Mainstream WeeklyThe elevation of Draupadi Murmu, an Adivasi, as President of India succeeded by Ramnath Kovind, a Dalit, as the Constitutional Head of the country signaled adroit strategies by the BJP to represent marginalized sections communities in consonance with its efforts at forging national identities conferring it with electoral success. Much in a similar vein, of late, Mohan Majhi has been anointed as the Chief Minister of Odisha following the BJP
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Date: 10th January 2025
Press Release
The following statement was issued to the press by AITUC today-10th January 2025.
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Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India
by Nandini Bhattacharya
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Intoxicating Histories Series
2023. xii + 257 pp.
(paper), ISBN 978-0-228-01753-0
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