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This is the Catchup on 3 Things by The Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.Today is the 10th of April and here are today's headlines.China Pushes Back Against U.S. Tariffs, Warns of ConsequencesChina hit back sharply at Washington's escalating trade war rhetoric, saying it does not seek conflict but won't tolerate bullying either. Responding to the U.S. decision to raise tariffs on Chinese goods to 125% while pausing tariffs for other nations, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said at a press briefing, “This cause will not win popular support and will end in failure.” Lin emphasized that Beijing will defend its people's rights, signaling that retaliatory action may still be on the table. Meanwhile, Asian markets surged on news of the 90-day tariff pause for other countries, with Japan's Nikkei 225 soaring 8%, South Korea's Kospi rising over 5%, and Australia's ASX 200 up 5% in early trading.India Steers Clear of U.S. Tariff Clash, Eyes Fall Trade PactIndia responded cautiously as U.S. President Donald Trump announced a temporary suspension of his sweeping reciprocal tariffs, which went into effect Wednesday. Just hours before the announcement, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar confirmed that India is actively engaging with Washington to finalize a bilateral trade agreement by the fall. Speaking at the News18 Rising Bharat Summit, Jaishankar avoided directly commenting on Trump's controversial statements about trade partners, saying only, “We've been constructive in our engagement, and so have they.” India appears to be walking a fine line—avoiding confrontation while quietly working to secure a stable trade relationship.Tahawwur Rana Extradited from U.S., Special Prosecutor AppointedIndia has taken a key step toward justice in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case. The Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday night appointed a special public prosecutor for a three-year term to lead the prosecution of Tahawwur Rana, who is being extradited from the United States. Sources confirmed that a senior team from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and intelligence services has taken custody of Rana, who is expected to arrive in Delhi by Thursday. Rana is accused of aiding the planning of the deadly 2008 attacks in Mumbai, which left more than 160 people dead.Kashmir Cleric Says Police Blocked Religious Meet Over Waqf ActMirwaiz Umar Farooq, the prominent religious leader and head of the Muttahida Majlis Ulema (MMU), accused Jammu and Kashmir police of halting a planned meeting of clerics at his Srinagar residence. The gathering was meant to discuss concerns over the Waqf Act, which governs religious endowments in the region. Calling the police action unjust, Mirwaiz said religious leaders must be allowed to deliberate peacefully. He added that a joint resolution would be read in mosques across the Valley on Friday. The MMU also pledged support to the All India Muslim Personal Law Board's legal challenge to the Act.Israeli Airstrike Kills 23 in Gaza as Conflict DeepensA deadly Israeli airstrike hit a residential building in northern Gaza's Shijaiyah neighborhood on Wednesday, killing at least 23 people, including eight women and eight children, according to officials at Al-Ahly Hospital. The Gaza Health Ministry confirmed the toll and said rescue teams were still searching through rubble for survivors. Nearby buildings were also damaged, according to Gaza's civil defense, which operates under the Hamas-run government. The strike is the latest in a wave of intensifying attacks, as the humanitarian crisis worsens in the besieged Palestinian enclave with no signs of a ceasefire in sight.That's all for today. This was the CatchUp on 3 Things by The Indian Express.

