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The Hindu on Books newsletter: The rich legacy of A.G. Noorani, talking to Rakhshanda Jalil and more
3 months, 2 weeks ago

The Hindu on Books newsletter: The rich legacy of A.G. Noorani, talking to Rakhshanda Jalil and more

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. What is at stake is the soul of India.” In reviews we read about Saurabh Kirpal’s new book, a thriller set in Ooty, a novel on the duality of city life, and talk to literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil about her new book on the rich literary tradition of Urdu poets. …

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Labour scraps £40m private helicopter service favoured by Rishi Sunak
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Labour scraps £40m private helicopter service favoured by Rishi Sunak

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Labour has axed …

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The Hindu on Books newsletter: Hisham Matar’s ‘friends’, Lara on Lara, Ajaz Ashraf on Bhima Koregaon and more
3 months, 3 weeks ago

The Hindu on Books newsletter: Hisham Matar’s ‘friends’, Lara on Lara, Ajaz Ashraf on Bhima Koregaon and more

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The author manages to keep the reader in the proverbial shoes of Khaled as he is consumed by the idea of his only two friends turning into men of action while he watches from the sidelines, forever exiled.” In reviews, we read Ajaz Sharma’s reflections on the Bhima Koregaon violence …

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How L. Subramaniam’s Raga Harmony concept can help create a global composition
4 months, 1 week ago

How L. Subramaniam’s Raga Harmony concept can help create a global composition

The Hindu  

Violin maestro L. Subramaniam recently published his doctoral thesis as a book, Raga Harmony. The book explains how he integrated the Indian raga system with the harmonic structure of Western classical music. Raga Harmony is laced with interesting pictures of the musician directing the Leipzig and London Philharmonic Orchestra, playing with Yehudi Menuhin, conducting his composition the ‘Global Symphony’ and …

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Dutch to the fore as women's Tour de France begins in Rotterdam
4 months, 1 week ago

Dutch to the fore as women's Tour de France begins in Rotterdam

Dutch News  

One of the biggest women’s races in the cycling calendar will roll out of Rotterdam on Monday as the Tour de France Femmes opens with three stages in the Netherlands. Dutch sprinter Lorena Wiebes is among the favourites to claim the yellow jersey on day one of the seven-stage race, a 123-kilometre route from Rotterdam through Westland to The Hague. …

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Dutch to the fore as women's Tour de France begins in Rotterdam
4 months, 1 week ago

Dutch to the fore as women's Tour de France begins in Rotterdam

Dutch News  

One of the biggest women’s races in the cycling calendar will roll out of Rotterdam on Monday as the Tour de France Femmes opens with three stages in the Netherlands. Dutch sprinter Lorena Wiebes is among the favourites to claim the yellow jersey on day one of the seven-stage race, a 123-kilometre route from Rotterdam through Westland to The Hague. …

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‘Gujarat was the laboratory for today’s India,’ says Prof. Christophe Jaffrelot
5 months ago

‘Gujarat was the laboratory for today’s India,’ says Prof. Christophe Jaffrelot

The Hindu  

When Christophe Jaffrelot, French political scientist and Indologist, submitted the manuscript of his new book, Gujarat Under Modi, in 2013, he was asked to delete so many passages he decided not to go ahead with it. Edited excerpts: You call ‘Gujarat Under Modi’ a “political biography of an Indian state through the personality and actions of its most resilient ruler.” …

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Reviews of Siddhartha Deb’s Twilight Prisoners, and Radha Kumar’s The Republic Relearnt: State of the nation
5 months ago

Reviews of Siddhartha Deb’s Twilight Prisoners, and Radha Kumar’s The Republic Relearnt: State of the nation

The Hindu  

In recent weeks, two books throbbing with immediacy have caught the headlines. Then without a warning, he asks, “Had a great Hindu temple to Ram ever previously existed here?” His exploration leads him to the Supreme Court’s words in its Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi verdict where the court admitted, “There is no specific finding that the underlying structure was a temple dedicated …

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“Broken Promises” by Mrityunjay Sharma: A Flawed Chronicle of Bihar’s Lalu Era
5 months, 3 weeks ago

