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  Review of Brockmann, Sophie, The Science of Useful Nature in Central America

  8 April 2022

  Reviewed by Paul Ramirez (Northwestern University) __0__
  The Science of Useful Nature in Central America
  by Sophie Brockmann
  Cambridge University Press 2020. xii + 267 pp. $99.99 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-108-42123-2 __0__
  In 1772, the creole polymath José Antonio Alzate traveled outside of Mexico City to investigate the effects of a typhus outbreak. As he later reported in an issue of his literary journal, his reconnaissance included an interview with a “ladino” resident, who suggested (…)

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  Cartoon: The ever expanding definition of an anti-national | Hemant Morparia

  8 April 2022
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  A Book for Gautam Navlakha in Taloja jail - Illustration by Orijit Sen

  8 April 2022

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  "The Bombay High Court on Monday, 4 April, labelled as "comical" the refusal by Taloja jail authorities to hand over a book by noted humourist PG Wodehouse to Elgar Parishad-accused Gautam Navlakha, citing a "security risk". [. . .]
  Read More at: Jail Denies [PJ] Wodehouse Book to Navlakha Citing ’Security’, HC Labels it ’Comical’ https://www.thequint.com/news/law/elgar-parishad-accused-gautam-navlakha-denied-book-jail-high-court-labels-it-comical

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  Video: John Bellamy Foster - The Return of Nature

  8 April 2022

  John Bellamy Foster gives a 30-minute presentation about his book The Return of Nature

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  Music: Veryovka Ukrainian Folk Choir

  8 April 2022

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  Veryovka Ukrainian Folk Choir – Український народний хор ім. г. верьовки by Dystyn https://youtu.be/P-wILthmwIo
  Veryovka Ukrainian Folk Choir Art Director: Anatoly Avdievsky
  Oh, I’m so pretty (Urkainian folk song) A small willow board (arr. by A. Avdievsky) Oh, that violin didn’t play (arr. by V. Samiylenko) Lullaby (arr. by A. Avdievsky) The barrow by the Volga (I. Shamo – D. Lutsenko) My field (V. Filipenko – L. Reva) A WREATH OF UKRAINIAN FOLK SONGS: Grey (…)

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, April 2, 2022

  1 April 2022

  * Economic weapons of mass destruction | Raghuram Rajan
  * Rabindranath Tagore, Rural Crisis and recovering Community | Karli Srinivasulu
  * Jinnah Lives Again, What An Irony? | TJS George
  * ECI would do well to count 100% VVPAT slips | Pandey, Singh, and Singh

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 2, 2022

  1 April 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 2, 2022
  According to the World Health Organization there is a new wave of cases of Covid-19 of the now dominant BA.2 subvariant of the virus, spiking in South Korea, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Germany, the Netherlands, France and Canada, China, Ireland, New Zeeland. This is happening at a time when in many regions of the world including in India the mandatory public health & containment measures and social restrictions (such as wearing of masks, (…)

• Economic weapons of mass destruction | Raghuram Rajan

  1 April 2022

  by Raghuram Rajan *
  War is horrific, no matter how it is waged. Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine, with its scenes of Ukrainian civilians being murdered or driven from their homes as refugees, undoubtedly had to be opposed. In addition to supplying Ukraine with military weapons, governments around the world also have deployed economic weapons against Russia — a dangerous nuclear power. Russia, an economic midget relative to its military power, may still lash out by expanding the range (…)

• The Political Killings in Kerala: Is it the ’Banality of Evil’? | Jos Chathukulam and Manasi Joseph

  1 April 2022, by Jos Chathukulam, Manasi Joseph

  by Jos Chathukulam and Manasi Joseph
  Abstract
  At a time when gruesome political killings and violence are increasing at an alarming rate in Kerala, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is gearing up for the 23rd Party Congress in Kannur from April 6 — April 10, 2022. The cold-blooded murders in the name of hatred and politics should end. Similarly those who justify the murders on the lines of ‘Banality of Evil Thesis’ by Hannah Arendt should understand that when butchered human lives (…)

• Rabindranath Tagore, Rural Crisis and Recovering Community: Relevance of a Legacy for Neo-Liberal India | Karli Srinivasulu

  1 April 2022, by Karli Srinivasulu

  by Karli Srinivasulu *
  There are striking similarities between the rural life in the late colonial India that is in the inter-war period and today’s liberalising India. Rabindranath Tagore living in close contact with the rural Bengal and intellectually reflecting on the socio-economic life displayed an unusual sensitivity to the rural crisis that engulfed the agrarian and rural artisan communities. This led to certain concrete initiatives like Sriniketan with the aim of educating the (…)