaAbulKalamAzad
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ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS revisits both The Road to Serdom and The Great Transformation (initially titled the Fascist Transformation). Both provide a framework for understanding the rise of fascism and a vision for never again. We have tried Hayek's road for the past decades. It's time to revive Polanyi's ecoconomy for common people.
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'Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands, Canada, and Japan are among those countries whose leaders have chosen not to make an appearance at #Cop31.
Several are headed for Dublin, where EU leaders will hold their first dedicated AI summit.
“The future of AI is apparently worth showing up for, while the future of the planet can wait."'
theguardian.com/environment/…
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آج اقبال کو یاد کرتے ہوئے ایک مصرع ذہن میں سرسراہٹ کرتا ہے۔ اللہ کرے کبھی وہ لمحہ نہ آئے جب ہم بطور قوم کہنے پر مجبور ہوں:
بجھی عشق کی آگ اندھیر ہے
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Since the "cab rank rule" is back as a justification for the latest legal attack on a vulnerable/marginalised group, re-sharing this piece on how it serves as a convenient fig-leaf for lawyers to evade moral responsibility for their actions:
indconlawphil.wordpress.com/…
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Those interested in the duo that Narendra Modi and Gautam Adani have formed in Gujarat à& then nationally, will find détails based in official sources (including CAG reports) in these two books. Their association is unprecedented in the history of India
@WestlandBooks @thewire_in
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Hadi Ali Chatha in his statement recorded under section 342 CrPc before ATC judge says that they have spent the third year of their marriage in jail for human rights work and have thus suffered painful separation from one another so early into our marriage.
"We have not done so far any personal gain, in fact,we have endured only hardship for our work/activism. But we surrender ourselves before the ultimate court where we all must return one day, where all will be held accountable for what they have done"
'افضل احسن' سچ آکھن دا، لبھّ نواں کوئی ڈھنگ
'افضل احسن' سچ آکھن دا، لبھّ نواں کوئی ڈھنگ ۔
چکن لئی 'صلیب' تے پین نوں زہر پیالہ منگ ۔
یا میتھوں ایہہ سننا، بولنا، ویکھنا، سوچنا لے لے،
یا مینوں وی اپنی ڈونگھی، چپّ دے رنگ 'چ رنگ ۔
افضل احسن رندھاوا
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I just turned 59 — the same age David was when he died.
We used to joke that we’d live to 80, and by then someone would figure out how to give us another 20 years, and by then someone would figure out something else, and we half-suspected we’d end up living forever. Which made happiness feel infinite, and time feel abundant.
David was learning guitar with extraordinary stubbornness — possibly the most important thing he did besides writing, and certainly the most beloved. We were also taking ballet classes over Zoom together with a Russian ballerina, along with about a dozen other Russian women and myself. I was writing children’s books and essays. The plan was that once we finished the children’s book about pirates, I’d start a book with Keith Hart about what "nation" actually is. We also wanted to write a book about witches with Silvia Federici.
That was six years ago.
I’m in love again. I’m happy. But I know now, with certainty, that I won’t live forever. Time has contracted — it’s become scarce, and everything is moving very fast.
Maybe that’s why the book I care most about right now is a children’s book I’m making with Michael Hudson about what time is, and how differently people have understood it across cultures and across centuries.
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Extrajudicial killing does not deliver justice. It is a serious crime. If anything, it shows just how broken the justice system is.
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Termine the police investigation in Mir Reza case an 'epic failure' commission notes: 'ranging from negligent to criminally negligent, inexplicable, casual and unprofessional investigation. An acrtive cover up in initial stage of investigation cannot be conclusively ruled out.
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How courageous and intellectually honest to launch an attack on a young man incarcerated on spurious charges for more than 6 years without a trial! What timing! @ShekharGupta
1/5 Sharjeel Imam has given an interview detailing his Islamist manifesto. Surprisingly, no storm has been kicked up over pronouncements that are so unapologetically anti-liberal, anti-secular, anti-democracy, anti-Constitution—in a word, anti-national.
2/5 He openly calls the Constitution fascist, labels secularism a trap, and denounces democracy as a contrivance to deny Muslims their political rights.