“Broken Promises” by Mrityunjay Sharma: A Flawed Chronicle of Bihar’s Lalu Era

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 26, 2024 11:00 IST - 6 MINS READ Since the trail-blazing work of the journalist Arvind Narayan Das, scholastic works documenting the politics and society of Bihar have been steadily rising. Broken Promises: Caste, Crime and Politics in Bihar By Mrityunjay Sharma Westland Books, 2023 Pages: 333+ xiii Price: Rs.699 The latest entrant to this list, Mrityunjay …

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The Hindu on Books newsletter: remembering pt nair, ‘barefoot’ chronicler of Calcutta; talking to brinda karat and more
5 months, 4 weeks ago

The Hindu on Books newsletter: remembering pt nair, ‘barefoot’ chronicler of Calcutta; talking to brinda karat and more

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. In reviews, we talk to Brinda Karat about her monograph on women, violence and Hindutva, we read Alpa Shah’s book on the Bhima Koregaon-accused, and writers, artists, and activists reflect why fair and inclusive representation of queer identity in Indian literature continues to be a distant dream and what they …

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The Hindu on Books newsletter: ‘Gujarat under Modi’, Janaki Bakhle on Savarkar and Hannah Ritchie on saving earth
6 months, 2 weeks ago

The Hindu on Books newsletter: ‘Gujarat under Modi’, Janaki Bakhle on Savarkar and Hannah Ritchie on saving earth

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. However, as he writes in Preface 2023, the legal advisers of publishers found the manuscript to be of “high risk” with its “unyielding view of Narendra Modi’s regime” in Gujarat as Chief Minister. In 2001, Jaffrelot called Gujarat “a laboratory for Hindu nationalism” and in 2010, Howard Spodek called it …

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HT Picks; New Reads
7 months, 2 weeks ago

HT Picks; New Reads

Hindustan Times  

Episodes from the Ramcharitmanas This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a selection of some of the most renowned episodes of Tulsidas’s Ramcharitmanas, a collection of hyper-real stories by leading Bengali writer Mashiul Alam, and a series of conversations on the psychology of war and peace. 175pp, ₹399; Harvard University Press Tulsidas’s Rāmcharitmānas, written in the sixteenth century in a …

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Congress playing religious card in Arunachal: Chief Minister Khandu
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Congress playing religious card in Arunachal: Chief Minister Khandu

The Hindu  

GUWAHATI Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on April 3 accused the Congress of playing the religious card in the State after a Christian organisation declared support for the Lok Sabha candidates of the grand old party. The ACF also appealed to the people to vote for Congress candidates Nabam Tuki, a former Chief Minister, in the Arunachal West parliamentary …

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Where God Began review: A tale of everybody’s loneliness
9 months ago

Where God Began review: A tale of everybody’s loneliness

Live Mint  

Where God Began starts with a decision already made. Nishant, an asylum-seeking Sri Lankan Tamil escaping the unrest of the 1990s, starts his journey from Colombo with one group of people. Nishant encounters old women trying to reunite with their children who had reached different countries, handsome young men who start working with the mafia in transit countries that prove …

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Where God Began review: A tale of everybody’s loneliness
9 months ago

Where God Began review: A tale of everybody’s loneliness

Live Mint  

Where God Began starts with a decision already made. Nishant, an asylum-seeking Sri Lankan Tamil escaping the unrest of the 1990s, starts his journey from Colombo with one group of people. Nishant encounters old women trying to reunite with their children who had reached different countries, handsome young men who start working with the mafia in transit countries that prove …

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Mithun Number Two review: Jayant Kaikini’s stories soar beyond Mumbai
9 months ago

Mithun Number Two review: Jayant Kaikini’s stories soar beyond Mumbai

Live Mint  

There are narratives and narratives about Mumbai, a place that holds both the promise and the threat of a quintessential Big City, in varied genres in most Indian languages, including English. Kaikini’s earlier collection of 16 stories set in Mumbai, No Presents Please, also translated by Niranjana, won the DSC award in 2018, and the prestigious American Literary Translators’ Association …

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Mithun Number Two review: Jayant Kaikini’s stories soar beyond Mumbai
9 months ago

