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@ritodhi.bsky.social
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Feminist father, wannabe farmer, itinerant scholar interested in masculinity, political ecology, climate justice, STS, Agrarian Futures in South Asia, Pacific and Latin America

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Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · 29/09/2026
Boosting the signal so that others who may have some ideas is a huge help too!
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NORMA.International Journal for Masculinity Studies @normajournal.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Publication alert! If you are interested in gender & environmental issues you should know that we have just published a Special Issue on "planetary masculinities" edited by Kadri Aavik, Jeff Hearn, Martin Hultman & Tamara Shefer. Don't be a stranger and visit us: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Men, masculinities, and the planet at the end of (M)Anthropocene: ecological/social/economic/political relations, processes and consequences
Published in NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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The Wild Hunt News @thewildhunt.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Two Indigenous scholars are leading a new UNESCO Chair to restore Indigenous knowledge, research governance, & language—advancing climate resilience, cultural sovereignty, & global recognition of Indigenous matriarchal leadership. wildhunt.org/2025/06/new-... #UNESCO #IndigenousKnowledge #pagan
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New UNESCO Chair Puts Indigenous Knowledge and Rematriation at the Global Forefront - Canada, Indigenous Land, News, Paganism, U.S., World
Witchcraft & Pagan News - Two Indigenous scholars are leading a new UNESCO Chair to restore Indigenous knowledge, research governance, and language—advancing climate resilience, cultural sovereignty, ...
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Jaime Walsh @jaimewalsh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
an ecologist & human geographer walk into a bar... a wonderful reminder that meaningful work begins with a conversation. “a crescendo of…an interdisciplinary partnership” is a phrase i will be borrowing.
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Dialogues in Human Geography @dialogueshg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New Online 1st Commentary “Caring with and ‘real’ friendship among Zambia’s mineworkers” by Thomas McNamara doi.org/10.1177/2043...
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Rational_Geographic @ritodhi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Outsiders tell us these lands are barren, but are they?” His village depends on the surrounding pastoral land. Remove that, and the entire agricultural system collapses. #greencolonialism #statecapture #justice #Himalaya www.reporters-collective.in/trc/pillars-...
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Pillars of State Encroachment
Solar power projects are being planned across Ladakh. As the Union government maintains ambiguity over who controls the land in the region, people say it is encroaching on their land rights.
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Yayaver @yayaver02.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
yayaver.blogspot.com/2026/09/esse... #BookSky #Africa #Decolonization #Decolonisation #India #Asia #LatinAmerica For beginners
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Essential Books on Colonisation and Decolonisation
A curated list of books on colonialism, decolonisation, slavery, the British Empire, Indigenous history, Africa, India, Palestine and Latin America.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/05/2026
The real answer isn’t that students decided to shut up. It’s that universities, and a hostile federal government, have expended massive resources trying to ensure they do.
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“Where have all the student protests gone?”
Trump wanted campus crackdowns. Colleges couldn't wait to oblige.
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Rational_Geographic @ritodhi.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Saying the quiet part out loud #academia #capitalism #class
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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Geographies of Environmental Data 1 - Max Ritts, 2025
Massive changes to the physical environment over the last decade have been understood by geographers in relation to new social, economic, and institutional impe...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Opportunity for early career postdoctoral researchers to conduct research in Japan for 12-24 months. You'll receive a monthly maintenence stipend, a settling in allowance, a research grant and round trip air fare. Apply by 10 Dec www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Overseas Researchers 2026
The scheme provides funding for early career postdoctoral researchers to conduct cooperative research in Japan, with leading research groups in Japanese universities and other institutions, under the ...
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 27/10/2025
Carbon offsetting does not work. Not because of implementation details but because there are fundamental issues with the very idea of 'offsetting'. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why | Nature
The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed. The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed.
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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I have been letting the closing of @adaptationfutures.bsky.social simmer in my mind for the last day. What did we learn - what do we know about adaptation and what are the big questions? A brief thread to summarise what jumped out at me. 🧵 1/4
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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
“As Ngāi Tahu we migrated south to Te Waipounamu… We have been adapting all our lives. I think it’s really inspiring as a young person to think back to our ancestors and how they have succeeded because we are all here today.” The awesome Thomas Blakie at #AF2025 @adaptationfutures.bsky.social
Thomas Blakie standing at a podium at Te Pae with the panel on stage next to him.
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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Midway through Day 1 @adaptationfutures.bsky.social - thoughts: There are lots of people here doing adaptation work. Climate change is causing so much labour: research, planning etc. But if we don't rethink development, and our guiding mantra of growth, we will fail. And...