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Last time we continued to speak about the insane battle over Southern Xinjiang. In Yarkland, chaos erupted as inflation soared, prompting Chinese officials to retreat to fortified New City. Panic led to desperate measures, including the use of dummy figures for defense. As insurgents advanced, Colonel Chin's forces looted and fled, sparking violence against Uyghurs and Hindu moneylenders. By April, rebel forces captured Kashgar, fracturing Chinese control. Amid shifting alliances, Ma Chanzeng sought power, but internal strife among leaders like Temur culminated in further violence and betrayal, with power ultimately shifting to the Khotanlik provisional government under Muhammad Amin Bughra. Abdullah's revelation ignited conflict among Muslim troops. The Uyghurs and Kirghiz briefly united against the Chinese, ultimately capturing the New City. As tensions rose, massacres occurred, fracturing alliances and leading to a power struggle. After the execution of Uyghur leader Temur, Abdullah seized control of Yarkland, while charismatic Tawfiq Bay rallied forces against the Tungans. Eventually, the Khotan Amirs dominated the region, achieving unity amidst chaos, leaving only the besieged Tungans at bay.   #135 Kumul Rebellion part 4: The reunification of Xinjiang Welcome to the Fall and Rise of China Podcast, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about the history of Asia? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on history of asia and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel where I cover the history of China and Japan from the 19th century until the end of the Pacific War. Do you remember Ma Chongying, basically the guy that started most of this madness? Following him getting severely wounded at Liaotun in autumn of 1932, he had withdrawn the majority of his forces to his old domain in northwestern Gansu. He set up a HQ at Anxi and through his subordinates began expanding territory and increasing recruitment via conscription. The British missionaries Mildred Cable and Francesca French were living in Tunhuang at the time and wrote extensively about Ma Congying's recruitment efforts “The town was robbed of everything in the nature of food, goods and money ... next to food the most coveted possessions of the oases were the young, vigorous, hardy men ... These were the men whom Ma Chung-ying wanted for gun fodder, and orders were issued to the press-gang to fetch them in from every farm of the neighborhood, and collect them in Tunhuang City. Every day we saw them being rounded up. The ropes which they themselves had twisted from desert grass were used to tie their hands behind their backs, and to noose their necks in a running-knot. Roped together in droves of twenty to thirty, according to the success of the raid, they were brought to town by captors who rode the horses levied from these boys' own stables. Thrust behind the high palings of temple courtyards, the imprisoned youths lined the barriers, looking out for some passers-by who might belong to their own group of farmsteads and would take a report home that son or husband had been captured”. After initial training at Tunhuang, the recruits were taken to Anxi for further training. Cable and French were ordered to Anxi to aid Ma Chongying with his wounds and to  take care of other Tungans who reportedly had been injured by fire arrows during the siege of Kumul Old City. They did a good job as within a short amount of time Ma Chongying was able to ride again.  Back in Xinjiang, following the failed Uyghur led rebellion at Kumul and facing another imminent Tungant invasion in the Turfan area Jin Shujen turned increasingly to the USSR for help. In September of 1931 he bought two biplanes for the Soviets at 40,000 Mexican silver dollars each. The planes came with two Russian pilots and on October 1st, Jin signed a secret trade deal with the USSR allowing 8 Soviet trading agencies to set up shop in Urumqi, Chuguchak, Kashgar, Kulja, Aksu, Kucha, Khotan and Yarkland. Customs duties on Soviets goods were reduced and a new Xinjiang-Soviet telegraph line and radio communications were established. Jin signed these deals illegally without notifying Nanjing and in return received economic and military assistance from the Soviets. In July of 1932 he would receive another 8 aircraft. Yet despite the Soviet assistance, Jin's provincial forces with the exception of Peppengut's White Russian detachment remained ill trained and ill officered. Following the relief of Kumul Old City and Ma Chongyings retreat back to Gansu, Chang Peiyuan, the provincial commander in chief and military governor of Ili went to Urumqi. It appears that Jin did not fully trust Chang Peiyuan, possibly fearing that the victory at Kumul had stirred up dangerous ambitions in Chang. This distrust seemed to be mutual, as Chang, upon receiving orders to transfer to the provincial capital, chose to defy them and returned to Ili in an act bordering on open rebellion. In response, Jin appointed Sheng Shihtsai, Chang's Chief-of-Staff during the Kumul campaign, as the new Provincial Commander-in-Chief. This decision would have significant implications both for Jin's future and for the future of Xinjiang. Sheng Shihtsai was born in 1895 in Liaoning Manchuria. He was the son of a small landowner. In 1917 he traveled to Japan to study political economics at Waseda University and came back to China in 1919 to participate in the May 4th movement. During that time he developed radical and anti-Japanese stances. He then joined the military training school in Guangdong and later enrolled in the northeastern military academy. He entered military service under Guo Songling, haha that old cry baby, who was deputy under Zhang Zuolin. Sheng Shihtsai rose through the ranks becoming a Lt Colonel. In 1924 Guo Songling sponsored Sheng's admission to the Shikan Gakko military academy in Japan. Sheng returned briefly to help Guo Songlings failed coup against Zhang Zuolin, but was able to escape imprisonment with support from Feng Yuxiang and Chiang Kai-Shek. They got him a ticket back to Japan, and he returned to China in 1927 to participate in the northern expedition as a staff officer attached to Chiang Kai-Sheks HQ. After the northern expedition, he was made chief of war operations section of the General staff at Nanjing, but in 1929 resigned as he did not get along with his superiors. After all of this he took an interest in China's border defences. At the time a delegation from Xinjiang visited Nanjing searching for financial aid. Jin Shujen had instructed one of his delegates, Kuang Lu the deputy General secretary of Xinjiang, to find an able bodied officer to help reorganize Xinjiang's military. Kuang Lu fished around and found Sheng who looked like a very promising man. Sheng then traveled via the USSR arriving to Urumqi in the winter of 1929. His initial welcome was a luke warm one as Jin was suspicious of this highly qualified overseas educated man, obviously seeing him as a potential threat. Moreover, Jin's brother Jin Shuxin hated Sheng's appointment because the man outshined him. Despite the jealousy, Jin was basically grasping at straws and needed the help so he made Sheng the chief of staff over the Xinjiang Frontier Army and also the instructor at the provincial military college.  In the words of historian Chan Fooklam “Sheng's appointment was like Jin burying a time bomb under his bed, he had brought upon himself his own doom”. Despite receiving aid from the Soviets and British, Jin's grip over Xinjiang was slipping away. In May of 1932 Ma Chongying had dispatched Ma Shuming to take over the Tungan operation against Turfan. As we talked about, Ma Fuming, leading the provincial forces at Turfan simply defected. Also at this time Chang Peiyuan's insubordination was breaking out, easing the way for Sheng to be promoted to commander in chief. Sheng was directing an unsuccessful campaign against Uyghur insurgents at Karlik Tagh. Following news of Ma Fumings defection and the Tungan capture of Turfan, Sheng advanced west from Kumul to try and prevent the combined Muslim forces from marching upon Urumqi. After a bloody two day battle he recaptured Turfan, but this has little effect over Ma Shuming who had already moved his HQ to Kara Shahr.  During mid-winter, Ma Shuming's Tungan cavalry and Ma Fumings Turkic insurgents began an advance to Urumqi. At some point a force of provincial troops sent to Urumqi by Jin, specifically to guard the Dawan Cheng Pass were ambushed and annihilated by the Tungans. Meanwhile full scale rebellions had broken out at Kucha led by Temur and at Khotan led by the Amirs. To this Jin responded by expanding Pappenguts White Russian detachment from its original strength of 250 to 1500 men. The White Russians, most of whom came from Ili Valley, had literally no choice but to enlist. Alongside threatening any White Russians with deportation to the USSR, Jin also arrested many Russian women to compel their husbands to enlist. By early January of 1933, Ma Shumings Tungans had crossed the Dawan Cheng and were now operating at will in the Chaiwupao corridor, to the immediate south of the capital. Wu Aichen the political envoy on behalf of Nanjing reported on January 29th, that the city gates were suddenly closed and a month of food shortages and communal tensions rose. Wu Aichen would witness the brutality of the war. In his reports, the Tungans advanced towards the city during the night, seizing the Great West Bridge after a heavy fight. The Provincial commander defending the city only had 700 troops under him and if it was not for 300 White Russian troops suddenly arriving, the city most likely would have fallen then. Wu Aichen described the White Russian troops as superb fighters, albeit savagely drunk as they drove back the Tungan and Uyghurs during two days of hand to hand combat. Meanwhile Tungans had captured the radio station and a nearby height called Devil's Hill which overlooked the Urumqi suburbs. The Chinese officials feared letting in any more Muslim civilians to the Old City, thus they kept the city gates causing large numbers of refugees from the suburbs to gather outside the walls. This was particularly evident at the west gate which became the focal point of the fighting. Wu Aichen witnessed much of it and had this to say. “In times of peace this street was one of the most prosperous in the city, but now it was crowded With innocent fugitives, whose plight was terrible indeed. There was was worse to come, however, for now the advancing rebels came to this quarter and seizing the houses made loop-holes in the walls. In the flat roofs they set up machine-gun posts which could enfilade Government positions on either side of them. I could see for myself that the situation was desperate and that our troops would be pinned against the walls. General Pai, who was in command, did not hesitate. He gave the order that the street of the small religion should be set on fire. Then followed a scene so frightful that the reader's imagination must suffice. As the flames swept down the long lane of wooden structures they became an inferno of horror, for the roar of the conflagration was added to the rattle of gunfire, .and the hideous shrieks of those who were trapped. The rebels sought safety in flight, and as they crossed the open were machine-gunned from the Red Mountain; but the fugitives had nowhere to fly to and perished to the last man, woman and child. Nevertheless the city was saved, and when at last the flames died down the approach to the West Bridge was strewn with the bodies of our assailants. On the evening of the second day I had completed ten thousand words of copying. I asked how many were dead. I was told at least two thousand. Once again I returned to my task, reflecting that a human life had been taken at every fifth word”. Following the defeat, the Muslim forces had to pull back from the West Gate area, however, they still held control over the West Bridge, a mere half mile northwest. This gave them a great launchpad for night raids and many would be killed trying to scale the walls under the mouths of guns. The White Russian troops emerged as the backbone of the defenses, holding the city walls and making occasional sorties. Urumqi would have fallen if it was not for Sheng Shihtsai who came to her aid with his troops from Turfan. Upon seeing his relief forces the Muslim insurgents broke off their attack and withdrew into the surrounding countryside. With winter coming to an end, with fear of a cholera outbreak looming the Chinese went to work burying the dead. Wu Aichen was one of those who helped with the burials and wrote a horrifying description about the conditions of the city. Over 1000 bodies were buried in a single mass grave within the suburbs and the final death toll was estimated to exceed 6000. Following the relief of Urumqi, the Muslim insurgents seized all they could in the countryside such as Dawan Cheng, the districts of Fukang and parts of Santopao where an estimated 900 Han Chinese were killed. The insurgents burned the stocks of rice that usually fed the capital and on March 1st a detachment of 100 provincial troops were ambushed and annihilated at Chitaowan. The situation throughout the province deteriorated; to the south Ma Shaowu had isolated Kashgar and in the north a Kazakh rebellion broke out in the Sahara Sume region under Sharif Khan. The Kazakh uprising convinced the Soviets that Jin Sujen was going to inevitably lose Xinjiang. They acted without any notice to Nanjing by dispatching forces to help hold up Urumqi. Fate would have it, 2000 battle hardened Chinese troops had recently been driven over the Heilongjiang border into Siberia by the Japanese during the invasion of Manchuria. So Stalin signed off on sending them over the trans-siberian and Turk-sib railways to the Xinjiang frontier of Chuguchak. This force designated the Northeast National Salvation Army consisted of regular soldiers who were well trained and held good morale. They arrived to Urumqi on March 27th of 1933, substantially bolstering the provincial military, more particularly that of the new Provincial commander in chief, Sheng Shihtsai who just so happened to also be a Manchurian.  Sheng led the new forces to push back the invading Tungans of Ma Shuming who was forced over the Dawan Cheng back to his HQ at Kara Shahr. The Uyghur insurgents were demoralized and Khoja Niyas Hajji who controlled a belt around the Xinjiang-Gansu frontier began begining for assistance from Ma Chongying. Meanwhile Jin basically was undermined by Sheng and was seeing further unrest in Urumqi. The White Russians who had bore the brunt of the fighting to defend Urumqi were royally pissed off as they had not all been paid and were provided the worst horses and ammunition of all the defenders. Moreover Jin's popularity with all nationalities, even Han Chinese had fallen dramatically because his brother Jin Shuxin had reportedly exorted the granaries during the siege. Following the relief of Urumqi, Pappengut and the other White Russians approached the leaders of the northeast national salvation army with grievances against Jin Shujen and were given assurances of support to mount a coup against him. On April 12th, around 400 White Russians stormed the capital with 200 of them seizing the city gates and yamen. Jin managed to escape over the city walls and fled to the USSR via Chuguchak. From there he returned to China via the Turk-Sib and Trans-Siberian. Meanwhile his younger brother Jin Shuxin was captured and executed. Sheng Shihtsai was encamped at Uruba at the time of the coup and insisted in his future memoirs he had nothing to do with the coup and that it was all the USSR's doing. Regardless after the coup Sheng was urged to go to Urumqi where negotiations began with Liu Wenlung who was appointed Provincial Chairman while Sheng was made Tupan or “border defense commissioner”. Ie; Sheng was made the de facto ruler of Xinjiang.  After Ma Shumings failure to take Urumqi and Khoja Niyas Hajji's pleas for help, Ma Chongying determined to reenter the fray in person. Despite the setbacks, the Tungans had crossed the Dawan Cheng and nearly taken the capital, coupled with the seizure of Kashgar, Ma Chongying most likely believed there was still a great chance to take it all. He had spent 18 months rebuilding his army and better yet, because of the USSR's illegal move to save Urumqi, Nanjing officially recognizing his Tungan forces as the 36th division of the NRA. Ma Chongying moved his HQ from Anxi to Suzhou and really improved his military. A German engineer named Vasel working with him described him as a man who admired Napoleon, Bismarck and Hindenburg and who “was frequently to be seen running at the head of his troops during training, even in sub-zero temperature. Military training was pursued with a spartan rigour, pushed to the verge of utter ruthlessness. Desertion was punishable by death, and on one occasion I saw Ma personally behead five such offenders. In one of those sudden fits of exuberance that were typical of him, snatching up casually some hand grenades, which he had made himself, and hurling them, one by one, against the lofty clay-coloured walls of the city. And then he laughed heartily when he saw his men fling themselves flat on the ground as splinters of steel hurtled in all directions. He scorned to seek safety by throwing himself on the ground, and was quite delighted when he saw that I too did not seek cover”. During spring of 1933, Ma Chongying prepared to reinvade Xinjiang. A Swedish man named Bexeill was working along the Gansu-Qinghai border and noted Ma Chongying heavily taxed his territory in northwestern Gansu to the limits of the peasants endurance. He apparently even sent troops into Qinghai to illegally tax them. By May of 1933 his army departed Suhou for Yumen and Vasel gives us this description of them. “A dark mass of human beings, camels and oxen, was pouring out of the city gate towards the west amid clouds of dust. There were hundreds of heavily-laden camels, the bells on their necks clanging monotonously, their drivers easily discernible by their gaudy headgear. In the rear followed high-wheeled ox-carts, flanked on either side by infantry. Behind them again came a company of cavalry, which presently galloped past the lumbering camels and oxen along the track through the desert ... and now I had an opportunity of seeing at close range General Ma's famous cavalry riding past me and keeping its post at the head of the marching columns. This was the famous white cavalry regiment of which General Ma was especially proud. The broad iron swords of the dragoons clanked as they rode along on their magnificent white horses, while on their shoulders they carried carbines of the most varied and antiquated patterns. Next came the brown regiment, while in the rear followed the black regiment, comprising some two thousand horsemen. A short distance behind the cavalry came the infantry - regiment after regiment, headed by the Chinese (Kuomintang) standard. On they swept, platoon after platoon, followed by their officers, with their mausers at the ready. The columns strode along, keeping perfect time with their shrill, high-pitched, mournful, Asiatic marching songs. Sandwiched between some of these trained and trustworthy soldiers I saw large drafts of recruits who had been compelled to join General Ma's forces. These raw levies were constantly kept under very close observation'. On Top of Ma Chongyings new Tungan army, young Uyghurs were also conscripted into his ranks. 