Linked stories and news Mid-Summer 2019. Now Read This!

From the Telegraph and India Today (below).  Mid-summer 2019.

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     Also see New Books of 2019, April 2019 (17 tiles), July 2019 (25 titles), August 2019 (18 tiles).

Telegraph* 2019 August 3, p. 14. Ram. Guha. Threats to speech (lynchings)

speech - Gandhi

https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/threat-to-speech-law-designed-to-suppress-the-liberty-of-the-citizen-used-against-gandhi-and-indians-now/cid/1695710

2019 July 28. p. 9. Drought fear in south Bihar.

2019 July 27. p. 6. Nitish hopes for help to fight floods.

2019 July 26. p. 13. Fortune’s soldier. Alex Rutherford. Robert Clive.

https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/robert-clive-s-adventures-in-india/cid/1695245

https://smile.amazon.com/FORTUNES-SOLDIER-ALEX-RUTHERFORD/dp/9351952983/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=9351952983&qid=1565960424&s=gateway&sr=8-1

--- The Great Mysore Bhagavata. San Diego Museum.

https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/miniatures-from-southern-india/cid/1695247

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1105748510

Great Mysore Bhagavata

--- Reel India Cinema off the beaten Track Namrata Joshi. Hindi cinema grip on small towns.

https://www.amazon.in/Reel-India-Cinema-Beaten-Track/dp/9350097214/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Reel+India+Cinema&qid=1565960634&s=gateway&sr=8-1

2019 July 19, p. 12. Shiv Visvanathan. Thinking Differently.

http://kalimpongonlinenews.blogspot.com/2019/07/democracy-is-exciting-when-it.html

--- p. 13. When magic falls short. Ghosh – Gun Island

https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/gun-island-falling-short-of-magic/cid/1694790

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1108780628

--- Naxalite decade. Ed Ranabir Samaddar.

Naxalites on the march

https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/naxalite-movement-struggles-still-unforgotten/cid/1694806

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1079792910

2019 July 13, p. 5. People will choose successor: Lalu.

     --- RJD chief gets bail in fodder case.

2019 July 12, p. 15. Gandhi after 9/11 by Douglas Allen. Reinterating Gandhi’s relevance

https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/gandhi-a-man-for-all-times/cid/1694273

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1103333108

India Today

2019 August 12, p. 12 Visible Muslims, invisible citizen. Salman Khurshid. Disappearing.

https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/up-front/story/20190812-books-the-disappearing-muslim-1576426-2019-08-02

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1107874800

--- 16-17 Bihar. Mixed Signals. CM keeps BJP guessing.

--- 54-56 Tigers. There is hope for the tiger yet.

Hope for tigers

https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/travel/wildlife/story/20190812-there-is-hope-for-the-tiger-yet-1576015-2019-08-02

--- p. 57-59 Picture book on Ganga. River Runs Aground. Giulio Di Sturco’s photobook, etc.

https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/leisure/stor

y/20190812-a-river-runs-aground-1576012-2019-08-02

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1087106423 Ganga Ma

--- p. 62 Royal Feast. Salma Yusuf Husain. Recipe book from Shah Jahan. Or Nuskha-e-Shahjahani.

Recipe book

https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/leisure/story/20190812-the-royal-treat-1576464-2019-08-02

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1103038084

2019 August 5 p. 12 Review of Ambedkar Cartoons book.Unnamati Syama Sundar.

Ambedkar Cartoons

https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/up-front/story/20190805-books-the-lone-soldier-1573326-2019-07-26

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1108718834

2019 July 22, p. 15-16 Bihar. Nitish keeps the Congress interested

--- p. 46-48 Chattisgarh. Whose land is it anyway. The Abujhmarh tribal rights.

2019 July 15, p. 18. Interview with Arundhati Roy. My Seditious Heart.

https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/up-front/story/20190715-interview-with-arundhati-roy-we-have-to-endure-1562105-2019-07-05

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1090831172

2019 July 8, p. 14. Nitish’s battle against AES https://www.magzter.com/articles/5/356114/5d1623844443f

    Or https://www.indiatoday.in/india-today-insight/story/acute-encephalitis-syndrome-aes-bihar-1555009-2019-06-24 

2019 July 1, p. 26, 28 Bihar. Now 2020 in his sights (Nitish)

Amitav Ghosh - Gun Island

--- p. 131-132 Ghosh Gun review. Horseman of the Apocalypse. Gun Island review

https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/leisure/story/20190701-horseman-of-the-apocalypse-1552833-2019-06-21

--- p. 133 Maharaja and Phily connection. Building an empire state. Punjab 19^th century.

