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  Paula Larsson. Review of Charles, Nicole, Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados

  15 April 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
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  Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados by Nicole Charles
  Duke University Press 2021. xi + 196 pp. $25.95 (paper) ISBN 978-1-4780-1763-9.
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  Reviewed by Paula Larsson (University of Oxford)
  Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados is a short but gripping ethnographic study exploring the manifestation of suspicion as it relates to the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine (…)

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  Caricature: Tribute to Aljafee | Jayaraj Vellur

  15 April 2023, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Photo: The Mother of the Shoeshine Boy and the Shoeshine Boy 1950s [Mexico] | Manuel Álvarez Bravo

  15 April 2023
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  Music: Heygana (1990) | Ali Farka Touré

  15 April 2023

  Ali Ibrahim "Ali Farka" Touré (1939 – 2006) was a Malian singer and multi-instrumentalist. Play
  Heygana by Ali Farka Touré - Topic https://youtu.be/4fmcTYfNvZY

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  Video: The Purpose of Education | Noam Chomsky (2012)

  15 April 2023

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  Noam Chomsky - The Purpose of Education by lwf https://youtu.be/DdNAUJWJN08

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Apr 8, 2023

  8 April 2023

  * Science As a Cultural Ideal | Ravi Sinha
  * Govt’s hostile to peaceful protests | S G Vombatkere
  * Declare Right to Health a Fundamental Right | Arun Mitra
  * Concerned Historians Statement on the Recent Changes Made by the NCERT in School Textbooks

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Apr 8, 2023

  8 April 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 8, 2023
  Congress party led governments in the states of Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh have recently brought in commendable public welfare legislation that need recognition. In late March this year, the Rajasthan assembly passed the ‘Right to Health Bill’ (RTH), which guarantees a right to free healthcare for the state’s 80 million citizens. It requires that no hospitals turn away needy patients & deny ‘emergency’ treatment and the costs (…)

• Science as a Cultural Ideal | Ravi Sinha

  8 April 2023

  by Ravi Sinha •
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  This talk was originally planned for the Science Day, but I hope what I am going to say will be relevant for all the other days too. On February 28, 1928, C V Raman (1888 — 1970) along with his student, K S Krishnan (1898 — 1961), discovered what is known as the Raman Effect. Raman was awarded the physics Nobel Prize in 1930 for the discovery. Since 1987, this day has been celebrated in India as the National Science Day.
  Science in the Indian subcontinent experienced (…)

• Sankey Road, Bengaluru: Governments are hostile to peaceful protests | S G Vombatkere

  8 April 2023, by S G Vombatkere

  Citizens protesting against felling of trees are pejoratively called “environmental activists”, “buddhijeevi-andolanjeevi”, and worse, by a certain section of politicians and people. Transcending political ideology, state and central governments, and powerful persons intoxicated with the promise of money flowing out of the current model of development, view all public protests with undisguised hostility.
  Bengaluru police demonstrated government-sanctioned hostility when it booked criminal (…)

• Declare Right to Health a Fundamental Right | Arun Mitra

  8 April 2023, by Arun Mitra

  The Passing of the Right to Health Bill by the Rajasthan Assembly is a long overdue requirement of the citizens and a demand of the health care organizations. This Act gives the residents of Rajasthan right to free healthcare. The right to health thus becomes justiciable, that is the government is now answerable in the eyes of law. The Act primarily puts the onus on the state to ensure healthcare to the people through the guarantee of nutrition, safe drinking water, sewerage facilities etc. (…)