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  "Post-Post modernist" theory of "Cohesive development through Alternative development paradigm | Bharat Patankar

  18 October 2025

  It was a very great experience to read Prof. Sunil Ray’s upcoming book. In fact, at many instances while I was reading, I thought as if I am reading my own writing on the "Alternative development paradigm "!! This was particularly true when I was reading the beginning of the Part III which says,
  "The primary condition for cohesive development is social cohesion among individuals with a sense of community and commitment to the common objective based on collective understanding and shared (…)

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  Using a terror technique to spy on China | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  18 October 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Shadow Cell: An Insider Account of the New Spy War
  by Andrew Bustamante and Jihi Bustamante
  Headline Press/Hachette
  Pages: x + 261; Price: Rs 699
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  Without doubt, this is a gripping story involving the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and how two of its operatives decided to use techniques perfected by Osama bin Laden in their own spy business with surprise results.
  No, CIA agents Andrew and Jihi Bustamante did not (…)

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  Music: Je me suis fait tout petit (I Made Myself Tiny) - Song of Georges Brassens Played by Ray Ventura and His Orchestra

  18 October 2025

  The Music of Georges Brassens Played by Ray Ventura and His Orchestra

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  Video: Marcus Rediker Talks on the History of Escaping Slavery By Sea

  18 October 2025

  Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery By Sea
  by Marcus Rediker
  (Penguin Random House, 2025)

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 41, Oct 11, 2025

  11 October 2025

  * Odissa

• Census 2027 and Caste Enumeration in India: Navigating Methodological and Cultural Complexities | Adfer Rashid Shah

  11 October 2025

  Abstract
  The 2027 Indian Census, the first digital census and the first to enumerate castes since 1931, aims to map caste identities to inform equitable policymaking. Conducted after a 16-year hiatus, this ambitious exercise faces methodological, sociological and anthropological complexities due to caste

• Circular Economy: Sustainable Development, Resource Conservation | S. N. Tripathy

  11 October 2025, by S N Tripathy

  The rapid growth of population, coupled with the ever-increasing pressure on finite resources, has rekindled the global debate on the

• Is Mayawati really concerned anymore about Dalits | Faraz Ahmad

  11 October 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Behen Mayawati could not have chosen a more inopportune time to shower her praises on the most inappropriate party (the ruling BJP) and the most underserving leader, UP chief minister Ajay Bisht, nee Yogi Adityanath on October 9 to mark the death anniversary of Manyawar Kanshi Ram.
  Two days prior to that on October 7, Y. Puran Kumar a scheduled caste 2001 batch Haryana cadre, senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer shot himself dead at his home in (…)

• India

  11 October 2025, by Sudipta Bhattacharyya, Tanusree Debnath

  Abstract This article examines the paradox of India

• Modern Currents: Electricity and Its Impact on Middle-Class Women

  11 October 2025, by Urmita Ray

  Electricity arrived in colonial Bengal in the late nineteenth century, initially serving elite institutions and commercial centers in Calcutta. Its gradual adoption in middle-class homes signaled more than infrastructural change. It transformed the social and emotional rhythms of domestic life. For bhadramahila (middle-class women) committed to ideals of respectability and reform, the illuminated home introduced new regimes of visibility, comfort, hygiene and discipline. This paper focuses (…)