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Faisal Bin Islam @faisalfbi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
It was a privilege to share my research at the @adaptationfutures.bsky.social conference on #BeyondAdaptation—#Justice and #Maladaptation. Key message: Need to examine the power and knowledge underpinning the scalar dimension of maladaptation. @ritodhi.bsky.social @lisaschipper.bsky.social
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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Professor Steve Ratuva opening the panel at @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025 reminding us of the critical time we are in for adaptation and rollbacks of Indigenous Rights.
Steve Ratuva at a podium
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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
“We are trying to collect & safeguard knowledge that is there. In many countries that knowledge is held by few and the way that it was transferred before is hard to do now. Many of our people are moving away from our villages to cities.” Sefanaia Nawadra at #AF2025 @adaptationfutures.bsky.social
Sefanaia Nawadra on a podium
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Rational_Geographic @ritodhi.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
#gaza #poetry
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Excellent opportunity for #transdisciplinary and #interdisciplinary researchers: EVE project Fall School, to explore cutting-edge perspectives on environmental studies through the lens of Euro-African dialogue. Deadline is today, August 15th! www.eve-modules.eu/news/%f0%9f%...
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📢 Application Deadline Extended – Apply by 15 August! | Eve Modules
We are pleased to announce that the application deadline for the 2025 edition of the EVE Fall School has been extended to 15 August 2025. The programme will run fully online from 25 September to 27 No...
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APSA Urban and Local Politics Section @apsaurban.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
📢 Call for Papers! Urban Politics in the Global South Conference November 6-7, 2025 (fully virtual!) This conference showcases research on urban politics in low- and middle-income countries in different world regions. Deadline for Submissions: Sept. 5 Link: www.globalsouthurbanpolitics.com
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Urban Politics in the Global South is an annual virtual conference series that brings together the growing community of social scientists conducting research on urban politics in low- and middle-incom...
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Abrahm @abrahm.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A looming global water crisis may be under appreciated as climate change takes hold. Today I report on a new study that finds the planet is quickly drying, with mega-regions of water loss now stretching across continents. www.propublica.org/article/wate...
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“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
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Rational_Geographic @ritodhi.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
From Roque Dalton ❤️ #justice #earth #resistance
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Rational_Geographic @ritodhi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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Dust and Road @dustandroad.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
'The Military-Fossil Fuel Complex. A world system based on permanent war, and permament ecological crisis.' #ClimateChange #Energy #Oil #Conflict Via @graceblakeley.substack.com
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The Military-Fossil Fuel Complex
A world system based on permanent war, and permament ecological crisis.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
There are no red states, no blue states, only purple, from Idaho fuchsia to Vermont violet. And in every state there are children, non-citizens, and prisoners who can't vote. In every state where one candidate won, a bunch of people voted for the other candidate. And so forth.
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Israel continues to Starve, Target Gaza Civilians in ongoing Genocide
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Israel continues to Starve, Target Gaza Civilians in ongoing Genocide
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The fascist government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to wage war on Gaza civilians, in the longest and most intense violation of the Geneva Conventions, the Rome Statute and other elements of International Humanitarian Law in this century. The United Nations Human Rights office in the Occupied Palestinian territories […]
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
If people think American scientists are somehow going to land in Europe, I've got news for you about the difference between millions and billions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Bar chart titled "Matters of Scale" comparing proposed US research budget cuts to the European Union's €500-million (US$571-million) "Choose Europe" fund. The chart shows:

* National Institutes of Health (NIH): $8 billion in cancelled grants and $18 billion in proposed cuts by 2026 (long orange bar).
* National Science Foundation (NSF): $5.1 billion in proposed cuts by 2026 (shorter orange bar).
* EU's Choose Europe fund: $571 million (very short blue bar).

The graphic highlights that the EU fund is much smaller in scale compared to the US budget cuts. Text above the chart explains the EU’s intention to attract US researchers in response to policy decisions by the convicted felon and rapist Donald Trump.
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 29/06/2025
In Madrid, eight striking artworks depict the pain of the countless mothers in Gaza losing their children to senseless violence.
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Spanish artists reimagine Picasso's Guernica against the genocide in Gaza
In Madrid, eight striking artworks depict the pain of the countless mothers in Gaza losing their children to senseless violence.
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Lyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This is sadly very relevant and we need to talk about it more in relation to how wars and climate change are related
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
This is the New Zealand Luxon and co are giving us. While the Govt celebrates a reduction in emergency housing the people they have turfed out of emergency housing and/or refused to house have nowhere to go. This is the back on track they are celebrating. #NZpol A coalition of callous bastards.
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‘Heartbreaking’: Pensioners, children sleeping rough in Christchurch’s red zone
With more people weathering the South Island winter in cars and tents, support organisations said homelessness in Christchurch is “so sad”.
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Elephants don’t belong in zoos. It's time the UK banned their captivity for good. No more breeding, no more importation, no more excuses 🐘 Please sign & share 👇 www.change.org/p/uk-...