2500 Tungans under the command of his younger brother Ma Chongjie captured Kumul in May with little opposition. This was because the area was dominated by Ma Chongyings ally Khoja Niyas Hajji. After this Ma Chongjie issued bilingual proclamations to the people of Kumul, stating they were free of Jin Shujen's tyranny, who at the time was in the USSR. Meanwhile Sheng hurriedly prepared a force of 5000 to meet the invaders near Urumqi. Ma Chongying advanced upon Qiqiaoqing unopposed, getting even further west than his first invasion of 1931. Instead of taking the main road to Turgan, the Tungans crossed the narrow defile between Barkul Tagh and Bogdo Ula to hit the garrison town of Kitai. The first major battle broke out near Mulei, due east of Kitai on May 15th. Two days later a mixed force of 4000 Tungans and Turkic Muslims attacked Kitai led by Ma Chongjie. On May 26th Sheng sortied from Urumqi at the head of 5000 men, 1000 of whom were White Russians. Sheng planned to hold Santai, the halfway point between Urumqi and Kitai. Sheng's men attacked the invaders around Kitai, but lost the battle for the city, though Ma Chongjie was killed in battle. Sheng then retreated back to Urumqi by June 1st. Things looked dire for Sheng, he was unsure how Nanjing would react to the coup against Jin Shujen, his position was threatened to the east by Ma Chongying now headquartered at Kitai and to the west by Chang Peiyuan the military governor of Ili whom he suspected was not loyal to Urumqi and in league with the Tungans. Ma Chongying was now within striking distance of Urumqi, when he suddenly halted his attack and sent a telegram with terms. It turns out Ma Chongying had no idea Jin Shujen had been overthrown, so he was unsure how to proceed. This bought Sheng more time to raise defenses, sending the White Russians to hold Fukang as he dispatched Wu Aichen on a peace mission to Kitai. Wu Aichen's mission failed, so Sheng went to Fukang to take personal command of the army and to meet Ma Chongying around the hamlet of Zuniquan. During the battle of mid June, the provincial forces managed to gain the upper hand due to severe weather conditions for which the lightly clothed Tungans were ill prepared for. The Uyghurs forces of Khoja Niyas Hajji also took no part in the fighting despite being in the immediate area. The Tungans were defeated at Zuniquan, but not routed. Ma Chongyings men managed to retreat in well order to Qiqiaoqing and from there advanced to Turfan joined Tungan forces under Ma Shuming. Combined the Tungans marched to Dawan Cheng. At the same time a Pacification Commissioner, Huang Musung was sent by Nanjing to Urumqi. His mission was to establish peace between the provincial forces and Ma Chongying, both of whom claimed loyalty to Nanjing. Sheng was suspicious of Huang Musung and felt Nanjing might be simply backing the Tungans. Thus Sheng had Huang Musung placed under house arrest. Then Sheng accused three Xinjiang officials of plotting with Huang Musung, Chang Peiyuan and Ma Chongying to overthrow him and had them all executed via a firing squad. Thus Sheng clearly had distanced himself from Nanjing and turned 100% to the USSR for help. During early Autumn Ma Chongying was still in Turfan reorganizing the forces while Sheng was consolidating his position in Urumqi and quelling the Kazakh rebellion.  Meanwhile Khoja Niyas Hajji was growing uneasy with his alliance to Ma Chongying and began to open up secret negotiations with Sheng and soon was appointed Chief Defense commissioner for Southern Xinjiang. He then took his Uyghurs across the Dawan Cheng and occupied Toksun only to be surprise attacked and decisively defeated by Tungans under Ma Shuming. By late July Khoja Niyas Hajji took his battered survivors and fled for Kucha. At this point Huang Musung managed to secure his release from house arrest by telegramming Nanjing the recommendation that Sheng Shihtsai and Liu Wenlung be confirmed in their posts as the chief military and civil authorities over Xinjiang. Nanjing had really no options other than to comply.  On September 2nd Lo Wenkan, the foreign minister of Nanjing, came to Urumqi and officially confirmed Sheng into office and then mediated between Sheng and Ma Chongying. To compensate Ma Chongying he was offered the post of Garrison Commander of Eastern Xinjiang which he accepted, thus gaining control over Kumul, Barkul and part of Turfan. After Lo Wenkan departed in early October, suddenly Sheng announced the discovery of a new plot against him. He accused Liu Wenlung of conspiring with Ma Chongying, Chang Peiyuan and Lo Wenkan to overthrow him. Liu Wenlung was forced to resign and was replaced as the provincial chairman by Zhu Juixi. Sheng then prepared a final hammer blow against Ma Chongying. However Ma Chongying had secretly been working with Ma Shuming to deliver a lighting stroke against Urumqi which came in December of 1933. Tungan forces passed Dawan Cheng and began attacking the capital. Likewise in response to the constant accusations, Chang Peiyuan finally threw his support to the Tungans. He led his troops across the Talki Pass into Zungharia and attacked the Provincial forces stationed at Wusu. Meanwhile encouraged by the advance of the Gansu Tungans, the indigenous Tungans of Zungharia rose en masse to Ma Chongyings banner. In late december a detachment of the 36th NRA led by Ma Shuming bypassed Urumqi and attacked Chuguchak. Vasel happened to witness this and described the battle as such “The sun's rays, by this time, were shining obliquely across the street and showed us the Tungan army entering the town ... Stirrup to stirrup, the young regular soldiers in their smart uniforms looked a well-disciplined, trim and efficient force. r recognised one of their officers, Ma Shih-ming, the Commander-in-Chief's adjutant, who had frequently been my guest in Soochow. These regular soldiers rode past on beautiful horses, while huge red flags floated in the breeze above their heads, bearing the character 'Ma' in black letters on a white ground. At a short distance followed a horde that was tolerably well equipped . . . I saw needle-guns, blunderbusses and muzzle-loaders ... In their rear dense clouds of dust, which shut out the light, billowed onward, and then came the infantry. . . men with wild eyes and matted hair. . . outlaws who had nothing to lose and everything to gain from the upheaval that was going on. After the infantry followed a huge horde of camels, with their rhythmical swaying gait, laden with produce and goods of every conceivable type ... the breath came from their mouths like smoke - their necks were craned forward, and their heads kept bobbing up and down.”With the Tungans taking Zunghaira, the Khotan Amirs running amok in the south and Chang Peiyuan joining the fray, Sheng's position at Urumqi was hopeless. While Ma Chongying and Sheng Shihtsai continued their struggle in the north, in the south Muhammad Amin Bughra woo'd Khoja Niyas Hajji to become president of a new secessionist Islamic state. Thus was born the Turkic Islamic Republic of Eastern Turkestan ie TIRET. While Khoja Niyas Kajji was the quote president, this was simply symbolic, the real leadership remained with the Amirs. Amir Abdulah retained control over Yarkland, Amir Nur Ahmad Jan over Yangi Hissar and Kashgar and Bughra over Khotan. Shari a law was implemented, a national flag with a white star and crescent over a blue ground was made and the new state sought aid and recognition from Britain. But the TIRET would never receive said recognition or aid, for Britain respected Nanjing's government as the sole authority in Xinjiang. TIRET turned next to Turkey, but found no real help. Then they turned to Afghanistan who likewise could not help them. TIRET was doomed from the very beginning. Meanwhile the battles raged between Sheng and Ma Chongying. Sheng knew Nanjing would not assist him so he turned to the USSR. Sheng dispatched diplomats Chen Teli and Yaoxiong to Moscow pleading for assistance. The Soviets were sympathetic and quite concerned with events such as the rise of TIRET and the possibility of Ma Chongying capturing Urumqi as they suspected him and TIRET to have ties to the Japanese. Weary of Germany and Japan, the USSR took up a policy of curbing any influence from either, especially in her Central Asian frontiers. The Soviets sent this warning to Nanjing “'We do not mind if you Chinese develop [Eastern] Turkestan. But if you permit [Eastern] Turkestan to become a second Manchuria, we must act to protect ourselves. '” Thus in late 1933, following pleas for help from Sheng Shihtsai, the Soviets chose to intervene on behalf of Sheng, whom was known to be a loose cannon and unreliable, but atleast was anti-Japanese. The USSR appointed Apresoff as the new consul-general at Urumqi and upon his arrival Sheng conducted a purge. Officers from the Northeast National Salvation army and White Russian volunteers were arrested and shot, including Pappengut. The White Russians units were reorganized under the command of new Soviet officers. Sheng signed a secret deal with the USSR to allow them to build a railway from Sergiopol, through Chuguchak to Urumqi. Sheng also announced 6 new principles going forward (I) anti-imperialism, (2) kinship to Sovietism, (3) racial or national equality, (4) 'clean' government, (5) peace, and (6) reconstruction.  The Soviets were pleased and after receiving approval from Nanjing dispatched two brigades, numbered some 7000 men supported by tanks, artillery and aircraft against the insurgent positions at Kulja and Chuguchak. The Soviets had orders to “clear the roads and liquidate the rebellion”. They rapidly overwhelmed the forces of Chang Peiyuan who committed suicide in shame. The Tungans of Ma Shuming put up a better fight but were dislodged from the Chuguchak area. According to Vasel, the Tungans managed to beat back some attacks during 30 days of battle. In one instance the Tungans foiled a Soviet pincer attack by “crawling through the snow, camouflaged by reversed sheepskins, and storming, from a very short distance, Soviet machine-gun posts whilst wielding the characteristic curved sword of Islam”. The main battle broke out on the frost-bound banks of the Tutun River, 30 miles northwest of Urumqi. According to The Times correspondent Peter Fleming , “the Battle of the Tutun River 'raged for several days; but the Tungans' unskilled ferocity was no match for a mechanised foe, and the troops ... were badly demoralised by gas bombs dropped by the Soviet airmen”.  Both the Soviets and Tungans took heavy casualties, but ultimately the Soviets won, forcing Ma Chongying to retreat from Urumqi to the Dawan Cheng, pursued by a mixed force of Soviets, White Russians and Chinese. The Tungans attempted to make a stand at Dawan Cheng, but according to Vasel “a detachment of Soviet troops supported by armoured cars was attacked by a force of some 500 Tungans. After savage hand-to-hand fighting the Soviet forces were driven back, and their armoured cars were rolled off the mountainside by the victorious Tungans. At this juncture, by a strange twist of fate, the surviving Soviet troops were relieved by a force of White Russian 'volunteers', and Ma Chung-ying was forced to continue his retreat through Toksun to Korla”. Meanwhile in Southern Xinjiang, the Soviets tried to break the TIRET. A Soviet backed force of irregulars known as the “Tortunjis” was set up at Ulug Chat, led by Yusuf Jan. The Soviets also negotiated secretly with Khoja Niyas Hajji who despite being the president of the TIRET had taken all of his forces to Aksu. As a result Khoja Niyas Hajji received Soviet arms in return for turning against his anti-soviet colleagues. Yet despite Soviet support, Khoja Niyas Hajji's Uyghur forces were decisively defeated by 800 Tungans under Ma Chongying. Khoja Niyas Hajji had to abandon his HQ at Aksu fleeing for Kashgar with 1500 men on January 13th of 1934. The Tungans soon besieged Kashgar New City forcing Khoja Niyas Hajji and local forces under Sabit Damullah to withdrew towards Yangi-Hissar, then held by Nur Ahmad Jan. Within 24 hours the Tungan advance guard led by Ma Fuyuan entered Kashgar meeting little resistance. According to British Consulate General Thomson-Glover “'some 800 Tungans and 1,200 conscripts caused nearly 10,000 rebel troops to flee from Kashgar'” To make thing more complicated at this time Ma Shaowu assumed senior military and civil control on behalf of Nanjing and at the request of Ma Chanzeng and Ma Fuyuan. Thus the capital of TIRET was recaptured for Nanjing, but not by their approved forces under Sheng, but of those under Ma Chongying. Following the fall of Kashgar, TIRET moved its administration to Yangi-Hissar. Meanwhile Khoja Niyas Hajji fled to Irkeshtam on the Soviet border and there signed a treaty with the USSR to dissolve the TIRET and relinquished his forces to be used by the Xinjiang provincial authorities against the Tungans and Khotan Amirs. For this he was rewarded Civil Governor for life over Xinjiang with Sheng Shihtsai retaining military governorship. On February 14th, the Khotanlik forces tried but failed to recapture Kashgar. In response for two days the Tungans systematically looted Kashgar old city while they massacred nearly 2000 of its citizenry. Then Ma Chanzeng and Ma Fuyuan advanced to Yangi-Hissar where on March 28th looted its old city and killed everyone they got their hands on. In the face of the Tungan onslaught, Amir Nur Ahmad Jan fled into Yangi Hissar New City and Sabit Damullah fled for Yarkland. Nur Ahmad Jan led a fierce resistance at the New City until April 2nd when Amir Abdullah arrived from Yarkland with several thousand troops. However caught out in the open, Abdullah's men were obliterated by the Tungans and Abdullah was cut down and his severed head was sent to Kashgar to be exhibited outside the Id-gah Mosque. Yangi-Hissar New City continued to resist, “wielding only rifles and conserving their scanty ammunition and rolling back the attackers scaling the walls by means of large stones and tree trunks”. The Tungans took New City on April 12th, putting 500 of its defenders and Nur Ahmad Jan to the sword. Meanwhile the administration of TIRET received word of Khoja Niyas Hajji's deal with the Soviets and refused to dissolve. Thus Khoja Niyas Hajji went to Yarkland to try and convince Amir Muhammad Amin Bughra to dissolve the TIRET. He arrived there in Mid April, only a few days before the Tungas would. Bughra fled towards Khotan as Khoja Niyas Hajji looted Yarkland taking Sabit Damullah prisoner and advanced to Aksu. The Tungans arrived at Yarkland on the 20th and immediately pursued Khoja Niyas Hajji. Khoja Niyas Hajji managed to get to Aksu where he handed over Sabit Damullah who was promptly hung. Meanwhile Ma Chongying arrived at Kashgar with 10,000 men on April 6th where he denounced Sheng Shihtsai as a Soviet Puppet and stressed loyalty to Nanjing to its population. Other Tungan forces captured Sarikol and together marched upon Khotan. Khotan was taken on June 12th without a fight and unlike at Kashgar and Yangi-Hissar, the Tungans did not loot, but instead hunted down Muhammad Amin Bughra who had escaped with 3000 troops towards Keriya. Bughra managed to give them all the slip and fled with several ponies carrying hold to Ladakh in British India where he received permission to travel to Srinagar. Thus ended the TIRET experiment as Ma Chongying claimed he had recaptured southern Xinjiang for Nanjing. Ma Chongying then met with Thomson Glover “that he had come to Kashgar 'to try and save south Sinkiang from Russian influence', and continued to stress his loyalty to Nanjing”.  Meanwhile Ma Chongying set up a defensive line at Maral Bashi and Fayzabad with his brother in law, Ma Hushan in command. During May and June of 1934 Ma Chongying tried to gain sympathy from the British for his cause, but they refused to get involved. In a surprising turn of events, as told to us by Thomson Glover “Ma Chung-ying left Kashgar for Irkeshtam early on 7th July with three or four of his officers. . . and an escort of some 50 Tungans and one or more members of the USSR Consulate or Trade Agency. Arrived near the border to Russia the escort were met by Russian or Russian-employed troops. The Tungan escort dispersed or handed over their arms to some of Khoja Niyas' levies, and Ma Chung-ying disappeared into Russia”. Why the courageous Tungan threw in the towel is a mystery. He had not yet been deceive beaten, he could have taken his Tungan force and held out for 3 years before returning back to Gansu. Regardless the Soviets had offered him sanctuary and he just took it. His fate is a complete mystery, some say he was killed by the Soviets, some say he rotted in a dungeon, that he lived a life of luxury as a Soviet guest, and one claim is that in 1938, when Sheng Shihtsai visited Moscow, Stalin had him executed as a gift. Ma Chongyings command passed to Ma Hushan who set up a HQ at Khotan and carved out a sphere of influence extending from Karghalik to CHarkhlik. The provincial forces did nothing to stop him, and instead signed a truce, ending the wars with the Tungans. Sheng Shihtsai had won, he now held absolute power over Xinjiang, though as we will see much later on, Xinjiang was certainly not done seeing battles. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. Thus in the end, after all of these different groups of people formed uprisings, betrayed one another and fought this large game of thrones for Xinjiang, it was Sheng Shihtsai who prevailed above all. Xinjiang was by no means stable and would continue to see chaos well into WW2 however.   

