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  Review: ‘Interpreting the World to Change It - Essays for Prabhat Patnaik’ | Rishav Sharma

  2 June 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
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  Interpreting the World to Change It: Essays for Prabhat Patnaik C.P Chandrashekhar and Jayati Ghosh (editors)
  Tulika Books, New Delhi 2018 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9382381937 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9382381938 __0__
  Interpreting the World to Change it: Essays for Prabhat Patnaik is a collection of essays celebrating the life of the stellar Marxist economist Professor Prabhat Patnaik. The contributors include Ashok Mitra, Irfan Habib, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Akeel Bilgrami, Prakash (…)

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  Leo Chu Review of ’The Globalization of Wheat by Baranski’

  2 June 2023

  BOOK REVIEW Reviewed by Leo Chu (Cambridge University)
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  The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution by Marci Baranski INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment. University of Pittsburgh Press
  2022. 256 pp. (cloth) ISBN 978-0-8229-4734-9.
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  When discussing my research with someone from a different field, the term “Green Revolution” does not always ring a bell—people often think it means transition to renewable energy. Among historians, in (…)

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  An Insightful Peep into Pakistan’s Minorities | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  2 June 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
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  A White Trail: A Journey into the Heart of Pakistan’s Religious Minorities
  by Haroon Khalid
  Vintage/Penguin Random House Pages: xxi + 334; Price: Rs 399 (PP) ISBN: 9780143460770
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  How do religious minorities cope up in overwhelmingly Islamic Pakistan? Pakistan is not just a country founded by and for Muslims but it has taken great pains to educate entire generations to look down upon the "other" (read minorities), particularly since General Zia ul-Haq (…)

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  Cartoon: Free Speech is a Myth . . . | Nala Ponnappa

  2 June 2023
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  Wassily Kandinsky’s Illustrations: On the Dance of Palucca (1926)

  2 June 2023

  Wassily Kandinsky’s line drawings in 1926 based on German dancer and Mary Wigman student Gret Palucca’s angular movements

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  Music: Viva la Quince Brigada - Anthem of Irish Republican Volunteers During Spanish Civil War

  2 June 2023
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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, May 27, 2023

  28 May 2023

  * The Siddaramaiah Phenomenon in Karnataka Politics | P. S. Jayaramu
  * History Is Calling Us! Unite In Struggle To Defend The Values Of The Freedom Struggle | Manoranjan Mohanty
  * M N Roy Memorial Lecture 2023
  * Tribute: Sheetla Singh | Bharat Dogra
  * Two ways to fight land subsidence | TamilSalvi Mari

• The Siddaramaiah Phenomenon in Karnataka Politics | P. S. Jayaramu

  28 May 2023

  by P. S. Jayaramu
  (23th May 2023)
  Siddaramaiah was recently sworn in as the Chief Minister of Karnataka for the second time. He is a pan-Karnataka mass leader from the kuruba, OBC community. He and the KPCC President D. K. Shiva Kumar led the Congress Party in an intense electoral battle with the BJP and registered an emphatic victory bagging 135 seats, with 43 percent vote share. The ruling BJP faced a humiliating defeat securing only 66 seats though its vote share remained intact at 36 (…)

• Lenin, Gandhi and M N Roy: Their relevance to shape a new world order | P.R. Ramanujam

  28 May 2023

  M. N. Roy Memorial Lecture 2023 was delivered by Prof. P.R. Ramanujam * on 28th April 2023 at the Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi. The full text follows
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  Karl Marx’s 11th thesis on Feuerbach states: “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it” [1]. The three leaders I have chosen to reflect on for today’s talk are all, in their own ways, philosophers and practitioners in changing the world on various grounds (…)

• History Is Calling Us! Unite In Struggle To Defend The Values Of The Freedom Struggle | Manoranjan Mohanty

  28 May 2023, by Manoranjan Mohanty

  Text of presentation by Manoranjan Mohanty, the Chair of the Reception Committee, Bharat Bachao, 11-12 March 2023, HK Surjeet Bhavan, New Delhi
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  ‘Save Democracy, Save Indian Constitution, Save India’
  Unite In Struggle To Defend The Values Of The Freedom Struggle:
  Swadhinata, Samata, Sanhati, Swaraj Freedom, Equality, Solidarity, Self-Rule
  Have Faith In History, Have Faith In People, Have Faith In Future
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  History is calling upon us all to awaken further and come (…)