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

The best articles, stories, books reviews - political, historical, art, cinema, religion, ecology

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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