Welcome to Top of the Morning by Mint, your weekday newscast that brings you five major stories from the world of business. It's Friday, January 17, 2025. This is Nelson John, let's get started. The upcoming Union budget for 2025-26 is set to focus heavily on agriculture, small businesses, boosting household spending, and creating more jobs, Dhirendra Kumar and Gireesh Chandra Prasad report. The plan is to introduce farmer incentives, support for MSMEs, and measures to increase consumer spending. Expect the budget to zoom in on promoting high-value agriculture—things like fruits, vegetables, and animal farming—to help small farmers grow their incomes. This will be backed by investments in technology and better marketing strategies. For MSMEs, the budget might offer easier credit options and ensure they get paid on time by larger companies. There could also be incentives for making industries like rice milling more energy-efficient, aligning with the nation's renewable energy targets. This week equity markets were hit hard, with investors losing over ₹12 trillion on Monday. A strong dollar and worries about fewer US rate cuts have drained liquidity and led to massive sell-offs globally. As the dollar index has climbed 9% since October, betting on a robust US economy and sustained inflation, riskier assets like emerging market equities have lost their lustre. Higher US treasury yields suggest that fewer rate cuts might be in store for 2025, further dampening the mood. In India, the economic outlook isn't too rosy either. Reduced government spending, cooling credit, stubborn inflation, and sluggish demand are hurting corporate profits, making it difficult for Indian stocks to justify their high valuations. Abhinaba Saha writes about what could be expected from the market in the coming weeks. This month marks a big leap for connectivity in Kashmir with the launch of the first-ever train service linking Srinagar to the rest of the country. The new Vande Bharat Sleeper train, part of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Railway Project (USBRL), will travel over 800 kilometers from New Delhi to Srinagar. This line not only promises faster travel times but also aims to boost the local economy by enhancing sectors like tourism and agriculture. Plus, it offers a reliable alternative to the often-blocked Srinagar-Jammu National Highway. While there's excitement about the potential for growth and better connectivity, there are also worries about the environmental impact and the economic effects on Jammu's local businesses. Irfan Amin Malik examines how Kashmir's first rail link with the rest of India will impact its key sectors.Hindenburg Research, the American short-seller famous for shaking up the corporate world, is closing its doors. Nathan Anderson, the founder, announced the shutdown without spilling the beans on why, only mentioning that he's ending on a high note. Hindenburg shot to fame in India after it lobbed serious fraud accusations at the Adani Group in January 2023, wiping billions from their market value overnight. Though Adani later recouped most of these losses, the impact was unforgettable. Adani's CFO even threw a bit of shade on social media, hinting at outlasting their critics. This closure isn't just big news for Hindenburg; it's a turning point for the world of short-sellers, who've been facing scrutiny and regulatory challenges across the world.Reliance Industries Ltd announced on Thursday a 7.4% increase in its net profit for the December quarter, reaching Rs 18,540 crore, up from Rs 17,265 crore during the same period last year. The earnings per share also rose to Rs 13.70 from Rs 12.76. This growth comes as the company saw a strong performance in its retail business and an increase in telecom earnings. Sequentially, the profit rose from Rs 16,563 crore in the previous quarter. Revenue from operations also increased, hitting Rs 2.43 trillion compared to Rs 2.27 trillion in the October-December 2023 quarter.

