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  The Art of Collecting Priceless Books | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  8 April 2023

  BOOK REVIEW The Book Beautiful: A Memoir of Collecting Rare and Fine Books
  by Pradeep Sebastian
  Hachette India Pages: 306; Price: Rs 699
  Bengaluru-based Pradeep Sebastian would have remained a simple bibliophile who venerated bookshops all his life until he began came across books the likes of which he had never seen or handled earlier. And so was born, around 2015, a no-doubt costly but immensely satisfying hobby of chasing and collecting rare and fine books in a (…)

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  Photo: Brick making women worker at Rajasthan canal (1989) | Sebatiao Salgado

  8 April 2023
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  Caricature - Tribute to Suneet Chopra | Jayaraj Vellur

  8 April 2023, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Music: The Click Song (1960) | Miriam Makeba

  8 April 2023

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  The Click Song by Miriam Makeba - Topic https://youtu.be/H65t14JqNGo

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  Video: Mission Mind Control (1979) | ABC News

  8 April 2023

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  Mission Mind Control (1979) | feat James Thornwell MKULTRA by Reelblack One https://youtu.be/OxFxLWaTNAM

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Apr 1, 2023

  1 April 2023

  * China through the Lens of Two Doctors and Two Pandemics | Chathukulam and Joseph
  * Big Questions Over India’s ‘Green Hydrogen’ Mission | Singh & Pirani
  * Joint statement by Burma resistance on the situation of Burmese refugees in Manipur, India - 2 March 2023

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Apr 1, 2023

  1 April 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Apr 1, 2023
  BJP, India’s ruling party is in the regular business of using religion for political purposes and setting tensions here and there while targeting minorities. Some of this is made to happen during religious festivals. So, much like last year, this week too a very aggressive and noisy religiopolitical reverie has been on, where gun totting, abuse spewing, angry activists of the Hindutva far right could be seen, some barged into Sufi religious (…)

• The Curious Case of China through the Lens of Two Doctors and Two Pandemics | Jos Chathukulam and Manasi Joseph

  1 April 2023, by Jos Chathukulam, Manasi Joseph

  Abstract
  The 2003 SARS and the latest Covid 19 pandemic underlined the need to adopt a participatory democratic framework in authoritarian regimes like China. This article looks into how the authoritarian political system in a way failed authoritarian states like China when it comes to epidemic and pandemic management through the perspective of two doctors and two pandemics.
  Introduction
  On March 11, 2023, Jiang Yanyong, the Chinese military doctor who exposed the truth regarding the (…)

• Big Questions over India’s ‘Green Hydrogen’ project | Pritam Singh and Simon Pirani

  1 April 2023, by Pritam Singh, Simon PIrani

  There’s so much fanfare around green hydrogen in the ruling establishment and among clean energy hawks, but what is being missed is the problems associated with hydrogen being treated as an alternative to fossil fuels and the viability of the process involved in obtaining green hydrogen.
  Given the climate emergency our planet is facing, with accelerating global heating and devastating bio-diversity loss, any initiative by a government which proclaims its aim as ‘greening the economy’ (…)

• Kashmir’s Trader Forum Polls Fosters Hope for Democracy | K Gireesan

  1 April 2023

  by K Gireesan *
  WHY SHOULD A commercial organisation’s elections be important? It is important because it heralds a change in the political process of democracy suspended in a geo-politically crucial region.
  The socio-economic-political scenario changed in Jammu and Kashmir three years ago when Article 370 was abrogated and the special status of the State was removed by withdrawing Article 35A. It resulted in change of status of Jammu and Kashmir ‘from one State’ into two Union (…)