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In “Midnight’s Machines,” Arun Mohan Sukumar cherry picks anecdotes to cast Nehru as an anti-technological leader. This is just an innovative escalation of the Nehru-bashing that has been characteristic of the last few years. @bulletprooflama writes: https://t.co/ngMXezO0hN

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The “establishment scientists,” as they are now known among their peers, failed to stand up against the Modi government’s disastrous chosen course and so, collectively, became joint authors of India’s fate. On their watch, India burnt like Dante’s inferno. https://t.co/ccw6UebqTa https://t.co/GLHyrwPh8T

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Replug | Hindu groups were angered by Govind Pansare’s booklet “Shivaji Kon Hota?”—Who Was Shivaji?—which portrayed him as a protector of peasants, Dalits, women and Muslims, and not, as the Hindu right portrayed him, as a protector of Brahmins and cows. https://t.co/c1pmEFODfj https://t.co/C19tnut6xE

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Saloni Mathur’s book India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display studies how India was “made fashionable” to the western world in the late 19th century when “foreign demand for all things Indian … was at an altogether different peak.” https://t.co/c39JrXzOcH

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By the second half of the century, non-American pottery began to dominate the US market. Hall China’s prosperity plummeted, and, along with it, East Liverpool’s. The dip in industry was accompanied by rises in unemployment, poverty and crime. From 2016: http://bit.ly/3r5RF19

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Today is Jotirao Phule’s birth anniversary. Phule’s politics extended to how he wrote in Marathi. His writing challenged the linguistic norms of “correct” or “refined” Marathi set by Pune’s Chitpavan literary elite and instead reflected non-Brahmin speech. https://t.co/Smav5DeIYj https://t.co/CuWZZYzhJs

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“The Indian government proposed this service group [Reliance], and Dassault negotiated with Ambani,” French president Hollande added. “We did not have a choice, we took the interlocutor who was given to us.” From September 2018: https://t.co/XNEpDYZR0X

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In 1983, Ian Jack travelled to the town of Motihari in Bihar to visit the place George Orwell was born. In a 1984 piece titled “In search of a Jaarj Arwil”, Jack recounted that locals were clueless that their town was the writer’s birthplace. From 2013: https://t.co/FZ9LFbPSWR

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Amitav Ghosh’s “The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis” traces the origins of global warming to Enlightenment doctrines about nature. If colonialism served as their testing-ground, science acted as its accomplice. https://t.co/MHepehzwr3

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Rahul Rao’s book, “Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality,” examines histories of queerness against those of imperialism and anti-imperialism, paganism and Christianity, whiteness, embourgeoisement and caste. In the September 2021 issue: https://t.co/Ql7BHqyvUT