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• Electoral defeat of AAP is intwined in the duality of politics | Arun Srivastava

  15 February 2025

  It might appear to be obnoxious but it is an impermeable reality that the people of Delhi did not say anything nor they scripted a thumping victory for BJP. Narendra Modi, as always, this time too is far from the truth when he says "The people of Delhi have ousted AAPda!

• Interview with Frank A a food processing consultant | Martha Rosenberg

  15 February 2025, by Martha Rosenberg

  Excerpt from a new book
  Food, Clothes, Men, Gas, and Other Problems
  by Martha Rosenberg
  2025
  Paperback: 248 pages
  ISBN-13: 979-8304898270
  The book is available here on Amazon
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  In 2020, China

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  Music Video: Los Indios Tabajaras Adios Mariquita Linda, Lisboa antigua

  15 February 2025

  Los Indios Tabajaras was a guitar duo of two brothers, Antenor Lima and Natalicio (Nato) Lima, from Cear

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  Documentary: The astonishing intelligence of bumblebees, wasps & co.

  15 February 2025

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  Smart insects - The astonishing intelligence of bumblebees, wasps & co. | DW Documentary by DW Documentary https://youtu.be/Iy6eAE3hmas?si=7q3kLVsT0Qy_Gd6H

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  Painting: Die Nachtschicht / The Night Shift by Marianne von Werefkin (1924)

  15 February 2025
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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 6, Feb 8, 2025

  8 February 2025

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• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 8, 2025

  8 February 2025

  Letter to the Readers
  In a very shocking development on February 5, 2025 a large mob of protestors demolished the Dhaka house of

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  A Dalit Activist

  8 February 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Indian communist parties have often failed in weaving Indian identities into the language of left politics; Dalit or lower caste identities, gender-based identities, tribal identities are prominent among those. India

• 2025 Delhi Assembly Election Results: A preliminary assessment | P. S. Jayaramu

  8 February 2025, by P S Jayaramu

  February 8, 2025
  The most prestigious and widely awaited Delhi Assembly election results are out. Though there were three national Parties which were in the fray, the results have shown beyond any shadow of a doubt that the contest was bipolar between the incumbent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) with the grand old Party the Indian National Congress (INC) being on the margins, though some of the Party leaders stated that they are in the race for power, at least as

• Budget 2025-26: Pursuing Growth by raising urban demand & Exports, ignores Employment | Sher Singh Sangwan

  8 February 2025

  The budget is broadly growth-oriented like the earlier ones of the BJP-led government. This time the path of pushing investment is by raising the urban demand and increasing exports.The urban demand was showing signs of slackness over the previous two years or so due to inflation and jobs lost after COVID-19. Assessing the situation, the Finanace Minister has aptly raised the income tax exemption limit from Rs.7 lakh to Rs12 lakh for the middle class and even reduced slab rates up to income (…)