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• Book Excerpt: ‘Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam

  1 April 2023

  Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam
  by Mitul Baruah
  Routledge
  2022 | 170 pages
  ISBN 9780367509774
  __0__ Slow Disaster draws on fieldwork in Majuli, believed to be the largest river island in the world, located in the middle of the Brahmaputra River. Unfolding in a slow, incremental manner, floods and erosion reduced Majuli’s landmass from 1,255 sq km to about 421 sq km over the 20th century; rendered over 10,000 families (…)

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  Afghans the West Betrayed | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  1 April 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
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  Escape from Kabul: The Inside Story by Levison Wood and Geraint Jones Hodder & Stoughton 2023 Pages: 340; Price: Rs 899 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1399718126 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1399718127
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  The Americans led a brutal war in Afghanistan for two long and bloody decades, vowing to usher in democracy despite the terrible failures in Vietnam and Iraq. And like earlier, the Americans one day decided that enough was enough. But the military pullout, which was long in the (…)

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  Tribute to Vivan Sundaram | Jayaraj Vellur

  1 April 2023, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Cartoon: How to Idea for Population Control | Nala Ponnappa

  1 April 2023
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  Photo: Govt of India Notification of 1923 prohibited import of publications of International Working Men’s Association

  1 April 2023

  on 24 March 1923, the Government of India prohibited the import into India of any publications issued by the International Working Men’s Association

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  Audio: W.H. Auden Recites His 1937 Poem, ‘As I Walked Out One Evening

  1 April 2023

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  Wystan Hugh Auden - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937) by GhostOfRupertBrooke https://youtu.be/0q__Z185H8I

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  Music: Si tu vois ma mère (Slow) · Sidney Bechet by Claude Luter et Son Orchestre (1952)

  1 April 2023

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  Si tu vois ma mère (Slow) by Sidney Bechet - Topic https://youtu.be/NyDz4Okg-Hs

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Mar 25, 2023

  25 March 2023

  * India: Lurches Closer to “Opposition-Mukt Democracy”!? | Sukla Sen
  * Saffron Clad Babas in Orissa | Radhakanta Barik
  * Regenerating The Forest Ecosystem: Few Concerns | Suranjita Ray
  * Budgets 2023-24 of Punjab and Haryana | Sher Singh Sangwan
  * After Macron’s pension reform, all eyes on France’s trade unions | Michel Wieviorka

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Mar 25, 2023

  25 March 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 25, 2023
  Modi Government’s daily dose of ‘kitch’ self-advertising has gotten louder and bigger over the past eight years. The North Korean leader may soon be tempted to send his publicists to Delhi for a south-south cooperation agreement. Billboards with a photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Govt advertising sit atop practically every gas station, bus stop, trains station, airport, metro network, outside public toilets, and on paid frontpage (…)

• India: Lurches Closer to “Opposition-Mukt Democracy”!? | Sukla Sen

  25 March 2023, by Sukla Sen

  by Sukla Sen
  While all eyes were riveted on the unfolding tumultuous scenes in the ongoing Budget session of the Indian Parliament over the unrelenting opposition demands for a discussion on and a JPC probe into the Hindenburg report concerning Adani group of companies accusing the group of brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud — also specifically covering the alleged Modi-Adani nexus — and the persistent demands of the BJP MPs blocking proceedings in both the houses demanding (…)