Mithun Number Two review: Jayant Kaikini’s stories soar beyond Mumbai

Live Mint  

There are narratives and narratives about Mumbai, a place that holds both the promise and the threat of a quintessential Big City, in varied genres in most Indian languages, including English. Kaikini’s earlier collection of 16 stories set in Mumbai, No Presents Please, also translated by Niranjana, won the DSC award in 2018, and the prestigious American Literary Translators’ Association …

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Review of Indira Varma’s Lest We Forget — How Three Sisters Braved the Partition: Lost and found
9 months, 1 week ago

Review of Indira Varma’s Lest We Forget — How Three Sisters Braved the Partition: Lost and found

The Hindu  

The shadows of the past follow us all our lives. Indira Varma, seven years old in the autumn of 1947, inherited the loss — of her childhood, her home, family, and their life in Peshawar — amidst the new found, bitter-sweet “independence”. At the announcement of partition, Indira Varma, her two sisters, a mother and grandparents, leave their life of …

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AgustaWestland Case: Delhi Court Dismisses Christian Michel's Plea Seeking Release From Custody
9 months, 3 weeks ago

AgustaWestland Case: Delhi Court Dismisses Christian Michel's Plea Seeking Release From Custody

Live Law  

A Delhi Court recently dismissed a plea moved by Christian James Michel seeking his release from custody in connection with Agusta Westland case. Special CBI judge Sanjeev Aggarwal of Rouse Avenue Courts observed that it was not clear under what provision of CrPC the application for release was moved by Michel, as an accused could only be released on bail …

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Agusta Westland case: Court dismisses plea of Christian Michel seeking custody release
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Agusta Westland case: Court dismisses plea of Christian Michel seeking custody release

Hindustan Times  

A Delhi court recently refused to release accused Christian Michel from custody in the alleged Agusta Westland VVIP chopper scam being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation. Michel had approached the court, in December 2023, seeking release from custody citing that he has been in custody for more than five years, since his arrest on December 4, 2018, after …

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Yili selected among Forbes China Globalization Innovators
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Yili selected among Forbes China Globalization Innovators

China Daily  

The certificate granted to Yili Group. The inaugural Forbes China Globalization Innovators 30&30 awards ceremony was held in Shanghai on Jan 26. Yili Group was the only dairy company to be honored as one of the Top 30 Global Brands for Globalization Innovators. This year, Forbes China introduced the 2023 Forbes China Globalization Top 30 selection for the first time, …

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Supreme Court Refuses To Cancel Bail Of Augusta Westland Scam Accused-Turned-Approver Rajeev Saxena
11 months ago

Supreme Court Refuses To Cancel Bail Of Augusta Westland Scam Accused-Turned-Approver Rajeev Saxena

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to cancel the bail granted to the accused-turned-approver Rajeev Saxena in the VVIP Augusta Westland Chopper Scam. ASG SV Raju contended that “ He's not co-operating, he's not giving us documents, he's not answering questions, not coming to us when we are calling him…I am not pressing for cancellation, my entire endeavour is to …

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Sinterklaas comes to Gorinchem, 20,000 people expected to attend
1 year, 1 month ago

Sinterklaas comes to Gorinchem, 20,000 people expected to attend

NL Times  

Sinterklaas comes to the Netherlands on Saturday. Even though the Sinterklaas festivities are expected to take place without demonstrations in Gorinchem, this was not the case in other towns in Zuid-Holland. For instance, in the Westland town of De Lier, Kick Out Zwarte Piet demonstrated against the appearance of the Pieten during the St. Nicholas parade on Friday. It has …

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A nosedive into the past: Secrets from the non-fiction book The Perfume Project
1 year, 2 months ago

A nosedive into the past: Secrets from the non-fiction book The Perfume Project

Hindustan Times  

Rose, jasmine, sandalwood, saffron, oud and vetiver. Dhingra became obsessed with the book Cultivation and Uses of Aromatic Plants by Ramesh Kumar Srivastava, Shakti Vinay Shukla and Sanjeet Singh Dagar, which outlines the applications of a staggering 18,500 varieties of aromatic plants. “There is nothing so much adulterated as saffron,” Roman philosopher and military commander Pliny the Elder complained, in …

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