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• Book Review: A Pioneering Study on Tamil Migration | M R Narayan Swamy

  17 February 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Tamil Migrants: A Demographic, Social and Economic Analysis by S. Irudaya Rajan, Bernard D’Sami; Samuel Asir Raj, P. Sivakumar
  Orient BlackSwan 2021 Pages: 312; Price: Rs 1,095 ISBN: 9789354421266
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  From the time of the imperial Cholas, Tamils have been migrating to distant shores for reasons of trade. Their destinations included Ceylon, Burma, Malaya, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. British colonial rule led to more migration, this time as men and women from the poorest (…)

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  Kirschenbaum on Oleksa Drachewych, Ian McKay, eds. Left Transnationalism

  17 February 2022

  Reviewed by Lisa Kirschenbaum *
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  Left Transnationalism: The Communist International and the National, Colonial, and Racial Questions
  Oleksa Drachewych, Ian McKay, eds.
  Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press
  2020. 448 pp. $37.95 (paper)
  ISBN 978-0-7735-5873-1.
  Published on H-Diplo (November, 2020)
  In 2017, centennial reevaluations of the October Revolution often emphasized the event’s lasting global impacts.[1] Left Transnationalism, published in 2019, coincides with (…)

• Biden dials back belligerence toward Russia | M K Bhadrakumar

  17 February 2022, by M K Bhadrakumar

  Feb. 13, 2022
  The White House readout of US President Joe Biden’s conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday conveys the impression that its leitmotif was Washington’s threat of sanctions against Russia if it attacked Ukraine. But it is a hackneyed message that wouldn’t have taken more than a minute or two to convey. Yet, the conversation lasted “a bit over an hour.”
  The Kremlin readout is still to be released, but Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov gave a briefing to the (…)

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  Caricature: Sandhya Mukherjee (1931-2022) | Jayaraj Vellur

  17 February 2022
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  Artwork: Mother and Child (14 Feb 2022) | Sagari Chhabra

  17 February 2022, by Sagari Chhabra
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  Photo of Che Guevara being interviewed for All India Radio by Bhanumathy Rao (july 1959)

  17 February 2022

  K.P. Bhanumathy while interviewing Che Guevara. Photo by P.N. Sharma (July 1959)

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  Advertisement: Bombay Cinema Stars taking CSA the Czech Airlines for the Karlovy Vary Festival of July 1960

  17 February 2022

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  Video: Mercedes Sosa - Gracias A La Vida

  17 February 2022

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  Video: Edward Said’s “The Idea of Empire” feat Eqbal Ahmad - 1993 Arena Series

  17 February 2022

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  Edward Said’s "The Idea of Empire" feat Eqbal Ahmad - 1993 Arena Series. by The Eqbal Ahmad Project https://vimeo.com/showcase/2649207/video/414226354

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Feb 12, 2022

  12 February 2022

  * The Legacy of Lata Mangeshkar in Polarised Times | Vijay Kumar [12062]
  * Whither India’s Sovereign Green Bonds | Kavaljit Singh
  * Rent-Seeking Culture in Universities in Kerala | Chathukulam & Joseph
  * Interlinking Rivers — History And Analysis | S G Vombatkere