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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 not really setting up a distinction between northern and southern expressions and points to the poss...

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 Joint Director of Animal Husbandry S. Arunachalakani. He said that the birds affected by Ranikhet dise...

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 will land on your plate, sold at reduced prices by the poultries.

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 British university presses, though they had all have taken it like a shot. It had been very long sin...

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 utter rubbish and it is being doled out by two interested parties: the poultry industry themselves, s...