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  Fault Lines in Indian Federal Union | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  8 October 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  India – A Federal Union of States: Fault Lines, Challenges and Opportunities
  Madhav Godbole
  Konark
  Pages: 358; Price: Rs 800
  ISBN: 978-81-949286-1-4
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  India as a federal union faces a litany of challenges but none as serious as one caused by mixing of religion with politics, a development that has contributed to the ballooning of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). So says former Home Secretary Madhav Godbole, who quit the government after the razing of the Babri (…)

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  Ganguly on Das Gupta. The Indian Civil Service and Indian Foreign Policy, 1923–1961

  8 October 2021

  The Indian Civil Service and Indian Foreign Policy, 1923–1961
  by Amit Das Gupta
  Routledge
  2021 xvi + 314 pp
  ISBN 978-1-138-06424-9
  see also Routledge India
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  Reviewed by Sumit Ganguly (Indiana University)
  Published on H-Asia (June, 2021)
  Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
  There has long been a voluminous literature on India’s postindependence foreign policy. However, at least three recent developments have significantly leavened the (…)

• Conversations With Bapu | Sagari Chhabra

  8 October 2021, by Sagari Chhabra

  ‘You now say consume less For cardiac disease; But there was a time When you made fistfuls of me And the entire Empire trembled in unease.’ I looked down, a glistening grain of salt Was speaking to me From the shores of Dandi And I was listening. ‘Face the assault, Make salt your own way, This flaky Empire will certainly sway.’
  I was inside Hriday Kunj Seated on Bapu’s white cotton bolster, When his staff leaned forward, ‘Why have you stopped walking to the bastis, you imposter?’ ‘My (…)

• Abode of Beauty! | Ajit Das

  8 October 2021

  Where does beauty actually lie?
  If it is in the ‘eyes of the beholder’,
  do the searching eyes find it only
  in the hills, snow capped peaks,
  blooming flowers, flowing streams,
  far away from the quotidian?
  Or does it also dwell in the close,
  intimate shot of the moment
  focussed by mundane niceties
  of the marginalised existence
  that invites for a poetic journey
  to discover the beauty of the banal?
  — Ajit Das

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  Picture: members of the Sky Watchers’ Association, Calcutta - Photo: Amit Datta (The Telegraph, Oct 3, 2021)

  8 October 2021

  File picture of members of the Sky Watchers’ Association, Calcutta Photo: Amit Datta
  The Writing on the Sky by Bitan Sikdar (The Telegraph, 03.10.21) https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/the-writing-on-the-sky/cid/1833175

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  Photo from 1950s of three well known Hindi writers: Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Sumitra Nandan Pant and Ramdhari Singh Dinkar

  8 October 2021
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  Caricature: Congratulations to Abdulrazak Gurnah for the Nobel Prize | Jayaraj Vellur

  8 October 2021, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Video: This is what a year of climate disasters looked like in 2021

  8 October 2021

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  This is what a year of climate disasters looked like by Channel 4 News https://youtu.be/xeY9miTqzEA

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  Video: Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing on Afghanistan Withdrawal

  8 October 2021

  [28 Sept 2021]
  US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Joint Chiefs Chair General Mark Milley, and U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander General Kenneth McKenzie testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee at a hearing on the Afghanistan withdrawal.

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  Farmers Rap - Young Daku

  8 October 2021

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  Farmers Rap - Young Daku by YoungDaku https://youtu.be/uv2xKlg1n6w