Mainstream Weekly4 April 2024
The most startling and disturbing news of the week: Between 2022 and 2023 the Centre awarded 40 Sainik School agreements to educational institutes linked with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Hindutva organisations and leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party or its allies, analysis of the Right to Information replies by The Reporters’ Collective has shown.
Several details follow, which are adequate to make any concerned citizen more than worried. Also, not to be overlooked a (…)
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Review of Markus Rediker et. al. (eds.) A Global History of Runaways | Mark Dunick
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Photo: the third entomological meeting at Pusa, New Delhi in 1919
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