My dear family, friends, colleagues, students and well-wishers,
Two bits of different news for the record. No connection between the two activities, except that the teacher-author, is the same human-being, ie, me:
1. Finally, on Sunday 17 July 2016, I started the "Master's Proficiency in (written) English (MPE-17)" course that I had been planning for five years. We came to stay near Akshar Nandan Shala, off S.B. Road, after we had to vacate the flat in which we lived for 20 years, because our cooperative housing society was demolished for "re-development".
2. I have opened an inclusive FB page "Dark days ahead", to consolidate in one place a personal campaign called "Dark days ahead", which I began on my FB wall when the Modi Sarkar was elected on 16 May 2014.
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MPE-17 allows me to fully use the specialist books in my personal library. I will be preparing an annotated bibliography of the articles, books and websites, which I will be using during the course.
Two bits of different news for the record. No connection between the two activities, except that the teacher-author, is the same human-being, ie, me:
1. Finally, on Sunday 17 July 2016, I started the "Master's Proficiency in (written) English (MPE-17)" course that I had been planning for five years. We came to stay near Akshar Nandan Shala, off S.B. Road, after we had to vacate the flat in which we lived for 20 years, because our cooperative housing society was demolished for "re-development".
2. I have opened an inclusive FB page "Dark days ahead", to consolidate in one place a personal campaign called "Dark days ahead", which I began on my FB wall when the Modi Sarkar was elected on 16 May 2014.
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MPE-17 allows me to fully use the specialist books in my personal library. I will be preparing an annotated bibliography of the articles, books and websites, which I will be using during the course.
Finally, nine (09) students completed the course in August 2017. And we privately published a selection of their writing in partial fulfillment of the course requirements. The book is titled: "Nine Persons, One Journey (NPOJ)". If U want a copy, send an email to: <editjoepinto@gmail.com>
Click here for the detailed program of MPE-17, posted on my blog "Master's Proficiency in (written) English - Class of 2017, which I have opened specially for MPE-17. Please spread the word. Those interested in the course may email me.
STOP PRESS: The second batch of fourteen (14) students, some on-line and some attending class, is going on well.
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In May 2020, during the trying pause due to Covid-19, six
years passed since the Modi Sarkar came to power. But, I have not found one
reason to believe that my campaign "Dark days ahead", directed against the RSS/BJP/Modi Sarkar, was misplaced. On the contrary, the days ahead have become even "darker".
The Liberalisation, Privatisation, Globalisation (LPG) regime, inaugurated in 1992, by the then Finance Minister Manmohan Singh of the P.V. Narasimha Rao government (following the demolition of the Babri Masjid and the assassination of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi), is being more ruthlessly and mercilessly implemented by the Modi Sarkar, aided and abetted by the open nexus between the vicious Hindutva ideology and the smooth corporate world.
The brutal right-wing ideology of the Reaganites and Thatcherites (despite being discredited in the USA and UK) is being unleashed on the Indian peoples in the name of "nationalism".
The time has come to strengthen and deepen the impact of the campaign against the Modi Sarkar. The FB page has a companion blog of the same name.
The Liberalisation, Privatisation, Globalisation (LPG) regime, inaugurated in 1992, by the then Finance Minister Manmohan Singh of the P.V. Narasimha Rao government (following the demolition of the Babri Masjid and the assassination of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi), is being more ruthlessly and mercilessly implemented by the Modi Sarkar, aided and abetted by the open nexus between the vicious Hindutva ideology and the smooth corporate world.
The brutal right-wing ideology of the Reaganites and Thatcherites (despite being discredited in the USA and UK) is being unleashed on the Indian peoples in the name of "nationalism".
The time has come to strengthen and deepen the impact of the campaign against the Modi Sarkar. The FB page has a companion blog of the same name.
Your support is my strength,
~ Joe Pinto, Sunday, 13 December 2020, Pune.
