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  A Star of Cochin Port Sounds Wake Up Call for Kerala | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  13 September 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Notes from Willingdon Island: The Past, The Present, and The Future of Cochin Port and its Hinterland
  by N. Ramachandran
  Konark
  Pages: xxvi + 334; Price: Rs 900
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  This is a beautiful and straight-from-the-heart account of the Cochin Port

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  Bliss on Jaffary, ’Abortion in Mexico: A History

  13 September 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Abortion in Mexico: A History
  by Nora E. Jaffary
  University of Nebraska Press
  Series: Engendering Latin America
  2024, 163 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-1-4962-4021-7
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  Reviewed by Katherine E. Bliss (Global Policy Center, Center for Strategic and International Studies)
  In this new volume, historian Nora E. Jaffary examines how and why legal approaches to abortion in Mexico have changed over time. In particular, she seeks to (…)

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  Caricature: Tribute to Sankarshan Thakur | Jayaraj Vellur

  13 September 2025, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Documentary: The Bhutto Saga or Politics in the Blood (2011) | Arnaud Mandagaran

  13 September 2025

  https://youtu.be/Dio0r94V35M?si=IKOTM_JBMI4dB03u

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  Music: Mean Old Frisco | Eric Clapton (1977)

  13 September 2025

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  Mean Old Frisco by Eric Clapton - Topic https://youtu.be/56o7wNMiYfA?si=eRblNOtVZVwdNe0w

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 36, Sept 6, 2025

  6 September 2025

  * Earthquake in Afghanistan: When Customs Kill More Than the Quake | S N Tripathy
  * Dadabhai Naoroji at 200: The Grand Old Man . . . | Santhosh Mathew
  * Trump

• Earthquake in Afghanistan: When Customs Kill More Than the Quake | S N Tripathy

  6 September 2025, by S N Tripathy

  The recent earthquake in Afghanistan was merciless. A 6.6-magnitude tremor, followed by powerful aftershocks, reduced villages to rubble, killing at least 2,200 people and injuring more than 3,600. Yet while the seismic waves destroyed homes, it is centuries-old customs and rigid gender restrictions that have deepened the tragedy. Women, already the most oppressed under Taliban rule, were left among the last to be rescued-or not rescued at all-as Taliban rules barred unrelated men from (…)

• Trump

  6 September 2025, by Arun Kumar

  The contrast is stark in the way US is negotiating with China and India. For India, a penal duty of 25% has kicked in for trade with Russia. This will be on top of the higher than expected tariff of 25%. But for China another 90 days extension was announced for negotiating a deal. The irony is that China imports much more energy from Russia than India does. Further, US wants to stall China

• Contradictions of Current American Capitalism - A Marxist Perspective | Soma Marla

  6 September 2025, by Soma S. Marla

  Imposition of high tariffs by United States on imported merchandise goods from India and other world nations has perturbed the world trade. President Trump

• The Spectre of Crisis in Moradabad | Arup Kumar Sen

  6 September 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  We seldom keep track of the micro impact of macro-economic shocks. The recent example of such a shock is imposition of tariffs on Indian exports by US at exorbitant rates. This aggressive tariff policy of the Trump administration has posed a big threat to the survival of many Indian export-based industries and shattered the livelihoods of many people.
  A fieldwork-based report on brass industry in Moradabad by Imran Ahmed Siddiqui, carried in The Telegraph (August 25, 2025), has documented (…)