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  Lala Lajpat Rai: A Hindu leader who was secular at heart | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  14 June 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
  __0__ Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood
  by Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav
  Penguin/Viking
  ISBN: 9780670094073 Pages: xliii + 748; Price: Rs 1,299
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  Who was the real Lala Lajpat Rai? A veteran Congress leader and a leading star of the Indian freedom movement? Fiercely anti-British and who died due to grievous injuries he sustained in a street protest? A Hindu Mahasabha leader who advocated (…)

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  Review of Timothy Lorek’s Timothy, Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia | Javier Puente

  14 June 2024

  BOOK REVIEW
  Review by Javier Puente
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  Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia. Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges by Timothy Lorek
  University of North Carolina Press 2023. xxii + 317 pp (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-7382-0
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  In September 2016, Colombia’s government and the leadership of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) achieved the unthinkable. After a four-year series of conversations and negotiations, President Juan Manuel Santos (…)

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  Photo: Statue of Acharya Narendra Deva (1889-1956) , India s leading Marxist Socialist, at the Khadi Bhandar, Baccha Park, Meerut. 11 June 2024

  14 June 2024

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  Poster: Women return from Work and Start working Again | Double Burden of Women’s Labour

  14 June 2024
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  Podcast: Value In Motion | Beverley Best & Aaron Benanav

  14 June 2024

  VersoBooks · Value In Motion | Beverley Best & Aaron Benanav

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  Documentary: Nothing Grows Forever: The lessons to learn from nature

  14 June 2024

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  Nothing Grows Forever: The lessons to learn from nature | Dying Earth: E7 | Featured Documentary by Al Jazeera English https://youtu.be/qf0lZ5nLYv4?si=YAM-eXE-cWmkyszd

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  Music: Ney: Kianoush Khalilian - Constantinople Concert, Kiya Tabassian, Montreal, Canada, "Breathing"

  14 June 2024

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  Ney: Kianoush Khalilian - Constantinople Concert, Kiya Tabassian, Montreal, Canada, "Breathing" by Kianoush Khalilian https://youtu.be/vDKwnoxLA2c?si=O6NjzMRM9nE5-FU4

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jun 8, 2024

  8 June 2024

  * The climb down of Humpty Dumpty what a relief! | Vijay Kumar
  * India bestirred, a political era ends | L K Sharma
  * Decoding the Momentous Significance of the Lok Sabha Elections Verdict, 2024 | Gilbert Sebastian
  * West Bengal Poll Verdict | Arup Kumar Sen
  * Eugen Sandow was the poster boy of physical culture

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 8, 2024

  8 June 2024

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 8, 2024
  Pollsters, media and propagandists were all wrong on the possible outcome of India’s 2024 General election. Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) did not get a parliamentary majority alone but has the required numbers to form a government via a new version of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition. Mr Modi lost much ground and won his seat in Varanasi by a reduced margin. Twenty of his top ministers lost their elections. All (…)

• Modi’s grip on power slips with resounding personal defeat | Bharat Bhushan

  8 June 2024, by Bharat Bhushan

  June 5, 2024
  The people of India have rejected Narendra Modi’s majoritarian Hindu politics. Even if Modi’s coalition returns him to power, his message has to change.
  Despite his reluctance to concede defeat, the results of the Indian general election are a major setback for outgoing Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His party, the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), has failed to secure a majority on its own.
  The BJP has heavily lost ground in its traditional stronghold states of Uttar Pradesh, (…)