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Ranikhet: Permanent Black , 2019; pp xiv + 250, ₹ 795. The title of the book invites attention at once. “Strangeness” is a curious word to use to describe a political and social culture within the union of India. It is interesting that M S S Pandian has preferred it to words such as “exceptional” and “different.” Clearly, he does not want to mire his observations in more general arguments to do with history and civilisation in the subcontinent. Further, he makes clear that he is ...

Updated: Share Article AAA The Department of Animal Husbandry will begin vaccination of backyard poultry, farm chicks and turkey against Ranikhet disease from February 1 to 14. A total of 2.50 lakh birds would be administered the vaccine by veterinary doctors at the villages, said Virudhunagar Collector R. Kannan. Though the disease, that leads to whitish diarrhoea among the poultry birds was not found in the district, the vaccination is being done as part of a State-wide programme, said Joi...

January 25, 2021 Share The WHO started by saying that there is no evidence that the virus can spread through food – provided it is cooked at more than 60 degree Celsius. What they have neglected to say is that the chicken is handled by you long before it is cooked By the time you read this lakh of chickens will have died of Avian Flu. Some will have died naturally. Others will have been beaten to death or strangled. How many do you think will be buried or burnt? Very few. Most of them...

Three recollections of Sunil Kumar, the historian who stood tall against majoritarian politics In his book ‘The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate’, he argued that the sultanate was less a solid political entity than a fluid formation. Sunil Kumar Rukun Advani Fourteen years ago, Sunil Kumar held a copy of his first big book in his hands: The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate, 1192-1286 (Permanent Black, 2007). He had not bothered trying to publish it with any of the big American or ...

Protect yourself By the time you read this lakhs of chickens will have died of avian flu. Some will have died naturally. Others will have been beaten to death or strangled. How many do you think will be buried or burnt? Very few. Most of them will land on your plate, sold at reduced prices by the poultries. So what, you say. The newspapers have repeatedly told you that bird flu makes no difference to the quality of chicken you eat and, as long as you cook it, you will come to no harm. This is u...

Express News Service DEHRADUN: The latest voter list of Uttarakhand has revealed decline in voters of hilly areas of the state assembly constituencies while in plain areas voters continue to increase in numbers.  So much so that now 12 hill side constituencies have less than 90,000 voters. The state has total 70 assembly constituencies.  Analysts say if the trend continues, political importance of the hill areas will weaken which may prompt further negligence of the remote hills of Uttarakh...

Punjab issues advisory for surveillance of poultry farms, wetlands amid bird flu scare Updated: Updated: They said no case of bird flu has been reported so far in Punjab. Share Article AAA Experts collect samples for the detection of bird-flu, at Gharana wetland on the outskirts of Jammu, on Tuesday.   | Photo Credit: PTI They said no case of bird flu has been reported so far in Punjab. Amid a bird flu scare, authorities in Punjab have alerted officials to keep tabs on any unusual deaths of ...

‘The real Chipko’: How Shekhar Pathak wrote the first exhaustive, people’s history of the movement Pathak’s new book focuses on the ordinary, often unlettered, men, women and children who shaped the forest rights struggle. Dec 27, 2020 · 06:30 am I first came across Shekhar Pathak’s name in the files of the Uttar Pradesh State Archives in Lucknow. The year was 1983, and I was working on a dissertation on the social history of forests in the Uttarakhand Himalaya. In those days t...

Shooting stars: As the Hubble Telescope turns 30, heavenly pursuits have grown from a niche Astrophotographers attempt to record and understand the Universe as technology expands the world and data brings it closer.  Share Via Email   |  A+A A- To celebrate the space telescope’s 30th, NASA has issued a selection of photographs labelled “30 celestial gems”. (Photo | Neeraj Ladia ) The Hubble Telescope, mankind’s primary star catcher launched into the Earth’s orbit in 1990, turn...