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Chaos and coalitions - The Hindu
1 year, 5 months ago

Chaos and coalitions - The Hindu

The Hindu  

Political parties are realigning, unsettling old equations across India. Between the two alliances that made their respective shows of strength last week, one could count 64 parties — 38 at the National Democratic Alliance meeting that endorsed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a third term in 2024, and 26 at a gathering that vowed to work jointly to defeat him. …

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The BJP’s Karnataka defeat — a blow to its mythmaking
1 year, 8 months ago

The BJP’s Karnataka defeat — a blow to its mythmaking

The Hindu  

The Congress’ decisive win in Karnataka shatters two myths about the BJP’s electoral dominance — the idea of “subaltern Hindutva” and the popularity of the “double engine” slogan. The former tendency has scorched the BJP in state elections in Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, while the latter tendency has stalled the party’s expansion bid in state elections of Telangana, Orissa …

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A rereading of Kerala modernity
2 years, 3 months ago

A rereading of Kerala modernity

The Hindu  

Published : Sep 22, 2022 10:00 IST Writing a decade ago, Nissim Mannathukkaren observed that the most progressive outcome of the communist engagement in Kerala was its ability to convert “culture” into a “cog in the movement towards a material understanding and transformation of society”. This book is Mannathukkaren’s meticulous and empirically rich response to attempts at studying Kerala using …

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Battling all odds: The rise of young subaltern women
5 years, 5 months ago

Battling all odds: The rise of young subaltern women

Hindustan Times  

As Monika Kumari begins a two-week, all-female scientific wilderness expedition to Mount Baker, an active volcano, in Washington, USA, she might want to consider the distance she ha s come. Hima Das, who brought home four gold medals in 15 days, is the daughter of a farmer Hutup village, Jharkhand, where she lives, is over 11,500 km away. When she …

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