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  Photo: Satyajit Ray and Marlon Brando in Delhi, 1967

  19 August 2022
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  International Arms Sales - Sellers and Buyers - Interactive Map | 360info with SIPRI data

  19 August 2022

  This map on International Arms Transfers is reproduced here under a creative commons license

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  Video Recording: 75 Years of Independence - Remembering 1947 | Irfan Habib, Romila Thapar and Harbans Mukhia

  19 August 2022

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  75 Years of Independence: Remembering 1947 | Irfan Habib, Romila Thapar and Harbans Mukhia by Karwaan Heritage https://youtu.be/oUmmwpt7tLo

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  Music: Peaux by Trio Xenakis

  19 August 2022

  Trio Xenakis – peaux, from Xenakis révolution. Le bâtisseur du son, (documentary/biography, 2022, 56’, in French w/ French, Italian, English, Spanish, and Polish sub, and German dubbed), Directed by Stéphane Ghez, Arte / Cinétévé, 2022 Play
  TRIOXENAKIS peaux by Vivian Daval https://vimeo.com/674356718

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Aug 6 & Aug 13, 2022 [Independence Day Special]

  13 August 2022

  * 75 Years of Independent India | Anil Nauriya
  * Tribute: P M Bhargava - an excerpt from his biography | Chandana Chakrabarti
  * 10 Year-old Visionary Social Experiment in Rojava Under Threat - A Letter
  * Music: Bumpin’ On Sunset | Wes Montgomery

• 75 Years of Independent India | Anil Nauriya

  13 August 2022, by Anil Nauriya

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  The Soviet Union lasted less than 75 years even if reckoned from 1917.
  Independent India has now crossed that threshold and that is a reason for satisfaction.
  The Indian experiment has been no less bold than the Soviet if only because the challenges it has faced have been at least equally profound.
  Both Russia and India were peasant-based economies when they started out on their new journey, Russia’s in 1917 and India’s in 1947. India was under a full-scale colonialism, alien and (…)

• Indian Economy at 75: Trapped in a Borrowed Development Strategy | Arun Kumar

  13 August 2022, by Arun Kumar

  Introduction
  India at 75 is a mixed bag of development and missed opportunities. The country has achieved much since Independence but a lot remains to be done to become a developed society. The pandemic has exposed India’s deficiencies in stark terms. The uncivilized conditions of living of a vast majority of the citizens became apparent. According to a Report of Azim Premji University, 90% of the workers said during the lockdown that they did not have enough savings to buy one week of (…)

• Excerpts from the 1981 novel ’Midnight’s Children’ by Salman Rushdie

  13 August 2022

  EXCERPTS FROM Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981) which delves into the end of British colonial rule in India, Independence, and the tragic partition of 1947
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  I was bom in the city of Bombay... once upon a time. No, that won’t do, there’s no getting away from the date: I was born in Doctor Narlikar’s Nursing Home on August 15th, 1947. And the time? The time matters, too. Well then: at night. No, it’s important to be more... On the stroke of midnight, as a matter of fact. (…)

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  Prof P M Bhargava, scientist and renaissance man - an excerpt from his biography | Chandana Chakrabarti

  13 August 2022, by Chandana Chakrabarti

  A tribute to Dr P M Bhargava (22nd Feb 1928 to 1st Aug 2017) - public intellectual, biologist, institution builder, administrator, crusader for scientific temper, and a connoisseur of art on his 5th death anniversary
  (Excerpt from Breaking Boundaries a biography of Dr PM Bhargava by Chandana Chakrabarti, under publication)
  The year 2017 saw the loss of several stalwarts of Indian science who have not only contributed to science but have led from the front in the propagation of scientific (…)

• Flagging independence albeit disengaging Gandhi | Teresa Joseph

  13 August 2022

  by Teresa Joseph *
  Abstract
  The official objectives behind the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign have been clearly spelt out as invoking the feeling of patriotism and promoting awareness about the National Flag. The media overdrive and the exhilaration and exuberance being witnessed as part of the campaign requires some introspection on the issues involved. In the larger context of the historical trajectory of the flag, this article examines the values in effect being promoted through the Har (…)