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  How Britain Exploited Indian ‘Coolies’ in WWI | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  29 May 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Reviewed by M.R. Narayan Swamy
  The Coolie’s Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict 1914-1921 by Radhika Singha HarperCollins Publishers India (https://harpercollins.co.in); Pages: 373; Price: Rs 699
  This is a breathtaking and path-breaking study into how Indian non-combatants, euphemistically called coolies, served the British Raj during World War I. It has two broad aims: one, to rescue the ‘coolie’ and ‘the menial’ in military employment from their condition of historical (…)

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  African Soldiers Remember the Great War | Melvin E. Page

  29 May 2021

  Reviewed by Melvin E. Page (East Tennessee State University)
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  Bakary Diallo, Lamine Senghor. White War, Black Soldiers: Two African Accounts of World War I. Translated by Nancy Erber and William Peniston. Edited and introduction by George Robb. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2021. Illustrations. 200 pp. $17.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62466-951-4
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  White War, Black Soldiers is a welcome addition to the growing effort to bring African voices from World War I to an (…)

• Book Review: Pattanaik on International Migration by Khalid Koser

  29 May 2021

  Review by Nupur Pattanaik*
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  INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION: A Very Short Introduction
  by Khalid Koser
  (2016) Pages 136, Price 399, ISBN-978-0-19-875377-3
  Oxford University Press, UK
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  This book highlights various issues of migration and mobilities specifically and is highly relevant as migration has become a catchword in times of the pandemic as the migrants have been the most affected and vulnerable in these times. The book incorporates the author’s experience gained while (…)

• Shav-Vahini Ganga (Ganges the Carrier of Corpses) | Parul Khakhar

  29 May 2021

  Parul Khakhar, is well known in literary circles in Gujarat. Her poem Shav-Vahini Ganga of May 11, 2021 about the devastating sight of Covid-19 second wave dead bodies that were found floating in the Ganges river has been very popular on social media and has been translated into English, Hindi, and Punjabi several other Indian languages.
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  [English Translation: Salil Tripathi ]
  Don’t worry, be happy, in one voice speak the corpses O King, in your Ram-Rajya, we see bodies flow in (…)

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  Cartoon Tribute by Rajinder Puri in Hindustan Times the day after Jawaharlal Nehru died in 1964

  29 May 2021

  Cartoon Tribute by Rajinder Puri in Hindustan Times, New Delhi on May 28, 1964

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  Photo: Asian Comintern —Ten Malaka, MN Roy, Ho chi Minh (nov dec 1922, Moscow)

  29 May 2021
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  Photo: Sportsmen also stood up during the May 1968 Students and worker uprising in France

  29 May 2021

  Photo: 22 May 1968 footballers in Paris occupied the headquarters of the French Football Association for six days (the same way as workers occupied their factories) and issued a statement demanding the immediate dismissal of football "profiteers", and for football without profits.

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  Music Had to Be in Tune With the Soviet Party Line: Composer Dmitri Shostakovich Paid A Price - a short note | Harsh Kapoor

  29 May 2021, by Harsh Kapoor

  by Harsh Kapoor
  Music at the service of ideology and party bureaucracy in the Soviet Union
  The Russian music composer and pianist Dmitri Shostakovich was born in St Petersburg. In 1919, when he was 13 years old, Shostakovich joined the Petrograd Conservatory. After his graduation, he worked as a trained concert pianist and composer on contracts for all kinds of state entities that existed in the USSR.
  He was a very active part of the progressive current of musicians of the (…)

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  Video: Amitav Ghosh talks about cyclones, climate change | NewsToday - May 26, 2021

  29 May 2021

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  Amitav Ghosh Exclusive On Cyclones, Climate Change And More | News Today With Rajdeep Sardesai by India Today https://youtu.be/8ELhFCVN9Wk

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  Video: The Spiritual in Nehru’s Secular Imagination | Madhavan K Palat

  29 May 2021

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  The Spiritual in Nehru’s Secular Imagination / Madhavan K Palat by Bibhu Prasad Mohapatra https://youtu.be/PLdLB195xxQ
  Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture, 14 November 2019 by Prof Madhavan Palat