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• BJP’s Electoral Ascendancy: Politics of Populism | Nayakara Veeresha

  8 April 2022, by Nayakara Veeresha

  by Nayakara Veeresha *
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  The Bharatiya Janata Party (hereafter BJP) has returned to power in the recently concluded assembly elections in four out of five states. The political analysts and the post poll surveys have indicated that the BJP’s electoral mandate was given for the development, governance and welfare. No doubt, the policies of social welfare and target based programmes of the BJP have played a key role in grabbing the voter’s attention; however the point of concern (…)

• My 50 Years as an Independent Writer | Bharat Dogra

  8 April 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  I have just completed 50 years as an independent writer. This is no news for a world busy with big things, but democracy needs truly independent, unbiased journalists and in this context my experiences of five decades have some relevance.
  At the more obvious level, I could contribute about ten thousand articles/reports, and four hundred books and booklets in Hindi and English, apart from 70 short stories, two novellas and about a 100 poems and songs. I could maintain continuity in this (…)

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  Review of Brockmann, Sophie, The Science of Useful Nature in Central America

  8 April 2022

  Reviewed by Paul Ramirez (Northwestern University) __0__
  The Science of Useful Nature in Central America
  by Sophie Brockmann
  Cambridge University Press 2020. xii + 267 pp. $99.99 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-108-42123-2 __0__
  In 1772, the creole polymath José Antonio Alzate traveled outside of Mexico City to investigate the effects of a typhus outbreak. As he later reported in an issue of his literary journal, his reconnaissance included an interview with a “ladino” resident, who suggested (…)

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  Cartoon: The ever expanding definition of an anti-national | Hemant Morparia

  8 April 2022
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  A Book for Gautam Navlakha in Taloja jail - Illustration by Orijit Sen

  8 April 2022

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  "The Bombay High Court on Monday, 4 April, labelled as "comical" the refusal by Taloja jail authorities to hand over a book by noted humourist PG Wodehouse to Elgar Parishad-accused Gautam Navlakha, citing a "security risk". [. . .]
  Read More at: Jail Denies [PJ] Wodehouse Book to Navlakha Citing ’Security’, HC Labels it ’Comical’ https://www.thequint.com/news/law/elgar-parishad-accused-gautam-navlakha-denied-book-jail-high-court-labels-it-comical

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  Video: John Bellamy Foster - The Return of Nature

  8 April 2022

  John Bellamy Foster gives a 30-minute presentation about his book The Return of Nature

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  Music: Veryovka Ukrainian Folk Choir

  8 April 2022

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  Veryovka Ukrainian Folk Choir – Український народний хор ім. г. верьовки by Dystyn https://youtu.be/P-wILthmwIo
  Veryovka Ukrainian Folk Choir Art Director: Anatoly Avdievsky
  Oh, I’m so pretty (Urkainian folk song) A small willow board (arr. by A. Avdievsky) Oh, that violin didn’t play (arr. by V. Samiylenko) Lullaby (arr. by A. Avdievsky) The barrow by the Volga (I. Shamo – D. Lutsenko) My field (V. Filipenko – L. Reva) A WREATH OF UKRAINIAN FOLK SONGS: Grey (…)

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, April 2, 2022

  1 April 2022

  * Economic weapons of mass destruction | Raghuram Rajan
  * Rabindranath Tagore, Rural Crisis and recovering Community | Karli Srinivasulu
  * Jinnah Lives Again, What An Irony? | TJS George
  * ECI would do well to count 100% VVPAT slips | Pandey, Singh, and Singh

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 2, 2022

  1 April 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 2, 2022
  According to the World Health Organization there is a new wave of cases of Covid-19 of the now dominant BA.2 subvariant of the virus, spiking in South Korea, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Germany, the Netherlands, France and Canada, China, Ireland, New Zeeland. This is happening at a time when in many regions of the world including in India the mandatory public health & containment measures and social restrictions (such as wearing of masks, (…)

• Economic weapons of mass destruction | Raghuram Rajan

  1 April 2022

  by Raghuram Rajan *
  War is horrific, no matter how it is waged. Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine, with its scenes of Ukrainian civilians being murdered or driven from their homes as refugees, undoubtedly had to be opposed. In addition to supplying Ukraine with military weapons, governments around the world also have deployed economic weapons against Russia — a dangerous nuclear power. Russia, an economic midget relative to its military power, may still lash out by expanding the range (…)