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  Review of Aruna Roy’s "The Personal Is Political"

  19 July 2024, by Sagari Chhabra

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  The Personal Is Political: An Activist’s Memoir
  by Aruna Roy
  Harpercollins India
  2024
  Pages: 272
  ISBN-10

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  Revisiting the 1943 Bengal Famine | Arup Kumar Sen

  19 July 2024, by Arup Kumar Sen

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  The Bengal famine of 1943 has found expressions in the academic discourse over the years. Amartya Sen’s Poverty and Famines (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981) and Paul R. Greenough’s Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943-44 (Oxford University Press, 1982) are classic books on the subject. Madhusree Mukerjee’s more recent book titled Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II (Basic (…)

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  Burn Manipur, Burn! Documenting State-Sponsored Brutalities | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  19 July 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Viewing Indian Polity from the Prism of Manipur: A Compendium on the Continuing Manipur Conflict and Crisis
  Compiled by: Dr Syeda Hameed, Clifton D’Rozario
  Manak Publications, USA Pages: 119; Price: Rs 400/$ 15
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  There cannot be a much better example than Manipur to prove the abject and colossal failure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much-touted and supposedly magical “double engine government”.
  Modi’s long silence on (…)

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  Photo: Richard Serra, Promenade at Monumenta 2008, Grand Palais, Paris

  19 July 2024
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  Film: Bhuvan Shome | Mrinal Sen (1969)

  19 July 2024

  Mrinal Sen’s Bhuvan Shome (1969). The film is a key film of the Indian New Wave or the Parallel Cinema movement that flourished in the 1970s and ’80s. Utpal Dutt and Suhansini Mulay were in the cast.

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  Odi Euterpe: Italian Monody From the Early 17th Century - Dalla porta d’oriente | Rosa Dominguez

  19 July 2024

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  Dalla porta d’oriente by Rosa Domínguez - Topic https://youtu.be/z76jbo8eVfk

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, July 13, 2024

  12 July 2024

  * Editorial - All in the Name of God | Papri Sri Raman
  * First session of the 18th Lok Sabha: A Critical Analysis| P. S. Jayaramu
  * Che Guevara’s historic visit to India-65 years ago! | Chaman Lal
  * Christians and the Political landscape in India | John Dayal
  * Northeast India’s battle against drugs | Sajal Nag
  * Emergency 1975: Some unknown facts L.S. Herdenia
  * The Higher Education of Women in Russia | Sophie Kropotkin

• Editorial - All in the Name of God | Papri Sri Raman

  12 July 2024, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  My NRI brother sent me a cryptic message from Boston last week, ‘Hathras-e Hahakar’. Of course, he could not resist the Bengali propensity for assonance. And he did not like my answer. This is India, land of the devout. The country is headed by a godman who claims non-biological birth. The State of Uttar Pradesh is ruled by a ‘saffron-clad yogi’, Adityanath, from the Gorakhpur sect. The 121 deaths in a stampede at a ‘satsang’ are not considered deaths by the administrations here. It is (…)

• Everything Jaise Tha | JP Gadkari

  12 July 2024, by J P Gadkari

  July 9, 2024
  With a brief formal session of Parliament for declaring open the 18th Lok Sabha and the President addressing its first session and the election of Speaker being over, it has become clear that Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his well-known arrogance is treating everything as it was prior to 2024 election and behaving as if nothing has changed.
  Earlier, after getting himself elected as leader of NDA and his own legislature party, Modi got himself sworn in as Prime Minister (…)

• First session of the 18th Lok Sabha: A Critical Analysis | P. S. Jayaramu

  12 July 2024, by P S Jayaramu

  July 9 2024
  The first session of the 18th Lok Sabha ended a few days ago. Led by the Prime Minister, the Treasury benches were combative from the very beginning, indicating that they had learnt nothing from the drubbing they received by the wise and mature electorate. The Opposition, which after ten long years has an impressive strength in the Lok Sabha, was determined to take on the Government aggressively. I intend making a critical analysis of how the Government and the Opposition (…)