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  Dissecting a Dictator amid Western Hypocrisy | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  7 June 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution
  by Lindsey Hilsum
  Faber and Faber
  Pages: xxi + 228; Price: Rs 599
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  That Muammar Gaddafi suffered a horrible death at the hands of some of those he had tormented for decades is no news. That he, his family as well as cronies bled Libya during the 42 years that he presided over the country is also known. What makes award-winning journalist Lindsey Hilsum

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  Review of Pushpa Sundar’s Beyond the Heaven-born Service My Journey from the IAS to Philanthropy’ | Malathi Subramanian

  7 June 2025

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  Beyond the Heaven-born Service
  My Journey from the IAS to Philanthropy
  by Pushpa Sundar
  Speaking Tiger Books
  December 12, 2024
  Print length: 314 pages
  ISBN-10 : 9354477984 / ISBN-13 : 978-9354477980
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  Reviewed by Malathi Subramanian
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  Music: Cumplicidade (2020) Michael Pipoquinha, Pedro Martins

  7 June 2025

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  Cartoon: India’s Kabadiwala with the remains of a Rafale military Jet | Nala Ponnappa

  7 June 2025
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  Photo: Darjeeling by Marc Riboud (1950’s)

  7 June 2025
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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 22, May 31, 2025

  31 May 2025

  * FTAs and Marginalised Sections | Arun Kumar
  * Crisis for Street Vendors & Unheard Voices of Post-COVID-19 Recovery in Delhi | V.K.Sridhar
  * The battle between David Harvard and Goliath Trump . . . | Vijay Kumar
  * Decoding a Crime of

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 31, 2025

  31 May 2025

  Growth considerations & desire for constant expansion & profits drive the discussions on our economy. Niti Ayog, the Government think tank claim that India is on track to becoming the world

• FTAs and Marginalized Sections | Arun Kumar

  31 May 2025, by Arun Kumar

  A Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between UK and India has been announced. A day later a FTA between US and Britain was announced. India may soon conclude FTAs with US, EU, etc.. A FTA is hailed as win-win for both sides since they are supposed to lead to increased trade between the parties and thereby increase their GDP. These benefits are supposedly a result of the

• Crisis for Street Vendors and Unheard Voices of Post-Covid Recovery in Delhi | V.K.Sridhar

  31 May 2025

  Abstract
  This paper unravels the post Covid-19 impacts on street vendors, highlighting how the pandemic has exacerbated their crisis due to their informal nature of their employment and the lack of official recognition, of their status. Additionally, incomplete surveys of street vendors have resulted in insufficient data, hindering their eligibility for government assistance during the pandemic. Despite their significant contribution to the country

• Kerala Oil Spill Disaster Menaces Marine Species: Need To Ensure Ships Comply With Maritime Norms | P. Sreekumaran

  31 May 2025

  (India Press Agency, May 30, 2025) Thiruvananthapuram: Keralites woke up on Saturday, May 24, 2025 to the horrifying news of a Liberian-flagged cargo ship, MSC Elsa 3, sinking just 27 km away from the State