3/5 The piece is a litany of indictments against the liberal class. Imam rejects any difference between liberals and Hindutvadis. In his essentialist worldview, all Hindus are the same, unanimous in denying Muslims political power they claim as a divine right.
4/5 Inadvertently, Sharjeel has recognised something that liberals have been fighting shy of acknowledging: that Hindutva’s idea of India is anchored in the same “overarching nationalist framework”— that Muslims are Indians above all else.
5/5 For more, read this Opinion article by Ibn Khaldun Bharati, who looks at Islam from an Indian perspective:
Sharjeel Imam’s Islamist manifesto will be forgotten. The silence of liberals will not
theprint.in/opinion/sharjeel…
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The PPP continues to boast about the 18th Amendment while voting in favour of emergency and supporting governor’s rule.
Is suspending an elected government and imposing technocrats on the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa PPP’s idea of democracy and provincial autonomy?
کسی ملزم کی اپنے وکیل کے ساتھ ملاقات کے بغیر فیئر ٹرائل کا کوئ تصور نہیں۔ بنیادی حقوق کی ایسی پامالی نہ سنی نہ دیکھی۔
دوسری جانب حکومتی نمائندگان ہیں کہ ایمرجنسی اور گورنر راج کے حق میں self serving آئینی تشریحات پیش کرتے تھکتے نہیں۔ جمہوریت بہترین انتقام کیسے ہے اب سمجھ میں آیا۔
ایمان مزاری اور ہادی علی چٹھہ کیخلاف بیریئر ہٹانے کا کیس اتنا عجیب و غریب طریقے سے چل رہا ہے آپ حیران ہو جائیں گے
ایک تو یہ کیس روزانہ کی بنیاد پر چل رہا ہے ۔۔ جہاں اسی انسداد دہشت گردی عدالت میں باقی کیسز روزانہ کی بنیاد پر نہیں چل رہے روٹین میں چل رہے ہیں
چلیں روزانہ ہی عدالت کیس چلائے ۔۔۔ لیکن وکلا کی جیل میں قید ایمان مزاری اور ہادی علی چٹھہ سے ملاقات مشاورت تو ضروری ہے نا ۔۔۔ فئیر اور شفاف ٹرائل کا تقاضا بھی ضروری ہے
لیکن یہاں وکلا کی ملاقات و مشاورت نہیں ہو رہی نا ہی عدالت کروا پا رہی ۔۔۔ وکیل عدالتی حکم پر ملنے جیل گئے وہاں ان کو جیل کے قریب بھی نہیں جانے دیا گیا
دوسری جانب سے انسداد دہشت گردی عدالت نے وکلا اور ملزمان کی غیر موجودگی میں تین گواہوں کے بیانات تین دن پہلے ریکارڈ کئے آج مزید تین گواہوں کے بیانات ریکارڈ کر دئیے
ایمان و ہادی کے وکلا نے نکتہ یہ اٹھایا ہے کہ ایک تو بغیر وجہ عدالت ذاتی حیثیت میں ایمان ہادی کو پیش نہیں کیا جا رہا ویڈیو لنک کے ذریعے پیش کیا رہا ہے ۔۔ جہاں کنکشن کے مسائل بھی ہوتے ہیں وکلا کے ساتھ اس طرح مشاورت بھی نہیں ہو سکتی نا ہی وکلا کو کلائنت سے جیل میں ملنے دیا جا رہا ہے ۔۔۔ اس وجہ سے وکلا اور ملزمان نے کاروائی کا بائیکاٹ کر دیا کہ جب ہمیں ہدایات نہیں مل رہی تو کیس کی پیروی کیسے کریں
اب جج طاہر عباس سپرا نے سماعت کل تک ملتوی کرتے ہوئے استغاثہ کے مزید گواہان کو طلب کر لیا ہے
ایسے لگتا ہے یہ ٹرائل ملزمان و وکلا کے بائیکاٹ کی صورت میں ہی چلے گا ۔۔ اور دوسرے کیس میں ضمانت کے معاملے سے پہلے اس کا فیصلہ بھی ہو سکتا ہے