#1947

Leaving here on 10/10/2020

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The Jewish War of Survival (1947) by Arnold Spencer Leese"The appalling events which have taken place in Europe since the Spring of 1945 are sufficient justification for all that I

manwithabigstick

bahutbadadanda

A very good article, about a a very big problem in India. Do read and share.https://twitter.com/Pragyata_/status/1263799055013908480?s=20 I suppose somewhere along the line, we Indians/ Hindus started huffing our own farts

Dexter Fergie

DexterFergie

A fantastic resource that I just stumbled upon today is Duke's Ad*Access digital collection, which has a large, keyword-searchable database of ads from the first half of the 20th cent.

LSBU Bangladeshi Society

BangladeshiLsbu

21 February, The International Mother Language Day was declared by UNESCO in 1999. The declaration came up in tribute to the Language Movement done by the Bangladeshi heroes (then the

krishnamurthy

krishna0302

Inspired by @SonuSood (not kidding!), 2 villages in #Vizianagaram dt of #AndhraPradesh decided to stand on their own feet. After begging the local govt since 1947 to build a road

Jalebi 🌈

artqueerjalebi

The lost written scripts of Pakistan - a threadBetween 1868 to 1947, the official written script for Sindhi was the Khudabadi script. Khudabadi script was in widespread use between 16th

Alexandra Evans

AlexandraTEvans

After reading this thought provoking piece in @ForeignAffairs, I keep returning to one paragraph early in essay...https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2020-04-13/end-grand-strategy Alas, it's more than my allotted characters: I wonder if

Abhishek_DevilsAttorney

AbhiAttorney_

PIN DROP SILENCE Soon after getting freedom from British rule in 1947, the de-facto prime minister of India, Jawahar Lal Nehru called a meeting of senior Army Officers to select

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scochangbin

Stray Kids as Frida Kahlo portraits: a thread I absolutely adore Frida Kahlo and she's a true Mexican Idol for the Mexican Revolution through her art and political acts. She

Rizwan

Rizwow

The recent debate about Single National Curriculum got me interested in Dr. @MariamChughtai's research background and I found her PHD dissertation titled "What produces a history textbook?". It is an in-depth

Dr Subroto Roy

subyroy

My thinking over more than 30 yrs on the Kashmir problem has been elemental: there was "British India" and "Indian India": Britain recognized in international law first India then Pakistan

Donald Schneider

DonFSchneider

THREAD/ Good news: using a new(ish) measure of the labor share that Rognlie deems "the best measure," pay and productivity are growing together.Bad news: there's a much bigger puzzle than

மானமும் அறிவும்🩺💊💉🖤❤️

TenPercentFraud

பாஜகவும் படேல் சிலையும் !உலகிலேயே மிகக் கூடுதல் உயரம் கொண்ட சிலையாக (182 மீட்டர்) வல்லபாய் ப

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: April 7, 1947. Telephone operators for the major phone companies walked off the job in a strike that led to the formation of the Communication

Dr Subroto Roy

subyroy

Mr @ShekharGupta seems to me appallingly ignorant, or merely blinkered, on the issue; surprising for such a well-resourced Dilliwalla media person, or perhaps not... https://twitter.com/rwac48/status/1162899273966481408 1. "Before sear

Sherrilyn Ifill

Sifill_LDF

We honored Doris Raye Jennings Brewer & her twin Doris Faye Jennings Alston who tried to enroll in the white school in Hearne, TX in 1947. The Black school was