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  Review of Lovejoy, Alice, Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War | Joris Mercelis

  22 April

  BOOK REVIEW
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  Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War
  by Alice Lovejoy
  University of California Press
  2025. Illustrations. 256 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-40293-5
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  Reviewed by Joris Mercelis (Heinrich Heine University D

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  Caricature: Tribute to Asha Bhosale | Jayaraj Vellur

  22 April, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Music: Chasing Waves - Farah Fersi

  22 April

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  Chasing Waves - Farah Fersi by Farah Fersi https://youtu.be/LIbWSHAvFuE?si=uVliIKXk9SaL9iV5

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  Audio: Rethinking development from Sri Lanka

  22 April

  An episode of Economies that work for all Podcast

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Vol 64 No 10, Apr 10, 2026

  10 April

  * What is happening in Assam? | Arup Kumar Sen
  * The Unaccountable State | Varna Sri Raman
  * India, Pakistan, & Afghanistan at Energy Security Frontiers | Tanishaa Pandey & Lakshmi Karlekar
  * Israelis, Indians & others

• What is happening in Assam? | Arup Kumar Sen

  10 April, by Arup Kumar Sen

  On the eve of the assembly elections, the media spotlight is on two non-BJP ruled states

• The Unaccountable State | Varna Sri Raman

  10 April, by Varna Sri Raman

  Fifty years of amendments, one direction of travel: how the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act became the instrument through which the Indian state removes the organisations that hold it to account.
  I have spent more than twenty years in and around civil society organisations. My first fieldwork was in a cramped NGO office in a district town, the kind of place that ran on a combination of Ford Foundation money, two overworked programme officers, and a conviction that someone had to do (…)

• Poll in Bengal or War on Bengal!? Sukla Sen

  10 April

  Prelude
  On April 6, having been directed by the Supreme Court, a very senior judge heading one of the nineteen tribunals, constituted by the Calcutta High Court, of retired HC judges to decide on appeals against the outcomes of the "adjudication" process pursuant to the SIR in West Bengal — delivers a lightning swift judgement on the first and understandably one of the only two cases decided as yet. He has quite graciously restored the appellant’s status as a rightful voter and (…)

• Power over Principle: Reclaiming Public Discourse as a Space for Genuine Engagement | S N Tripathy

  10 April, by S N Tripathy

  The American Left comprises diverse political ideologies, movements, and organisations advocating for social, economic, and political equality. It ranges from progressive Democrats and modern liberals to democratic socialists and more radical leftists, emphasising social justice, labor rights, environmentalism, and government intervention to reduce inequality.

• Gender and Youth Underrepresentation in Kerala

  10 April, by Jos Chathukulam

  Abstract
  Despite significant advancements in human development indicators, Kerala presents a paradox in electoral representation. Women constitute more than 52% of the population, and individuals below 50 years account for approximately 66.5%. However, their representation among candidates fielded by major political fronts