Zahid Rafiq is the author of the debut story collection The World with Its Mouth Open, available from Tin House. It was the official December pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Rafiq is a writer living in Srinagar, Kashmir. He was a journalist for several years before turning to writing fiction. The World With Its Mouth Open is his first book. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Instagram  TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Modi government's plans for 6 tunnels and direct train services between Srinagar and the rest of India, among other projects, could transform connectivity in a notoriously treacherous J&K region, up to Ladakh. With the PM set to inaugurate the all-weather Z-Morh tunnel, watch episode 1239 of #CutTheClutter, where Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta talked about the many big-ticket infra projects underway and their significance. Originally published on 26 May, 2023.

Lieutenant General Devendra Pratap Pandey (Retd.) PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM is a retired general officer of the Indian Army who served as the General Officer Commanding of the Srinagar-based Chinar Corps (XV). He previously served as the first Director General of the Territorial Army of the Indian Army. You can follow Devendra at : https://twitter.com/LtGenDPPandey In this episode, Vinamre and Devendra talk about: - His experience in the Kashmir Valley during different postings - The role of media in international organizations in conflicts - How military intelligence works and the role of ADG Stratcom - How China spreads propaganda and engages in information warfare - Covert operations against India, China's reverse engineering - The negative impact of AI, Hostile social manipulation - Social media policy for army personnel Watch this episode to know more about military intelligence and the role if information warfare in real life. Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 4:00 - Reacting to his viral reels 8:25 - His experience in the Kashmir Valley 11:30 - Overground workers 16:57 - Interceptions and the role of media in the conflict economy 23:50 - How Military Intelligence works 28:10 - The role of ADG Stratcom 35:40 - China's information warfare 46:16 - How Pakistan propagates information warfare 54:00 - The negative impact of AI and deepfakes 58:49 - Narratives against the Indian Army 1:04:00 - Indian operations around the world 1:06:03 - Challenges of building India's perception globally 1:10:07 - What is hostile social manipulation? 1:17:40 - How can people become aware of this perception game around us? 1:24:28 - Social media policy for army personnel 1:30:20 - Conclusion ==================================================================== This is the official channel for Dostcast, a podcast by Vinamre Kasanaa. Connect with me LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinamre-kasanaa-b8524496/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinamrekasanaa/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/VinamreKasanaa Dostcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dostcast/ Dostcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dostcast Dostcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557567524054 ==================================================================== Contact Us For business inquiries: dostcast@egiplay.com

Alyina Zaidi at Alexander Berggruen, NY, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Berggruen, NY. Alyina Zaidi (b. 1995, New Delhi, India) holds an MA in painting from the Royal College Of Art, London and a BA from Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY; Newchild Gallery, Antwerp, BE; Indigo + Madder Gallery, London, UK; Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK; and White Cube, London, UK, among others. Zaidi is a London-based artist from New Delhi and Srinagar. This is Zaidi's first solo show with the gallery, following her inclusion in the gallery's group show Katja Farin, Maria Farrar, Esme Hodsoll, Alyina Zaidi (March 1-April 5, 2023). In Lost in the belly of a whale, Zaidi establishes stronger narrative threads with more action than her previous work. Here, nomadic white strawberries attempt to herd their goats and are at war with imperial frogs. In the top left register of Facts and hearsay—an encyclopaedia of various natural and less natural phenomena, these frogs steal the moon. Angels purchase Moons for sale and, in Dubious benediction, guard pickle jars of frogs and moons. On occasion, the unreliable nature of history emerges where portions of the composition are swallowed by dark orbs Zaidi calls “the cave of the unknown.” These nebulous scenes offer a mode of abstraction for the artist and indicate that there is more to learn about this universe. Further embracing reality-warping unknowns, Zaidi's paintings are filled with magic and mythology. As in previous work by the artist, cherry tomatoes and radishes become spirits, angels with opulent tentacled wings populate most paintings, chilis hang to ward off the evil eye, and rituals are performed around the moon for luck. New supernatural elements in this body of work include poltergeists who lurk in windows and sacred trees. In Zaidi's painting Euphemia and the assassin, she alludes to a version of the story of Saint Euphemia's martyrdom in which she was thrown into an arena with lions meant to kill her. In the Islamic tradition of indirect representation, rather than painting Euphemia as a person, Zaidi paints her as a bejeweled textile surrounded by lacy fabric. In a playful rendition of the tale, here, Euphemia is cradled in a hammock of lions' tails. Alyina Zaidi, Perfumed veils and gauzy tails, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 16 x 16 in. (40.6 x 40.6 cm.). Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo: Mark Blower Alyina Zaidi, Dubious benediction, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 in. (76.2 x 76.2 cm.), Copyright the artist. Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo: Mark Blower Alyina Zaidi, Facts and hearsay—an encyclopaedia of various natural and less natural phenomena, 2024 acrylic on canvas, quadriptych, overall: 77 x 200 in. (195.6 x 508 cm.), each: 77 x 50 in. (195.6 x 127 cm.). Copyright the artist. Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo: Dario Lasagni  

"The taste and quality of the ingredients that some street vendors use can rival that of Michelin star restaurants. And that they make it all available at this price point is just shocking. Street vendors also have no qualms about feeding the food that they make to their own families. They don't store their food or refrigerate and reuse, all ingredients are fresh every day, there are no secrets, its made out in the open in front of the customer. Those are the big differences with the large chains. After doing this book, we've realised that we are much better off eating from the street than eating packaged food or even from fancy places" - Priya Bala and Jayanth Narayanan, authors, 'Bazaar Bites; Tales and Tastes of India's Street Foods' talks to Manjula Narayan about the fantastic sweets and savouries on offer on our streets including in tier 2 cities like Indore, Nagpur, Bhopal, Puri, Srinagar and Allahabad, among others, specialities like the hing kachori of Varanasi, the karela chaat of Gwalior, the ghirmit of Hubli Dharwad, the samosas of Bata Mangala in Odisha, the litti chokhas of Patna and the dosa diversity of Karnataka, and how street food needs to be properly recognised as an integral part of India's culinary heritage.