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UK Government: End Elephant Captivity
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Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
The Hindu Right has dispossessed India’s Muslims of meaningful political participation and fair representation in parliament and state assemblies, while radically altering electoral politics to cast #Muslims as a political liability, writes Harsh Mander
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The political erasure of Indian Muslims
INDIA IS HOME to 200 million Muslim people. More Muslims live here than in any other country in the world barring Indonesia and Pakistan.  Yet in 2023, the
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/05/2025
Microsoft - one of the highest emitters in big tech, missing its climate targets entirely JPMorgan chase - the world's biggest funder of fossil fuel projects Musk - techno-fascist climate delayer and denier who supports new oil and gas extraction and burns community-choking methane for a chatbot
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The military emissions gap -1st piece in our new series by @damiengayle.bsky.social Exclusive: Nato rearmament could increase greenhouse gas emissions by 200m tonnes a year. Latest global arms race looks set to worsen the climate crisis causing even more conflict www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Nato rearmament could increase emissions by 200m tonnes a year, study finds
Exclusive: researchers say defence spending boosts across world will worsen climate crisis which in turn will cause more conflict
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A 'Coal in India' explainer for @drilledmedia.bsky.social. Historical roots to nationalisation & back to privatisation, worker issues, Adani & state favour, resistance by Adivasi communities & police action & underground mining. Context: non-existent energy transition drilled.media/news/india-c...
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In India’s Coal Belt, a Window into the Challenges Facing Energy Transition
India’s reliance on coal is tied to a complex set of economic, social, and energy security factors; any successful energy transition plan will have to address all of them.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/05/2025
Nice summary of known data on the Spain blackout so far. It has become pretty clear that voltage played a major role in the blackout - very, very contrary to the speculation put out by Bloomberg columnists literally during the event media.licdn.com/dms/document...
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Rational_Geographic @ritodhi.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
“The #tech #bros that #Trump has surrounded himself with have wrapped #hypercapitalism in a technological cover, claiming that #technology can solve all woes & unlimited growth – read unlimited profits for the rich – is the only way to progress” www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.alja...
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No, Trump is not a fascist. He is a hypercapitalist and just as dangerous
Trump wants to free big capital from the constraints of democracy by dismantling it.
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Guillotine Hunger Force @handle.invalid · 17/05/2025
typical corrupt science
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The T. Rex may have been a lot smarter than you thought
Jan. 9, 2023 at 7:36 am | Updated Jan. 9, 2023 at 7:36 am
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 18/05/2025
Trump’s 2-year reprieve gives coal plants ‘a free pass to pollute’ #Climate
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Trump’s 2-year reprieve gives coal plants ‘a free pass to pollute’
A former EPA official warns exemption for some coal-fired power plants could be the first step toward gutting pollution rules for all plants
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Rational_Geographic @ritodhi.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
“As Trump administration has gutted foreign aid, diplomats have pressed governments to fast-track licenses for Starlink. U.S. officials said that for their foreign counterparts, helping Starlink is a chance to prove their commitment to good relations with U.S.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk.
The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers a...
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Rational_Geographic @ritodhi.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
The incredible @ruha9.bsky.social #credo #justice
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/05/2025
I swear to freaking god there was a time when a lawyer who was found to have forged information to use in a court would face a punishment stronger than having to deliver an apology Why the hell aren't the people who create harmful lies using automated tools facing WORSE consequences?
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Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation | TechCrunch
A lawyer representing Anthropic used Claude to generate citations in a court filing, then it hallucinated.
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Sakshi @sakshi.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
A brief summary of the pathology of a nation www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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King Charles’s wealth swells to match Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty on UK rich list
Sunday Times says monarch’s personal fortune has risen to £640m, while that of ex-PM and wife has fallen to that level
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Rational_Geographic @ritodhi.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
“💰#Economic development enables investment in climate knowledge production…This relationship between economic capital and #climate #knowledge has profound implications for participation in the #IPCC & ultimately, how climate is known and #governed” www.planetpolitics.org/ppi-blog/wri...
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Writing the meaning of climate change together and alone — Planet Politics Institute
As the Earth passes 1.5C of global heating, Hannah Hughes examines the politics of the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Finally saw "Sinners." GotDAMN that was good. It's so beautiful to see a Black creative, in the fullness of his power, ignore all the "shoulds" and conventions and just COOK. That movie was so good it made me come home and write.
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Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · 10/05/2025
🤔Somehow this sure seems familiar... #NZPOL
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Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
"What was it about this five-foot tall firebrand that threatened someone enough to have her murdered? At what point did online abuse tip over into real-world harm? Who had Gauri Lankesh angered, and why?" @lax_always writes:
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Why did they kill Gauri Lankesh?
IN A LAND where the majority is quick to take offence, and “hurting religious sentiments” is a crime, any transgression can be deadly. The food we eat, the clot
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