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Crime, Grime and Gumption: Case Files of an IPS Officer by O.P. Singh
Penguin Random House 2024 235 pages; Price: Rs 499 ISBN: 9780143464167 235pages; Price: Rs 499 __0__
It is indeed a remarkable personal triumph when a 14-year-old who goes to a police station in a rural part of Bihar and is told to return home to fetch writing paper if he wants to report a theft in his house eventually becomes the police chief of India’s most (…)
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Toxic Exposures: Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States
by Susan L Smith
Rutgers University Press Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series 2017. 209 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8135-8609-0
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Table of Contents - Mainstream, Feb 3, 2024
3 February 2024* Hindutva Fascism and the Future of Indian Politics | Kobad Ghandy
* Consequences of Ram Mandir Inauguration by the Prime Minister | Vijay Kumar
* 2024 Interim Budget - Statement by All India Kisan Sabha
* India’s 2024 elections may bring a new political epoch | Robin Jeffrey -
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 3, 2024
3 February 2024Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, February 3, 2024
Multiple fronts are targetted simultaneously by the machines of the right-wing Narendra Modi Govt and its auxiliaries in society on a 24/7 basis. The 2024 National election campaign by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for a third term for the Modi Government, is in full swing; The Hindutva project for a Ram temple in Ayodhya has mostly achieved its goal —it was inaugurated on 22 January with the Prime Minister leading the show clearly to (…) -
Nitish Kumar’s Political hoppings and the INDIA bloc | P S Jayaramu
3 February 2024, by P S JayaramuNitish Kumar’s political hoppings and his resumption of the Chief Minister’s position for the 9th time with the support of the BJP is the hottest news in Indian politics after the consecration of the Ram Lalla temple in Ayodhya. Writings have emerged in the last few days about Nitish Kumar’s actions, some calling it abrupt, with some others saying it was in the offing for quite sometime, tracing it to the handshake he had with PM Modi at the G-20 summit meeting in New Delhi, where the ice (…)
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Hindutva Fascism and the Future of Indian Politics | Kobad Ghandy
3 February 2024, by Kobad Ghandy(Paper Presented at a Conference in Trichy (Tamilnadu) on January 7th 2024)
In much of India, Hindutva has got into the bloodstream of not only the middle classes but even of the lower classes/castes including sections of Dalits. Let alone left thought even the democratic thoughts of Ambedkar seem to be on the back burner. Whichever party is in power, even at the state level, they seem more involved in appeasing the Hindutva sentiment with soft Hindutva than countering it with democratic (…)