In 'Garibaldi in South America: An Exploration', author Richard Bourne offers a detailed account of Italian military general Garibaldi's life, and how he later came to be known as a 'hero of two worlds'.
Book Excerpt: Sam Pitroda, Technology and Three Near-Death Experiences
In his latest book, Redesign the world: A global call to Action , Sam Pitroda makes a case for a new world order with the planet and its people at its centre.Â
Sam Pitroda with former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. Photo: Twitter.
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One morning, I received a call from Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: he wanted me to meet with the president of Vietnam, who was then on a visit to Delhi. That same afternoon, I spent an hour with him discussing telecom, technology missions and Indiaâs software industry.
Urvashi Bahuguna s Latest Book on Mental Health Offers Hope for Turbulent Minds No Straight Thing Was Ever Made has 10 deeply honest essays that examine the author s experiences with dating, family, therapists, her writing life, the natural world, arts and social media.
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Health29/Apr/2021
âOut of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made,â wrote Immanuel Kant in 1784. He was saying that we are made of so many irreconcilable parts that it is impossible to fashion something that makes perfect sense out of it.
This is where Urvashi Bahugunaâs collection of essays on mental health gets its aptly chosen title,
A Personal Account of Border Crossing Reveals the Deep Ties Between Nepal, China
An excerpt from All Roads Lead North: Nepal s Turn to China book sheds light on how the neighbouring countries moved close to each other in the past few years, with implications for geopolitics.
Rasuwagadhi border. Photo: Special arrangement
World17/Mar/2021
At Rasuwagadhi border crossing, which Chinese maps from the 1792 war call âResoqiaoâ or âIron Chains Bridgeâ, dust is the norm. The walls of the fort where Gorkhali soldiers held off the Qings in a three-day battle were rebuilt by the Nepal Army after it collapsed during the 2015 earthquake. The regionâs delicate geology has been further destabilised by the earthquake. Landslides are commonplace; in Timure, about 3 km from the border, a yellow house is submerged in a sea of mud, a macabre memorial to the nine people who died in a landslide here in 2018.
Drought Is Not Simply a Natural Calamity, It Is Also Driven by Commercial Greed
In his foreword to Kavitha Iyer s book Landscapes of Loss , P. Sainath writes about the commodification of water and the thriving thirst economy in the Marathwada region.
Representative image of a handpump. Photo: nevil zaveri/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
As India witnesses its largest-ever farmers’ agitation,
Landscapes of Loss: The Story of an Indian Drought, a new book by Kavitha Iyer, takes a close look at several of the deeper issues that have been afflicting the country’s farming community for decades now and brought it to this desperate pass.