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• June 24 Talks Between Centre and the Kashmiri political leaders? | Humra Quraishi

  25 June 2021, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS - 23 June 2021
  Humra Quraishi
  It seems a bizarre U-turn or term it as another of those political moves! The same group of the Kashmiri political figures who were not just labelled “the Gupkar gang” and were also kept under detention and house arrest for several months at a stretch, are now invited to hold talks with the establishment on 24 June, in New Delhi.
  As I’m filing this column on Wednesday, 23 June, that is one day before the talks so one can only come up with this (…)

• Waiting to be in the “Bird Box”? | Jeevesh Gupta

  25 June 2021

  We walked and We protested, We raised placards and We pleaded, We were mocked at and we prayed, We shouted, we howled but it fell on deaf ears, Development is the key to growth, No one had the answer when asked, But Who will eat the fruits of blowth?
  Few were seeing it coming but most were busy winning, Yesterday we were fighting pollution and today we are fighting corona, we are not allowed to touch, tomorrow we will not be allowed to see, Today we cannot step out, tomorrow we might not (…)

• Breathe For India | S Maria Reagan

  25 June 2021, by S. Maria Reagan

  It’s autumn
  Human lives will spill
  It’s autumn.
  Who to write for? : For those who died this morning?
  Who to write for? : For those who are going to die every morning?
  Who to write for? : For those who wander for oxygen?
  Who to write for? : A woman carrying her dead husband on her lap and crying?
  Who to write for? : For people who put a damp cloth on their stomach?
  Who to write for? : For useless government?
  Who to write for? : For The begging politician?
  The noise of death is (…)

• Mussoorie Bypass Tunnel is Expensive, but Its Ecological Costs Will Be Even Higher | Bharat Dogra

  25 June 2021, by Bharat Dogra

  Many people cherish memories of visiting Mussoorie ( located bear Dehradun, capital of Uttarakhand ), even called the Queen of Hill Stations in India. The famous hill resort houses the L.B.S. IAS Academy where the country’s future top civil servants are trained. The Mussorie hills divide the Ganga and Yamuna river systems which have their origin in Western Himalayan region and hence water aquifers here a wider ecological importance which extends much beyond the local region. The limestone (…)

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  Photo: Ismat Chughtai with Majrooh Sultanpuri, Ali Sardar Jafri and Kaifi Azmi in Hyderabad [unknown date]

  25 June 2021
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  Photo of the bill announcing the Dec 1857 play in London in response to the Indian Mutiny

  25 June 2021

  In Christmas week 1857 in London .... there was a play being performed in London at the Astley’s Amphitheatre, December 1857 it covered the Indian Uprising or ‘Indian Mutiny’, the relief of the siege of Cawnpore (Kanpur) and its aftermath, and finally the assault on Delhi and its capture by British troops. These events took place from May to September 1857. The play opened in London on 25 November 1857, just two months later. It portrayed these events, as both popular entertainment and a (…)

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  Tribute to Milkha Singh | Cartoon by Jayaraj Vellur

  25 June 2021, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Tribute to Michel Foucault | Cartoon by Jayaraj Vellur

  25 June 2021, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Book Review: Mugloo on Bose and Jalal’s Kashmir and the future of South Asia

  25 June 2021

  Reviewed by Anayat Ullah Mugloo
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  Kashmir and the future of South Asia
  (ed) Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal
  published in 2021 | 162 Pages
  ISBN: 9781003119357.
  by Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
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  South Asian politics is splintered by diverse narratives jockeying for position! To a certain extent, it is discernible that South Asia has remained a hotspot for militarisation, violence, conflict, and resistance, more importantly since decolonization. President Bill (…)

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  Masters on Rajan, Sedrez, eds. The Great Convergence: An Environmental History of BRICS

  25 June 2021

  Reviewed by Lesley Masters (University of Derby)
  S. Ravi Rajan, Lise Sedrez, eds. The Great Convergence: An Environmental History of BRICS.
  New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xix + 442 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-947937-5.
  This edited volume presents a detailed account of the emerging field of environmental history within the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) states. While Jim O’Neill’s identification of these emerging states[1] may have been born from (…)