Stefano Zecchi"Resurrezione"Mondadori Editorewww.mondadori.itDelia, fotografa di guerra, intrappolata in una profonda nebbia creativa, convince il marito, Freddy, ad accompagnarla a Srinagar, la capitale del Kashmir, una regione nel nord dell'India al confine con il Pakistan. Con loro c'è Clara, sorella di Delia, la tipica persona che Kundera chiamerebbe “vandalo”, tale è l'inerzia con cui abita la vita. Nessuno di loro se la sente di chiedersi cosa cerchi davvero in quella parte del mondo, e certamente nessuno di loro vuole affrontare da solo il cielo dell'India. Tutti e tre, in modi diversi, hanno commesso l'errore di considerare pigramente il tempo, come se il suo trascorrere sia qualcosa di ovvio. Delia, per ritrovare un senso al proprio lavoro, vorrebbe attraversare il confine con il Pakistan per fotografare le zone di guerra, ma è costretta a rimanere a Srinagar perché fatica a ottenere il visto, mentre il marito cerca di aiutarla tra i meandri della burocrazia, e Clara non trova di meglio da fare che la turista annoiata. In un incontro fortuito conoscono un ingegnere francese che per amore si è convertito all'induismo. Proprio all'indomani di quell'incontro s'innesca una diaspora imprevista, che porta i tre a vivere giornate indipendenti: Delia naviga a fatica tra le sale dei consolati, mentre Freddy trascorre i pomeriggi a casa di un affascinante studioso che lo introduce ai vangeli gnostici, alla comunità degli Esseni e a una teoria rivoluzionaria su Cristo, il cui corpo sarebbe sepolto proprio lì vicino, nel santuario di Rozabal. È Clara, però, a intraprendere un cammino ai suoi stessi occhi imprevedibile: in una delle sue peregrinazioni s'imbatte in una comunità che professa una religiosità travolgente nelle sue ritualità erotiche. Senza saperlo, tutti e tre stanno andando incontro a un destino che sembrava attenderli lì, in quel luogo del mondo e dell'anima in cui l'essenza stessa dell'essere umani si spoglia di ogni soffocante sovrastruttura, costringendo ognuno di loro ad affrontare la propria resurrezione.Stefano Zecchi, già professore ordinario di Estetica all'Università degli Studi di Milano, dopo essere diventato ordinario di Filosofia teoretica all'Università degli Studi di Padova, è stato membro del Gruppo di lavoro interministeriale per il Patrimonio Mondiale dell'unesco e presidente dell'Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. È presidente del Museo delle Scienze di Trento. Romanziere e saggista, svolge da oltre trent'anni una regolare attività di editorialista su quotidiani e settimanali. Da Mondadori ha pubblicato, tra gli altri, i saggi L'artista armato (1998), L'uomo è ciò che guarda (2005, premio Hemingway), Le promesse della bellezza (2006), Il lusso (2015), Paradiso Occidente (2016) e i romanzi Quando ci batteva forte il cuore (2010, premio Acqui Storia, e premio delle Biblioteche di Roma), Rose bianche a Fiume (2014), L'amore nel fuoco della guerra (2018, premio Niccolò Tommaseo) e Anime nascoste (2020).IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

This is the CatchUp on 3 Things by The Indian Express and I am Flora Swain.Today is the 25th of September and here are the headlines.With the second phase of polling for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly kicking off today, a group of diplomats from 16 foreign missions arrived in Srinagar to “observe” the voting. Former CM and senior National Conference leader Omar Abdullah, however, termed them as “guided tourists”. “If diplomats can be brought here, why are foreign journalists not being permitted to come here and cover elections… Diplomats are being brought here as guided tourists,” he said. Second phase of voting is underway across 26 constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir, including 15 constituencies in the Kashmir division and 11 in Jammu.The Supreme Court said today calling any part of India “Pakistan” is contrary to the country's territorial integrity as it heard a matter over the remarks made by a Karnataka High Court judge earlier this month. Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud said this while hearing the matter in which it had taken suo motu cognisance of video clips of the comments made by the Karnataka High Court judge. The bench perused the report which said the judge tendered a public apology on September 21. THe court said and I quote, “Bearing in mind the apology which has been tendered by the judge of the high court, in the course of the open court proceedings on September 21, 2024, we consider it in the interest of justice and the dignity of the institution to not pursue these proceedings further."Kerala Police today arrested Malayalam actor Edavela Babu on rape charges. The actor will be released on bail soon since he had secured anticipatory bail from a district court in Ernakulam earlier this month. The rape allegations against Babu came earlier this year against the backdrop of the release of the Hema Committee report on the working conditions of women in the Malayalam movie industry. Until he resigned in June, Babu had served as the general secretary of Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA) for several years.Hours after she asserted that her statement on the repealed farm laws were her personal views, Himachal Pradesh MP and BJP leader Kangana Ranaut today withdrew her statement, adding that she stands with the party. Ranaut had stirred yet another row with her remarks urging farmers to ask the Prime Minister to reinstate the three repealed farm laws of 2020. In a video posted on X, she said and I quote, “Many people are upset and disappointed by my remarks. When the three farmers laws were proposed, a lot of us supported it. But with a lot of sensitivity and sympathy, our PM repealed these laws. It's the responsibility of all the party workers to treat his words with dignity. I also have to keep in mind that I am no longer just an actor but also a BJP member. My opinions can't be personal, they have to reflect the party's stand."Hezbollah hurled dozens of projectiles into Israel early Wednesday, including a missile aimed at Tel Aviv that was the militant group's deepest strike yet and marked a further escalation after Israeli strikes on Lebanon killed hundreds of people.The Israeli military said it intercepted the surface-to-surface missile, which set off air-raid sirens in Tel Aviv and across central Israel. There were no reports of casualties or damage.This was the CatchUp on 3 Things by The Indian Express.

In the final episode of our India trilogy, we're journeying to Kashmir and through the Indian Himalayas.Wild Frontiers founder Jonny Bealby explores Kashmir's history, wars, complexities, and his relationship with this region. Wild Frontiers started running tours to Kashmir in 2004 and has been successfully taking travellers to explore this region ever since.Jonny is joined by Altaf Chapri, a hotelier in Srinagar and a friend of Wild Frontiers, and they discuss security in the valley and why it is advised against visiting (despite tourists being safe for many years). He runs Qayaam Gah and the Sukoon Houseboat in Srinagar and speaks about his love of Kashmir and the serenity and spiritual experience of staying on houseboats.They also discuss Wild Frontiers' High Road to Kashmir group tour itinerary and its unmissable highlights, including Ladakh, Leh and Srinagar. Wild Frontiers India specialist Shalmali Rao Paterson speaks about Leh's unique culture and landscapes, Spiti Valley, Kumar, Darjeeling and the state of Sikkim's appeal, and walking and staying in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas.Kashmir & The Himalayas Tours & Holidays Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As part of our ongoing collaboration with the Central Square Foundation - we're excited to bring to you the second part of this series where we will speak to experts in the field of EdTech to understand, how access to educational technology can transform overall learning in the classroom and at-home. In order to ensure learning outcomes for all children are met CSF has been working towards system-led reforms to ensure quality access to school education to children across India.The episode will be out this Saturday, the 21st September. The conversation will be available on our website indianexpress.com and everywhere you get your podcasts. Make sure you listen. To listen to the first episode, check out the link provided in the description.Now, on with the show.This is the Catchup on 3 Things by The Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.Today is the 19th of September and here are the headlines.Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing an election rally in Srinagar reiterated his government's promise to restore Jammu and Kashmir's statehood, assuring the people that the BJP would fulfil this commitment. He emphasized BJP's commitment to making Jammu and Kashmir free from terror. “The bumper voting in the first phase of Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections has rejected the parties that sympathise with stone pelting and terrorism.” He assured the crowd of his government's focus on generating local employment, stating, “It's my pledge that the new generation will not suffer under the rule of three families.”As junior doctors' protests continue, decorators on Wednesday night were seen removing tents, bamboo sticks, and pedestal fans from the protest site in front of Swasthya Bhavan. Protestors now claim that “external pressure” is causing decorators, who had installed fans for them, to now take them down. “It could be an effort to demoralise us,” said a junior doctor, “but we would like to clearly say that for a protest, we don't need all this. We can protest from anywhere and in any possible way.” Junior doctors announced their decision to continue their protest and cease work after a six-hour meeting with government officials Wednesday night.Days after the family of a 26-year-old employee alleged that “work pressure” at her firm led to her death, Union Minister of State Shobha Karandlaje Thursday said that the Labour Ministry has taken up the complaint and is investigating the claims. Anna Sebastian Perayil was a CA who worked with S R Batliboi, a member firm of Ernst and Young (EY) Global, at Pune's Yerawada. She died on July 20 while undergoing treatment at a city hospital, where she was admitted after she felt uneasy and complained of exhaustion.Choreographer Shaik Jani Basha, popularly known as Jani Master in the Telugu film industry, was arrested from Goa days after he was accused of sexual assault by a junior choreographer who worked with him, officers said Thursday. An FIR was registered against him under rape charges on September 16 in Hyderabad. A day later, sections of the POCSO Act were added to the case on the basis of claims that the complainant was a minor when he allegedly sexually assaulted her for the first time.Continuing with the restrictions on international work permits, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday announced a new set of restrictions for international students. He wrote on X and I quote, “We're granting 35% fewer international student permits this year. And next year, that number's going down by another 10%. Immigration is an advantage for our economy — but when bad actors abuse the system and take advantage of students, we crack down. We're reducing the number of low-wage, temporary foreign workers and shortening the duration of their work terms. We adjusted the program after the pandemic, but the labour market has changed. We need businesses to invest in Canadian workers.This was the Catch Up on 3 Things by The Indian Express.Link to episode 1 of our five part series with CSF:https://indianexpress.com/audio/3-things/the-rss-bjp-rift-rise-in-indian-asylum-seekers-and-a-bid-to-muzzle-press/9550762/ 

Jammu and Kashmir is set to hold its first assembly elections since the abrogation of Article 370. The polls will take place in three phases, on September 18, 25th and October 1. The counting of votes will happen on October 8. Given that these are the first assembly elections in ten years, what is the mood on the ground? What are the poll promises being made by the contending parties, and how do they stack up against each other in different parts of the Union Territory? Guest: Peerzada Ashiq, The Hindu's Srinagar correspondent. Host: G. Sampath, Social Affairs Editor, The Hindu. Edited by Sharmada Venkatasubramanian.

