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• Book Excerpt: Transition Town Movement by T. Vijayendra, Usha Rao and Shreekumar

  9 September 2023, by T. Vijayendra

  TRANSITION TOWN MOVEMENT: Local Action in the Wake of Global Emergency and Collapse by T. Vijayendra, Usha Rao and Shreekumar
  2023, Sangatya, Pp 80, Rs. 50/-
  Manchi Pustakam Email: sureshkosaraju[at]yahoo.co.in Mobile: +91 73822 97430
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  We are caught in a Global Emergency. This has several aspects to it - Resource Depletion, Global Warming, Ecological Degradation, Growing Inequality and Social Unrest. The primary cause of this emergency is the current crisis of (…)

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  Checkmating Communist China’s Rise and Rise | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  9 September 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
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  Beijing Rules: China’s Quest for Global Influence by Bethany Allen
  John Murray Press ISBN-13: 9781529367799 Pages: xxix + 305; Price: Rs 799
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  Review of Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam | Francis R. Bradley

  9 September 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Reviewed by Francis R. Bradley (Pratt Institute)
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  Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam: Quyền Van Minh and Jazz in Hanoi by Stan BH. Minh Tan-Tangbau
  University Press of Mississippi 2021. 320 pp. (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4968-3633-5; (paper), ISBN 978-1-4968-3634-2
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  Stan BH Tan-Tangbau collaborated with saxophonist Quyền Vӑn Minh to write the first major history of jazz in Vietnam. Minh is the central figure in the book’s narrative and he writes (…)

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  Caricature: Tribute to Ajit Ninan | Jayaraj Vellur

  9 September 2023

  [Ajit Ninan the well-known cartoonist and illustrator, whose work appeared in India’s well-known magazines and newspapers for decades, has passed away at his residence in Mysore. He was 68]

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  Cartoon: On India’s Relief to Nepal in 2015 | Jug Suraiya & Ajit Ninan (Like That only - The Times of India)

  9 September 2023

  Source: Twitter

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  Photo: The Mother’s Hand (1966) by Antanas Sutkus

  9 September 2023
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  Video: Press Conference on Memorandum to ECI on Free & Fair Elections in India

  9 September 2023

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  Press Conference on Memorandum to ECI on Free & Fair Elections by Anjali Bhardwaj https://youtu.be/dCVTqvoPMCw?si=QDxtRLKCwz8HQWV3

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  Music: Fight the Real Enemy - War by Sinead O’Connor

  9 September 2023

  https://youtu.be/X0VpfiMcPPA

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  Audio: Lucas Chancel on Climate Inequalities, Polution Levels | 40min | 06/09/2023

  9 September 2023
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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Aug 26 & Sept 2, 2023

  25 August 2023

  * An Anatomy of Research | Arup Maharatna
  * Nuh Violence and its Aftermath | Arup Kumar Sen
  * The bogey of BJP’s new constituency: Pasmanda & Muslim women | Faraz Ahmad
  * The Environmental Holocaust In India | Kobad Ghandy
  * Art and Socialism | William Morris