Maharaja and the Phily connection

https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/leisure/story/20190701-building-an-empire-state-1552917-2019-06-21

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1108782220 Stories from the court of Ranjit Singh. The camel merchant of Philadelphia.

https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/leisure/story/20190701-building-an-empire-state-1552917-2019-06-21

--- p. 141 cow lynchings. Anatomy of a lynching. Documentary explores how L are dividing India

https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/leisure/story/20190701-anatomy-of-a-lynching-1552943-2019-06-21

Now Read This - Linked news and stories

 What's happening in the Telegraph (Kolkata)? Thoughts and stories from all over. Click on the links.

2019 May 13. The Guardian. Literature provides shelter. That's why we need it. Arundhati Roy.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/13/arundhati-roy-literature-shelter-pen-america

2019 July 5, p. 13. Shiva’s Jewel. Hampi. Lepakshi: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting. Anna L. Dallapiccola, etc. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1089961743

2109 June 30, p. 15. Autumn of the patriarch. House of Yadu is over.

--- p. 16, Princess Bride. Parulran of the Rani Rashmoni family recalls the 1946 Great Calcutta Killings.

--- Planters’ Journal – the Shibpur botanical garden. William Roxburgh founded a herbarium inside the garden.

https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/west-bengal/a-fest-of-flora-and-fauna-in-shibpur-garden/cid/1501554

--- p. 17. In cinemas now: Survival’s Tale. Demise of the Roxy theatre and others

https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/west-bengal/rise-and-fall-of-dream-theatres/cid/1282868

t2 on Sunday, p. 12-14. Back to the future. Amitav Ghosh on Gun Island

https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/back-to-the-future-amitav-ghosh-on-his-new-book/cid/1693443

2109June 29, p. 16. Suitable Cast. Mira Nair scouts for actors for adaption of Vikram Seth’s Suitable.

2019 June 28, p. 15. Ganga: the Many pasts of a river by Sudipta Sen

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076877442

--- Essays on Indian History by Kesavan Veluthat http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1040245050

--- Our Kolkata BW photographs by Jayanta Saha

http://in-street.com/book-review-our-kolkata-by-jayanta-saha/

Books on Kolkata https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/t2-browses-through-eight-photo-books-on-calcutta-that-can-rsquo-t-be-missed/cid/1310689

2019 June 21, p. 15. The Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate. Arundhati Roy.

https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/caste-and-other-demons/cid/1692818

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/959036908

In UVa library https://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u7215655

--- City and the Sea by Raj Kamal Jha. (2012 rape) (Not in UVa library

https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/nightmares-do-come-true/cid/1692824

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1105734810

--- On Modern Indian Sensibilities ed by Ishita Banerjee-Dube, etc.

https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/deep-impact/cid/1692832

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/102819488 (not in UVa library)

2019 June 16, p. 15. Pancham: aural, oral (80^th R. D. Burman)

https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/pancham-aural-oral-in-the-80th-anniversary-year-of-r-d-burman/cid/1692500

2019 June 15, p. 7. A woman pulls a rickshaw during rain in Jabalpur on Friday.

2019 June 14, p. 15. Kudan : Saigal’s life and music. Sharad Dutt.

https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/k-l-saigal-a-light-that-shines-still/cid/1692359

2019 June 8, p. 14. Why Sonia Gandhi should read Ibn Khaldun. R. Guha.

https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/why-sonia-gandhi-should-read-ibn-khaldun/cid/1691973

2019 June 7, p. 16. Dipesh Chakrabrty – Claiming Tagore for communal politics

https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/distorting-lenses-claiming-tagore-for-communal-politics/cid/1691911

--- p. 17. Questioning Paradigms: Romila Thapar. Ed Kumkum Roy.

https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/commemorating-historian-romila-thapar/cid/1691910

The book: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1088529865

--- The RSS: menace. By A. G. Nooani

https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/the-rss-challenging-the-secular-polity-of-india/cid/1691919

The book: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1097565127

 --- Brigitte Singh: Printress of the Mughal Garden. Ed Bishwadeep Moitra.