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• Questions About New U.S. Plant Engineering | Martha Rosenberg

  1 October 2021, by Martha Rosenberg

  “One of the reasons I started working in nanotechnology was so I could apply it to plants and create new technology solutions. Not just for food, but for high-value products as well, like pharmaceuticals.” So says the University of California Riverside’s Juan Pablo Giraldo, lead researcher vaccine-maker Moderna.
  A GMO or genetically modified organism is considered one whose genetic material makeup does not occur in nature but has been produced by enhancing, altering, or knocking out (…)

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  Delhi Police: Search of an Image | Twinkle Siwach

  1 October 2021

  reviewed by Twinkle Siwach
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  Capital Cops:
  The Unofficial Guide to Delhi Police
  by Suvashis Choudhary
  Har-Anand Publications Pvt Ltd
  2021
  Pages: 192
  ISBN: 978-93-91504-01-4
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  The essay begins with the context in which we are describing Delhi Police. The first part of the essay talks about the historically evolving nature of the Delhi Police. The second part presents a discussion of the book. The third part is an analysis of the functioning of the Delhi Police and (…)

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  Patriotism is not Blind Nationalism | M R Narayan Swamy

  1 October 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy

  The Psychology of a Patriot
  Saket Suman
  Rupa
  10th August 2021
  Pages: 240 pages; Price: Rs 295
  ISBN: 978-93-91256-39-5
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  A very superficial and outward idea of patriotism has been introduced into people’s lives and implanted in brains in India, so much so that gestures such as chanting anthems and waving flags are now used to define a patriot. This is how, author-journalist Saket Suman says, patriotism has historically been manipulated by political and vested interests and (…)

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  Photo of certificate for natives in British India that granted permission to sit in the presence of British officials

  1 October 2021
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  Cartoon: 74 year old Indian Democracy | Rajendra Dhodapkar

  1 October 2021
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  Video: The Truth Behind Online Schooling: Survey Shows Shocking Disparity for Under Privileged Kids in India

  1 October 2021

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  The Truth Behind Online Schooling: Survey Shows Shocking Disparity for Under Privileged Kids by The Wire https://youtu.be/oZl6LDlV75k

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  Implications of Taliban Rule in Afghanistan - A conversation with Ahmed Rashid (Sept 29, 2021)

  1 October 2021

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  The Taliban in Afghanistan: Political and Security Challenges by Carnegie Endowment https://youtu.be/usVTzji1c_0

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Sept 25, 2021

  25 September 2021

  * USA’s Military Base in India: Security and Sovereignty issues | S G Vombatkere
  * Capitalism From Below: Blending of Rice and Rum| Radhakanta Barik
  * Remembering J Mohan | Sankar Ray
  * Dialectic of Negativity & Chapter 6 of Marx’s Capital | Paresh Chattopadhyay
  * Woman must work (1921) | Madeleine Pelletier

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 25, 2021

  25 September 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, September 25, 2021
  We have seen how the government or powerful interests are sensitive and nervous about data that shows them in poor light. Manipulation of statistics and numbers to manage and influence public perception is an old strategy. Data of famines or on election results in post-revolution Soviet Union or China was tightly controlled and held back. We saw the data scientists uncover large-scale fudging of data on the real numbers and estimates of (…)

• USA’s Military Base in India: Security and Sovereignty issues | S G Vombatkere

  25 September 2021, by S G Vombatkere

  by S.G.Vombatkere*
  USA may operationalize the 2016 Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA), by insisting on building a military base in India, for use as a staging area for beyond-the-horizon surveillance and “launching attacks on terrorists in and around Afghanistan”.
  The US Administration is embarrassed by its capitulation to Taliban (signing a peace treaty with Taliban at Doha, February 2020, to allow withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan), the sudden collapse of the US (…)