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  Essential and Fascinating Facts about Indian Elections | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  17 May 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Chambers Book of Indian Election Facts
  by Kingshuk Chatterjee and Surbek Biswas
  Hachette India 2024 Pages: xii + 563; Price: Rs 699 PB ISBN : 9789357318389
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  An estimated 2.8 million of the 80 million potential women voters could not make it to the electoral rolls when India conducted its first general election after independence. The reason? These women, mostly in northern India, wished to register themselves as ‘the (…)

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  The Artist as A Quiet

  17 May 2024

  fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Leela Mukherjee A Guileless Modernist

• Wind Energy Development, Conflict & Resistance | Alexander Dunlap, Mariel Aguilar-Støen

  17 May 2024

  Date: 20 Sep 2019
  Alexander Dunlap talks about his new book Renewing Destruction: Wind Energy Development, Conflict and Resistance with Professor Mariel Aguilar-Støen.
  MAS: I would like to start by asking if you can tell us a little bit about you?
  AD: Ouuuhhh... I am a dirty skateboarder turned academic who now has a post-doctoral position at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo. Where I am proudly a part of the Rural Transformations group, which you (…)

• Disappeared women & girls / Speeches of leading political personalities in the past compared to the twits who rule today | Humra Quraishi

  17 May 2024, by Humra Quraishi

  May 16, 2024 After we are over with celebrating mothers and daughters and sisters and aunts and nieces days, do take out time to read these shockers - shocking details to the missing women and girls in our country.
  Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra are the two states where the maximum number of girls and women disappeared from 2019 to 2021.
  From Madhya Pradesh, 52,119 women in 2019, 52,357 in 2020 and 55,704 in 2021 went missing... In Maharashtra, 63,167 women in 2019, 58,735 in 2020 (…)

• Double Speak by PM Narendra Modi | JP Gadkari

  17 May 2024, by J P Gadkari

  Hardly 48 hours after his so-called "clarification" during an interview with Network 18, and his solemn "vow" where he said "Main Hindu, Musalman nahi karunga yeh Mera sankalp hai, (I won’t play Hindu Muslim card; that is my vow)", Prime Minister Narendra Modi while attacking the Congress has again accused that the party had drawn a plan to "spend 15% of the budget on Muslims" while addressing an election rally in Maharashtra. He said the Congress has a plan to have two separate budgets, (…)

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  Painting: Erich Borchert - Sailors (1932)

  17 May 2024
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  Photo: Devika Rani - Rabindranath Tagore, Himansu Rai in Berlin (May 1931)

  17 May 2024

  via: wikipedia (Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-11643)

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  Caricature: Tribute to Alice Munro | Jayaraj Vellur

  17 May 2024, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Video: Tribute to E P Thompson | Tariq Ali

  17 May 2024

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  Tariq Ali’s half hour captivating tribute to E.P. Thompson by Mark Metcalf - Fighting Talk https://youtu.be/O1bDAEMFyUY?si=De9dRSaLq6OckR9X

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  Documentary: The Boy in the Branch | Lalit Vachani (1993)

  17 May 2024

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  The Boy in the Branch I Lalit Vachani I 1993 by Potato Eaters Collective https://youtu.be/H777tU7-uvk