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  How America

  14 June 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  The Long Southern Strategy:
  How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics
  by Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields
  Oxford University Press:
  Pages: xxiii + 534
  ISBN-10 ? : ? 0190265965
  ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-0190265960
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  For a long time, Democrats had painted the entire southern United States blue, winning the hearts of the white majority in the sprawling region. There was a reason for this. The Democratic Party (…)

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  Video: Language Policy: A Formula for Learning?

  14 June 2025

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  Language Policy: A Formula for Learning? by IIC Programmes https://youtu.be/Yag3VQh6lLc?si=tGMoSknybKvuLFOJ

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  Music: Valentin Silvestrov’s Melodies of Silence

  14 June 2025

  Composer: Valentin Silvestrov
  Artist: Tomasz Kamieniak Play
  Silvestrov: Melodies of Silence by Brilliant Classics https://youtu.be/Hm2_XI4GI84?si=XKxpfgEASCM-vWk0

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  Audio: Is this fascism? | Daniel Trilling and Thomas Jones

  14 June 2025
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  Photo from CPIM Convention for restoration of legitimate constitutional rights of the people of Jammu & Kashmir (June 2025)

  14 June 2025
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  Caricature: Tribute to Frederick Forsyth | Jayaraj Vellur

  14 June 2025
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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 23, June 7, 2025

  7 June 2025

  * Indian Sophias: A Distinct Breed | L K Sharma
  * Newsrooms or War Rooms | Adfer Shah
  * Appeal to Govts. from International media & press freedom bodies for access to Gaza

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 7, 2025

  7 June 2025

  Misogyny Normalised
  Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the wrestler cum politician from Uttar Pradesh who was facing sexual harassment charges saw his case closed by a Delhi court in May 2025, after the accused and her family withdrew their case and the police closed the matter. Following the closure Mr Brij Bhushan held a victory parade with 100 SUVs and thousands of his supporters in tow in the

• Indian Sophias: A Distinct Breed | L K Sharma

  7 June 2025, by L K Sharma

  An unusual Sophia Saga marked the latest Indo-Pak armed conflict. Reports were floated, then denied, that Col. Sophia Qureshi

• Cracks in Operation Sindur | Radhakanta Barik

  7 June 2025, by Radhakanta Barik

  Modi as the Prime Minister is scared of educated people and he cracks jokes " Hard work vs Harvard" This creates problems for managing the conflict areas of Indian economy politics and foreign policy. He dismantled the Planning Commission which used to bring the best economists to think boldly and searched a way out of crisis. It was a place of consultation among the chief ministers of states which affects the federal structure of political system. Niti Ayog cannot replace the old Planning (…)