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Hey everyone! Welcome to this week's episode of the True Fiction Project. Today I'm honored to talk with Sathya Saran and learn her story about rising in the editorial world in India that was typically dominated by men. Sathya shares her experience in journalism and explains how she turned around and brought success to the magazine's Femina India and Me Magazine for the DNA, Daily News and Analysis. Tune in to learn how she flew high, even when her wings were clipped. IN THIS EPISODE: [2:16] Sathya shares how she got started with her career path.  [8:10] What led to hostility that Sathya experienced in journalism?  [9:07] Who is Dr. Mulk Raj Anand and what did meeting with him lead to?  [10:34] What was so important about the magazine Femina?  [11:55] Sathya shares how she turned Femina magazine around.  [18:20] What happened after Sathya left Femina?  [21:43] Sathya shares her journey of writing her first book. [23:13] What was the Me Magazine for the DNA, Daily News and Analysis?  [28:52] Sathya shares what led her to focus full time on her books.  [30:50] Sathya discusses her journey of sharing with others how to write.   KEY TAKEAWAYS: If you love what you do, and do it with confidence and do it with integrity, it will reward you in some way.  Take a chance on yourself! Sathya went outside the box, challenged the norm, and created wild success.  Fly high, even if your wings are clipped! Subscribe to Reenita's Storytelling Den on Substack for free or become a paid subscriber to watch the video version of this episode and be eligible to receive other extras such as exclusive content from podcast guests, short stories, exclusive fiction and more! https://substack.com/@reenitahora   Fiction Credits: Read by Sathya Saran  GUEST RESOURCES: Sathya Saran's Twitter  Sathya Saran's Instagram  Sathya Saran's LinkedIn  HOST RESOURCES Website LinkedIn  Tiktok  Instagram  Facebook  Twitter (X)  Substack  Threads  LinkTree  BIO: Best known for her long association with Femina, which she edited for 12 years, Sathya Saran is currently Consulting Editor with Penguin Random House India. Sathya Saran is also the author of a diverse variety of books. The Dark Side reflects her love of the short story, while the critically acclaimed biographies, Ten Years with Guru Dutt Abrar Alvi's Journey; Sun Mere Bandhu Re The Musical World of SD Burman and Baat Niklegi toh Phir The Life and Music of Jagjit Singh bear testimony to her love of cinema and music. Sathya has also written the hugely appreciated biography of Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia. Sathya teaches fashion journalism at NIFT Mumbai, Kangra and Srinagar. She has been a stage actor with Veenapani Chawla. Passionate about writing, she conceptualised and curates the first of its kind Writers Conclave titled The Spaces between Words the unfestival sponsored by JSW at Kaladham near Hampi. Sathya has written a tv serial titled Kashmakash on marital problems. Her column in Femina and Me magazine is now continuing to gain new fans as a guest column in Dainik Jagran. She also writes a column for the New Indian Express. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/true-fiction-project/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Welcome to Top of the Morning by Mint, your weekday newscast that brings you five major stories from the world of business. It's Monday, August 13, 2024. My name is Nelson John. Let's get started:Indian benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty 50 ended Monday's session flat amid mixed global cues.    Retail investors like us, once mere spectators in the stock market, are now major players. Just last July, a staggering 4.5 million new demat accounts popped up, a big jump from the 3.5 million monthly average of the past year. To put it in perspective, back in 2019, we only saw about 400 thousand new accounts monthly. Now, 43% of companies listed on the NSE have over 50,000 retail shareholders, a significant increase from just 441 companies in March 2020. Even more impressive, 54 firms now have over a million retail shareholders—almost five times more than four years ago. So where is this inflow from retail investors headed? Are they betting big on blue-chip giants, or taking risks on smaller companies? Niti Kiran from Mint's data team takes a look.  Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation's top boss, Akihiro Fukutome, is flying to India this week, eyeing a big slice of Yes Bank. Three people aware of the development told Mint's banking editor Gopika Gopakumar, that Fukutome is thinking about snapping up a whopping 51% stake, pegging the deal at 5 billion dollars. Fukutome's trip includes meetings with top officials from the Reserve Bank of India and the State Bank of India, which currently holds a 23.99 per cent stake in Yes Bank. The discussions are critical, as SMBC has started the due diligence process, leveraging the financial expertise of JPMorgan and legal guidance from J Sagar Associates. But why Yes Bank? Well, SMBC sees a lot of promise in the private lender and is keen to make a major play in India's banking scene. Airfares for the upcoming Independence Day weekend have surged by as much as 50% due to a combination of holiday timing and slow fleet expansion. Independence Day and the Parsi New Year on August 15, followed by Rakshabandhan on Monday, have created a perfect storm for a long, five-day weekend, encouraging many to take extended breaks. This has led to a spike in bookings, particularly for popular destinations like Bengaluru, Delhi, Srinagar, and Leh. Mint's Anu Sharma reports that the rise in airfares is partly due to the slow pace at which new aircraft are being added to India's fleets, even as the demand for travel significantly outpaces supply. Industry insiders point to a shortage of spare parts and delayed aircraft deliveries as key factors keeping capacity from meeting the surging demand.The Hindi film industry, which traditionally relied heavily on the star power of individual male leads, is shifting gears. As solo star vehicles falter at the box office, producers are increasingly turning to ensemble casts, betting on the combined drawing power of multiple big names to lure larger audiences and ensure robust ticket sales. Take, for instance, Ranveer Singh's upcoming untitled movie that stars not just him but also Sanjay Dutt, Akshaye Khanna, and R. Madhavan. Similarly, the latest installment of the Housefull series boasts a lineup that includes Akshay Kumar, Riteish Deshmukh, and Abhishek Bachchan. At the same time, Kumar's other project, Welcome 3, packs an even more star-studded cast. Mint's media correspondent Lata Jha spoke to trade experts who suggest that films with ensemble casts draw from the fan bases of each star, potentially ensuring grand openings.For more than a year, the Indian equity market has witnessed an unusual divergence—Bank Nifty has consistently underperformed compared to the benchmark Nifty. Typically, these two indices move closely together, so this gap suggests something is off balance. The prime suspect for this underperformance? HDFC Bank, which holds significant weight in the Bank Nifty. But it's not just about one bank; the entire banking sector in India is facing several challenges, as evident from recent financial results. Mint's Abhishek Mukherjee takes a deep dive into the banking sector's struggles with systemic challenges, evident in its first quarter results.  We'd love to hear your feedback on this podcast. Let us know by writing to us at feedback@livemint.com. You may send us feedback, tips or anything that you feel we should be covering from your vantage point in the world of business and finance. Show notes:Analysis: Retail investors remain undaunted, but what are they betting on?This Japanese lender's chief is visiting India to discuss buying Yes Bank stakeTravelling by air this weekend? Prepare to shell out moreEnsemble cast back in vogue as filmmakers spread bets across starsWar for deposits: Banks' biggest headache now coming for investors?

"For people who grew up in the 1990s in Srinagar, the undercurrent of tension has always been our lived reality. This book is about how everyday normal lives also exist in Kashmir and how people navigate around the violence. It is about finding the tender moments in a city that is not 'normal'. The kind of pain that different people have felt in Kashmir has been different but the intensity of it is not something that you want pitched each against the other. Some people say Pandits had it worse because they had to leave. Others say Muslims had it worse because they had to stay and witness what happened over the last 30 years. But it's not a competition of who had it worse. It is horrible what happened to both communities. We have to move forward" - Sadaf Wani, author, 'City As Memory; A Short Biography of Srinagar' talks to Manjula Narayan on the Books & Authors podcast about life in a city that's seen much conflict, about marginalised sections of the populace, caste and class discrimination, the self surveillance of Kashmiri women, PTSD, the ongoing drug epidemic, the slow decline of the Kashmiri language, and collective and individual trauma.

