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As the Indian freedom struggle grew in scope and ambition, a slew of British writers and intellectuals, many of whom had done one kind or other service in the colony felt called upon to define their own positions…

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Started in 1968 by graduates of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, the Front for Rapid Economic Advancement of India, or FREA, ran an ‘involvement programme’ which took over 350 students from different professional colleges all over India to more than 40 rural and urban projects across the country.  Enquiring Minds explores different facets of this unique experiment 50 years after it began, through the memories of those who participated in it.

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The term ‘education’ is as hard to pin down as it is ubiquitous, so it feels a remarkable achievement that the programme has been able to find its feet so quickly, graduate masters and doctoral students, and along the way train thousands of teachers across the country.

First Person Singular is a collection of essays, opinion articles, reminiscences, and obituaries, written by Ashok Mitra, most of these originally appearing in The Telegraph daily published out of Kolkata as part of a regular column which lends its name to this book.

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Based on research conducted over a year and a half, First Steps is the first account of its kind that documents, maps and analyses the rapidly growing field of Citizen Science in ecology in India. It presents important elements of what has happened in recent years through a study of 17 such projects and sets the stage for what might be expected in the years to come.

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They stitch the clothes the world wears. They earn some of the lowest wages in Indian manufacturing. And on 18 April 2016, tens of thousands of Bengaluru’s women garment workers walked off the factory floor in a protest so large it shut down a city. The press called it a riot. The police answered with batons. The government quietly reversed the policy that triggered it— then came the midnight raids, the arbitrary arrests, and the slow work of making sure it never happened again. For most of the country, that was the end of the story.

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The Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) has been a leading economic light of the Gujarat Model. It was the flagship project of an “economic resurgence” that the Narendra Modi government unleashed …