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An Urgent Call for Action by Nobel Laureates
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10 May 2021, 16:27 GMT+10
Our Planet, Our Future is the title of the 2021 Nobel Prize Summit. As a follow up to that summit, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine recently published Our Planet, Our Future: An Urgent Call for Action d/d April 29th, 2021.
The opening paragraph of the Noble Laureate declaration implicitly calls for immediate unified worldwide action: The first Nobel Prize Summit comes amid a global pandemic, amid a crisis of inequality, amid an ecological crisis, amid a climate crisis, and amid an information crisis. These supranational crises are interlinked and threaten the enormous gains we have made in human progress.
The Pittsburgh International Literary Festival, known as “LitFest,” hopes to get people talking through reading.
Hosted by the City of Asylum @ Alphabet City based on Pittsburgh’s North Side, the virtual event will feature authors from all over the world discussing topics that encompass Black, Indigenous and all people of color, the LGBTQIA+ community and the politics of publishing.
Abby Lembersky, director of programs for City of Asylum @ Alphabet City, said planning’s been underway since January. This isn’t the only online happening but it is the first 10-day festival the organization done.
It will be held May 12-18 on the organization’s virtual programming channel.
Gautam Ganguly
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Ayub Khan, the then president of Pakistan, in his characteristic tirade against India, uttered, Democracy with illiteracy is hypocrisy , pure and simple. Needless to say that Ayub Khan, the Army General, who had assumed the presidency of Pakistan forcibly, was vehemently critical of the poor literacy rate in India. Winston Churchill, the redoubtable English Prime Minister and Noble Laureate were sceptical of the success of Indian democracy due to her prevalent colossal illiteracy. Therefore, when Jawaharlal Nehru had chosen to introduce universal adult franchise and the first general election in India was held in 1952 with nearly 85 per cent of the voters being illiterate, a large section of intellectuals was highly critical dubbing it as the biggest gamble in history .