Mainstream Weekly(Note: How relevant to the dot this poem remains after 17 years? It was first published in Times of India on 19 April 2004. It referred to the then Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and to the 11 vows of Gandhi; The moral compass was pointing to the 2004 General Elections - the ’India Shining’ campaign was leading the country nowhere. For the 11 vows of Gandhi please see link: https://www.gandhi-manibhavan.org/educational-resources/the-eleven-vows-of-gandhiji.html)
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Gandhi’s Compass
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Disorganized ‘Forest’ Management Institutions and Raji’s Life Chances | Bhawesh Pant
20 August 2021by Bhawesh Pant*
United Nations’ (UN) 49/214 resolution of 1994 decided to observe 9th August as International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. With intent to respect, promote and protect indigenous (tribal) cosmologies. This year’s theme “Leaving no one behind Indigenous peoples and the call for a new social contract”, aims to comprehend the unique relationship with their lands and varied concepts of development based on their worldviews and priorities. Let us take the opportunity (…) -
Cultural Dimension of Climate Change | Pavittarbir Singh Saggu
20 August 2021Pavittarbir Singh Saggu*
Abstract
Culture mediates society’s response to global climate change in all of its manifestations. To demonstrate that climate change impacts cultural elements such as material and lived culture, identity, community cohesiveness, or sense of place, this article examines studies from across the social sciences. Moreover, it contends that cultures’ responses and adaptations to climate-related risks have major cultural elements. This article demonstrates how (…) -
Book Extracts from Yusuf and Zuleika: The Return of the Despot | Murzban Jal
20 August 2021BOOK EXTRACT
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Yusuf and Zuleika:
The Return of the Despot
by Murzban Jal
Aakar Books
(8-E, Pocket-IV Mayur Vihar Phase-I Delhi-110 091)
2019
152 pages
Paper Back
ISBN : 9789350025994
https://www.aakarbooks.com/details.php?bid=902
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The Indian Elites as Caste Overlords
The idea that caste is rooted in pre-capitalist society while seeming to be historically correct would turn out to be phantasmagorical if it is not contextualized in concrete material and (…) -
Population Control Bill: Is there a need? | Bajaj & Pandey
20 August 2021by Shriya Bajaj and Sandeep Pandey*
Recently population Control bill has been in the light in India. Two states Assam and Uttar Pradesh have proposed Population Stabilization Bill. Also, many other states; Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Karnataka and Odisha are following two-child norm for the local body elections (Two-child policy in Indian states, 2019). Indian prime minister Narendra Modi during his Independence Day speech in (…) -
Myanmar: ‘The story of what happens when dictators come to power’ | Ronja Koskinen
20 August 2021by Ronja Koskinen
Aug 12, 2021
Six months after the military coup, Myanmar’s journalists are still fighting to do their jobs. IPI spoke with Burmese journalists in-and outside the country to assess the threats facing the media.
Arbitrary arrests, torture, surveillance, economic uncertainty, exile. This is the new normal for journalists in Myanmar since the February 1 military coup.
Six months later, the junta has shown no signs of changing course from its crackdown on independent (…) -
Lovett on Nakachi, ’Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union’
20 August 2021Reviewed by Jessica Lovett (University of Nottingham)
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REPLACING THE DEAD:
The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union.
by Mie Nakachi
New York: Oxford University Press
2021, 348 pp.
Print ISBN-13: 9780190635138
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Motherhood, pronatalism, and the role of women have long been popular research topics for Soviet historians. This exciting new book answers an important, specific question in this field: why did a regime, which was fixated on raising the (…) -
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Tribute to Federico Garcia Lorca | Jayaraj Vellur
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