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• Comedians vs. Censors: Revisiting Ideology and Language of Abuse | Amit Kumar

  8 March 2025

  Abstract
  In the wake of the recent backlash against the comedian Samay Raina and his fellow panellists on India’s Got Latent, the controversy underscores the persistent tensions between free expression and moral censorship in India. Marked by multiple FIRs, it raises critical questions about whether India is prepared to engage with profanity-laced humour beyond traditional boundaries. The study examines the ideological and structural underpinnings of selective outrage, drawing upon themes (…)

• Trump

  8 March 2025

  There is a definite well-thought-out rightist design behind US President Donald Trump

• Tribute to A. K. Biswas | Vidya Bhushan Rawat

  8 March 2025, by Vidya Bhushan Rawat

  Deeply sad to hear about the demise of Dr A K Biswas, one of the foremost historians of the Bahujan movement who has been consistently writing on issues hitherto kept under the carpet by the mainstream Brahmanical

• Caste Enumeration Controversy in Telangana | Srinivasulu Karli

  8 March 2025, by Karli Srinivasulu

  The Congress government in Telangana is mired in a controversy pertaining to the results of the caste enumeration it made public. The Congress under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi promised caste enumeration as part of the party

• From Kumbh to Mahakumbh | Radhakanta Barik

  8 March 2025, by Radhakanta Barik

  The jammed roads to the Kumbh religious conclave on the eve of ’Mahashivaratri’ explains the state of politics in India. Tax concessions to the upper middle class pushed them to have double dips: one in the Triveni and another in a hotel room. They have to protect themselves from disease. They will sell their vehicle and buy one from Trump’s nominee, Musk, who is establishing his car plant in India or importing the vehicles from the factory in China. They will leave Modi behind to join the (…)

• How sincere is Jaishankar on PoK? | Faraz Ahmad

  8 March 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar stated at Chatham House, London, on March 6 that the only outstanding issue with Pakistan in reference to Jammu and Kashmir was Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) and would be solved the day that part of Kashmir was re-occupied by India.
  Jaishankar must have chuckled when he said this because he was replying to a question on Kashmir raised by some Pakistani journalist in London, asking about the Indo-Pak dispute over Kashmir lasting all the 78 (…)

• Recent developments on ending the Ukraine war : Some Thoughts | P. S. Jayaramu

  8 March 2025, by P S Jayaramu

  The world is witnessed to unusual and mind-boggling developments in recent days on the efforts to end the war in Ukraine. The roots of such efforts,must no doubt be traced to Donald Trump

• Right to Abortion — Women Betrayed by the System in Brazil | L.M. Bonato

  8 March 2025

  Given the rise of conservative parties following Jair Bolsonaro

• Against the Couple-Form | Clemence X. Clementine and associates from the Infinite Venom Girl Gang

  8 March 2025
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  Review of Ali, Saleem H., Soil to Foil: Aluminum and the Quest for Industrial Sustainability | Andrew Perchard

  8 March 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
  Soil to Foil: Aluminum and the Quest for Industrial Sustainability
  by Saleem H. Ali
  Columbia University Press
  2023. 320 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-20448-4
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  Reviewed by Andrew Perchard (University of Otago)
  Saleem Ali takes aluminum as the subject of his book, Soil to Foil. Ali