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  Video: Stories My Country Told Me - Eqbal Ahmad on the Grand Trunk Road (BBC 1 - 1996)

  15 October 2022

  produced by BBC One | 1996
  Produced and Directed: H.O. Nazareth
  Executive Producer: Anthony Wall
  Film Editor: Jon Whitson
  Cameramen: Ranjan Kamath and Arif Ali
  Original Music Composed and Performed by" The Fratelli Brothers

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  [bleu]Table of Contents - Mainstream, Sept 17 - Oct 8, 2022 - Bumper issue [/bleu]

  16 September 2022

  * Uniqueness of Habib Tanvir’s theatre | Javed Malick
  * Pakistan - India: Recent Floods and Climate Change | Soma Marla
  * Ecosystem-Based Approach to Build Climate Resilience | KN Ninan
  * Bill Gates and Techno-fix Delusions | M V Ramana and Cassandra Jeffery

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 17 - Oct 8, 2022

  16 September 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 17 – Oct 8, 2022
  India is a very diverse multilingual society and whatever their location most people in their daily lives seem to have a real familiarity with more than one language, irrespective of what the law says. The Constitution of India reflects this reality with 22 languages having formal recognition in its eighth schedule. Every now and then political tensions erupt over the question of language of instruction, official language of (…)

• Ecosystem-Based Approach to Build Climate Resilience | KN Ninan

  16 September 2022

  by K N Ninan
  Abstract: Climate change poses a great challenge to governments, societies, and entities. Finding ways to transit to a climate resilient economy and society therefore assumes great importance. Evidence collated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) point to an increasing trend in global temperatures and sea levels, increasing frequency and intensity of disasters and extreme weather events. These will have adverse short and long-term impacts on ecosystems, (…)

• Banks NPA Problem & NDA Government’s Loan Write-Offs | Pranjit Agarwala

  16 September 2022

  by Pranjit Agarwala
  Recently the Union Minister of State for Finance Dr. Bhagwad Karad informed the Rajya Sabha that from 2017/18 to 2021/22 the NDA government had written-off a whopping Rs. 9,91,640 crores of bad bank loans. This is over four times what the UPA government wrote-off. The UPA government wrote-off Rs. 2,20,328 crores from 2004 to 2014. Apparently the NDA government has been indulging in a bad loans write-off spree. In banking parlance such loans are known as (…)

• What is the Civilization State? | Muzban Jal

  16 September 2022

  by Muzban Jal
  In the last few years there have been voices heard that murmur of what is called the “civilization state”. From philosophers, defense experts, and vice chancellors posing as public intellectuals, paeans are being sung to this theme. But what this exactly is, we are not told.
  While very loosely what is meant by the civilization state is rooting politics in general—including the Constitutions of nations—on civilizational “essences”, what is left out from imagination is that (…)

• Uniqueness of Habib Tanvir’s theatre | Javed Malick

  16 September 2022

  by Javed Malick
  The folk component and flavor in Habib Tanvir’s theatre was too obvious and unmistakable for anyone to miss. But what was often not appreciated sufficiently was that he did not try to revive or resurrect any specific form of the folk play but developed a categorically modern form of Indian theatre with traditional flavour. For, what distinguished Tanvir’s theatre from that of his contemporaries was precisely this combination of Modernity and tradition.
  Tanvir was an (…)

• For a dialogue of life | John Dayal

  16 September 2022, by John Dayal

  Dr S Y Qureshi, former Chief Election Commissioner, celebrated author of a celebrated book that explains with great clarity that the rate of growth of the Muslim population in India, is now on the downward trend as people, specially women, get more educated. The same has happened in the population of other communities.
  It is only in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, where social indicators are still in the red, that the size of the average family is higher than the national norm – for (…)

• Communalism in Leicester: Who is to be Blamed? | Nilofar Suhrawardy

  16 September 2022, by Nilofar Suhrawardy

  Undeniably, Indo-Pak cricket matches are viewed by citizens of both countries with great passion. There is no denying Indo-Pak enmity still prevails at various levels and their cricket matches are seen by certain sections as virtually equivalent to a war between the two countries. The Indo-Pak cricket match leading reportedly to tension in Leicester (United Kingdom) was held on August 28 in Dubai (UAE). It was watched in most parts of world, including Indian sub-continent. Leicester has been (…)

• Pakistan - India: Recent Floods and Climate Change | Soma Marla

  16 September 2022, by Soma S. Marla

  Enormous havoc and misery caused by recent floods in Bengaluru, Pakistan and Assam are not only natural disasters but also due to climate change. Overexploitation of urban land and water resources by greedy private real estate developers perhaps the chief cause of floods. Media relentlessly focused on flooded upscale villas, their swanky automobiles of super rich in flooded Bengaluru, and totally ignored the suffering of millions of poor and middle-class slum dwellers.
  For the floods, (…)