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  Mapping India’s Sufi World — With a New Twist | M R Narayan Swamy

  16 December 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
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  In Search of the Divine:
  Living Histories of Sufism in India
  by Rana Safvi
  Hachette India
  Pages: 415; Price: Rs 599 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9393701113
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  Orthodox Muslims may look down upon Sufism as blasphemy but writer-scholar Rana Safvi asserts that Prophet Muhammud was the first Sufi and the first link of all Sufi orders or silsilas.
  In a claim that could raise the hackles of many Muslims, Safvi says that it is from the Prophet’s own behaviour that Sufis (…)

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  Borders Are Not Real | G Narasimha Raghavan

  16 December 2022, by G Narasimha Raghavan

  Book Review
  Border Nation
  A Story of Migration
  by Leah Cowan
  Pluto Press, London
  2021 ISBN 978 0 7453 4107 1 (Paperback) __0__
  The UK’s border regulations and migration conundrums take a heavy verbal beating from Leah Cowan. The book Border Nation, a very challenging read, rich with examples, useful references and contemporary allusions, is Cowan’s first book. In this book, Cowan, a British citizen and former Politics Editor at gal-dem (an online magazine and media platform run (…)

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  Photo: Jawaharlal Nehru with V.K. Krishna Menon and Indira Gandhi in London

  16 December 2022
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  Caricature Tribute to Dominique Lapierre | Jayaraj Vellur

  16 December 2022, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Video: Environmental History Journal Roundtable - Nature and the New Right

  16 December 2022

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  Environmental History Journal Roundtable: Nature and the New Right by Environment and Humanities https://youtu.be/C9tPxawIn5g

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  Film: Soy Cuba | Mikhail Kalatozov (1964)

  16 December 2022

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  I am Cuba | DRAMA | FULL MOVIE by Mosfilm https://youtu.be/Y3HpI898dwg

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Dec 3, Dec 10 2022

  2 December 2022

  * Poverty, Inequality has risen in the Modi Years | K N Ninan
  * Misplaced Claims of India Being the Mother of Democracy | S N Sahu
  * Somalia’s Long Journey from Prosperity to Hunger | Bharat Dogra
  * Albert Einstein on God, in his letter to Erik Gutkind (1954)
  * Concern over Death Penalty for protestors in Iran | IDPD

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 3, & Dec 10, 2022

  2 December 2022

  Letter to the Readers, December 3, December 10, 2022
  The big COP27 Climate jamboree with its 30,000 jet set delegates just ended in the Egyptian beach resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh (otherwise popular with Russian tourists). Climate and civil society activists at the conference faced some intimidation, harassment from the heavy handed Egyptian security and secret service, leading to a statement from prominent UN special rapporteurs to the Human Rights Council. The conference was marked by (…)

• BJP Wins Gujarat But Loses Himachal Pradesh! | Nilofar Suhrawardy

  2 December 2022, by Nilofar Suhrawardy

  [article updated on Dec 10, 2022]
  Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s victory in Gujarat Assembly Elections in view of its defeat in Himachal Pradesh as well as polls of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) certainly send contrary messages about this party’s hold in these three domains. While BJP has returned to power in Gujarat, it has failed to in Himachal Pradesh and has lost MCD polls after around 15 years. As expected, numerous speculations are being voiced about these election results. (…)

• Poverty, Inequality has risen in the Modi Years | K N Ninan

  2 December 2022

  by K N Ninan *
  Despite becoming the fifth largest economy in the world, India continues to have the largest concentration of the world’s poor estimated at 159.8 to 192.8 million people in 2020 using the international poverty line of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) $ 2.15 as per a recent World Bank report (World Bank 2022).
  Official estimates of poverty and inequality in India are based on the results of the household Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) of the National Sample Survey (NSS). (…)