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  NAPM demands Govt of India to drop amendments to Nuclear Laws & pursue sustainable energy alternatives | August 10, 2025

  17 August 2025

  80th Anniversary of Hiroshima & Nagasaki must deepen our resistance and resolve to ensure a nuclear-free world order
  NAPM demands Govt of India to drop dangerous proposals for amendments to Nuclear Laws and pursue sustainable energy alternatives
  10th August, 2025: Eighty years ago, on the mornings of 6th & 9th August, 1945, the world witnessed the catastrophic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing over 200,000 civilians instantly and condemning generations to untold (…)

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  Ghachar Ghochar Waited for Me to Grow Up

  17 August 2025, by Disha

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Ghachar Ghochar
  by Vivek Shanbhag
  HarperCollins Publishers India
  2015
  124 pages
  ISBN-10: ? 9789351776178
  ISBN-13: ? 978-9351776178
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  Sometimes a story does not unfold for the sake of entertainment or instruction but simply sits in a room, quietly existing, until you are ready to meet it on its own terms. Ghachar Ghochar is not a loud novel, nor is it in a rush to deliver a climax or resolution. It simply waits, almost (…)

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  Review of Minami’s, People’s Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold Wa

  17 August 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  People’s Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War
  by Kazushi Minami
  Cornell University Press
  2024. 270 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-7415-7
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  Reviewed by Yanqiu Zheng (St. Lawrence University)
  Kazushi Minami

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  Cartoon: Jana Gana Mana, ’Sir they are singing in the Bangladeshi language again’ | Soumydip Sinha

  17 August 2025
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  Cartoon: Dont Read this, Dont Eat this, Dont Wear this ... Happy Independence Day! | Alok

  17 August 2025

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  Picture: Hand written English translation of Jana Gana Mana by Rabindranath Tagore

  17 August 2025

  "Jana Gana Mana" is the national anthem of India, originally composed in Bengali by poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

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  Audio: A conversation on the book Lively Cities by Maan Barua and Sandra Jasper

  17 August 2025
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  Video: Capital by Karl Marx - A Moishe Postone Seminar | Class 1 & 2 | Part 1 of 7

  17 August 2025
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  Music: Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia / Act 1 - "Largo al factotum" | John Charles Thomas

  17 August 2025

  Largo Al Factotum (From the Barber of Seville) · John Charles Thomas
  2004 - Beaumex Play
  Largo Al Factotum (From the Barber of Seville) by John Charles Thomas - Topic https://youtu.be/Ei7lfYpuSEA

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 32, Aug 9, 2025

  9 August 2025

  * Letter to PM Narendra Modi