Top news of the day: Delhi court grants Kejriwal bail, declines ED's plea for 48-hr hold, PM Modi lead the nation's celebration of the International Day of Yoga by participating in an event at the Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC) in Srinagar, These states to receive rainfall as monsoon advances after 9-day lull: IMD updates, Rohit Sharma's cheap dismissal against Afghanistan brought back the old debate about his struggles against left-armers on Thursday. US supports direct discussions between India, Pakistan: State Dept Spokesperson Matthew Miller

This is the Catch Up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.It's the 20th of June and here are today's headlines.As the controversy around the NEET-UG 2024 heightens, the Supreme Court refused to put a stay in the counselling process ,while hearing fresh petitions seeking cancellation of the exam. The apex court sought responses from the Centre, the National Testing Agency and others on petitions seeking the cancellation of NEET-UG 2024, and a court-monitored probe into the alleged irregularities in the medical entrance exam. Meanwhile, the Congress has decided to hold a nationwide protest on June 21 (Friday) demanding justice for the NEET candidates.Patna High Court set aside the Bihar government's notifications to raise reservations in government jobs and educational institutions from 50 per cent to 65 per cent today. On 7th of November last year, the Nitish Kumar-led Mahagathbandhan government raised the Bihar quota and reservation in the state effectively became 75 per cent when the 10 per cent quota for economically weaker sections (EWS) is taken into consideration. The bench said that it is “infringing upon right to equality”.The death toll in the hooch tragedy in Tamil Naidu increased to 34 today, with around 100 others hospitalised — five of them in critical condition. Most of the victims consumed the spurious liquor at Karunapuram in Kallakurichi on Tuesday night. As the spurious liquor started to take effect yesterday, they were admitted to hospitals. Chief Minister M K Stalin expressed his shock and sorrow over the incident, and emphasised the urgency of holding those responsible to account.The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay has levied a fine of Rs 1.2 lakh — almost equal to a semester's fee — on a student who participated in a play titled “Raahovan” during the institute's Performing Arts Festival held in March this year. The play, loosely based on the Ramayana, sparked protests from a section of students who alleged it was disrespectful to Hinduism and derogatory towards Ram and Sita. At least seven other students were penalised, but the nature of disciplinary action and quantum of fine, could not be ascertained.Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate and lay foundation stones of multiple development projects in Jammu and Kashmir today. PM Modi will be on a two-day tour in the Union Territory and he will lead the 10th International Day of Yoga (IDY) celebrations in Srinagar tomorrow. Assembly elections are due in Jammu and Kashmir this year and PM Modi's first visit after forming his third government assumes significance in this backdrop.This was the Catch-Up on the 3 Things by The Indian Express.

AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports vote counting gets underway in Srinagar, Kolkata and Chennai in the Indian election marathon. ((Begins with sound))

This is the Catch Up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.It's the 17th of May and here are the top stories of the week.The voter turnout in the 96 constituencies across 9 states and a Union territory that went to polls in the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections on Monday reached 67.71% as of 10 am on Tuesday. The Election Commission had said the provisional turnout at 11.45 pm on Monday was 67.25%, however, the final turnout would be announced today. Significantly, the turnout in Srinagar, which was the one seat in Jammu and Kashmir that went to polls on Monday, recorded a turnout of 37.98%, which was the highest since 1996.Bhavesh Bhinde, owner of a hoarding in Ghatkopar that collapsed amid rains was arrested on Thursday by the crime branch from Rajasthan's Udaipur. The director of Ego Media Private Limited, which had the contract for the hoarding on a 10-year lease, was absconding since the incident took place. The death toll from the giant hoarding collapse in Ghatkopar area of Mumbai touched 16, after the bodies of the two more victims were retrieved. The search and rescue operations at the site have been called off. The illegal 100-foot-tall hoarding collapsed Monday due to thunderstorms and gusty winds.Invalidating his arrest in a terror case, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the release of Newsclick founder-editor Prabir Purkayastha. The reason the court gave:  Delhi Police failed to inform Purkayastha the grounds of his arrest before taking him into custody. The ruling emphasised that proper procedure and due process are the guardrails against arbitrary action, even in stringent terror cases. The apex court on Thursday said it had not carved out an exception for Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal while granting him interim bail till June 1 to campaign for the Lok Sabha elections and added that “critical analysis or even criticism of the judgment” was “welcome”.On Monday, Delhi police said that AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal called the police control room lleging that she had been assaulted by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar at Kejriwal's residence. While the police had said that Maliwal went to the Civil Lines police station, she had not filed an official complaint. While AAP MP Sanjay Singh said that strict action would be taken against Kumar, National Commission for Women (NCW) summoned him for a hearing in the matter.South Africa asked the top UN court on Thursday to order a halt to the Rafah offensive as part of its case in The Hague accusing Israel of genocide in the Gaza Strip, saying the Palestinian people faced "ongoing annihilation". The hearings at the International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, come after South Africa last week asked for additional emergency measures to protect Rafah, a southern Gaza city where more than a million Palestinians have been sheltering.This was the Catch-Up on the 3 Things by The Indian Express.

This is the Catch Up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.It's the 16th of April and here are today's headlines.Stating that the court will not let them “off the hook” at this stage, the Supreme Court today gave one week's time to Yoga guru Ramdev and Patanjali Ayurved Managing Director Acharya Balkrishna to tender a public apology in a case against the company for publishing “misleading adverstisements”, claiming cure for some diseases and criticising the allopathy branch of medicines. The bench said, quote, "You are doing good work but you can't degrade allopathy." Unquote.At least six people, including two minors, have drowned while two others are under treatment after a boat they were taking to cross the river Jhelum this morning capsized. The children were on their way to school. Water levels in the Jhelum have risen post incessant rains over the last three days. While it is unclear how many children are still missing, two are admitted at Srinagar's SMHS hospital.The two suspects, arrested from Gujarat in connection with the shooting outside actor Salman Khan's Bandra residence on Sunday, have been remanded to police custody till 25th of April. Identified as Vicky Gupta and Sagar Pal, the two men were arrested from Bhuj in Gujarat where they had escaped after the incident. They belong to Champaran in Bihar.Cricketer Hardik Pandya's comeback to the Indian team for the T20 world cup might well depend on how well and how often he bowls in the remainder of the IPL. In a meeting between India head coach Rahul Dravid, chairman of the selection committee Ajit Agarkar and captain Rohit Sharma at the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai last week, it's understood that a decision was taken that Hardik has to bowl regularly if he wants to make a comeback. The Indian Express understands that the major part of the discussion in the two-hour meeting was about the seam bowling all-rounder which the team is looking for in the USA and West Indies, which will host the world cup.US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has postponed his visit to India this week in view of the evolving situation in West Asia following escalating hostilities between Israel and Iran. The senior Biden administration official was scheduled to hold wide-ranging talks with his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval on the progress in implementation of the US-India Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies besides other issues. It was the second time this year that Sullivan has postponed his trip to India.This was the Catch-Up on the 3 Things by The Indian Express.

This week joining Kelly-Anne Taylor, in the studio, is the British actress, presenter and author, Joanna Lumley. Born in India, in Kashmir, Srinagar – she was brought up in the Far East, coming to the UK, aged 8, to attend boarding school. She went on to work as a model and actress, living in London in the Swinging Sixties – and made her name starring as Purdy in The New Avengers. She boasts a successful career – spanning over 6 decades – she had audiences in hysterics as Patsy in hit sit-com Absolutely Fabulous, has presented wonderful travel programmes – and, of course, captured the nation in Jan Etherington's radio show, Conversations From A Long Marriage – in which she stars alongside Roger Allum. In this episode, she talks about why she doesn't have a mobile phone and how difficult she found it to shed the ‘pretty girl' stereotype when she moved from modelling to acting. Plus, she talks about raising a child as a single mother, how playing Purdy in The New Avengers changed things financially for her and why she wishes sex scenes would be cut from TV and film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Bienvenidos a otro Podcast sobre "NOVELAS DE 40K" en TERRAESCRIBIENTE. Continuamos con la nueva saga de la Era Indomitus: "AMANECER DE FUEGO" Libro 4: “ EL TRONO DE LUZ” Parte 2. Capítulo 22 al 42 y Notas de Cruzada. Roboute Guilliman ha roto el avance orco que amenazaba a Fenris, pero un antiguo enemigo ha regresado para amenazar el corazón mismo de la humanidad: el Segmentum Solar. Guy Haley continúa la fascinante historia de la Cruzada Indomitus mientras recorre la galaxia, aún recuperándose de la apertura de la Gran Fisura. LA HISTORIA La Cruzada Indomitus continúa su guerra a través de las estrellas. El primarca Roboute Guilliman finalmente ha superado la amenaza orka que asola los sectores cercanos a Fenris y se prepara para seguir adelante con su intento de estabilizar el Imperium Sanctus, pero viejos y acérrimos enemigos se interponen en su camino. Kor Phaeron, el Cardenal Oscuro, amenaza el núcleo previamente estable del Segmentum Solar. Las oleadas de rebelión instigadas por sus sacerdotes infiltrados sugieren una invasión inminente a gran escala por parte de la Legión de los Portadores de la Palabra. Peor aún, los guerreros del Cardenal Oscuro están apuntando a los Barcos Negros, amenazando con matar de hambre a Terra de los pyskers que el Emperador necesita para sobrevivir. A través de esta turbulenta zona de guerra, el Inquisidor Rostov continúa su búsqueda de la Mano de Abaddon. Sin embargo, cuando se rastrean visiones extrañas y milagrosas hasta el relevo astropático en Srinagar, su búsqueda se desvía, ya que las visiones predicen esperanza para el Imperio, una esperanza que los fanáticos adoradores del Caos harán cualquier cosa para apagar... Escrito por Guy Haley. Por favor sigue las redes y grupos: Canal de Whatsapp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaCcO2s1NCrQqLpfFR3u Twitter: https://twitter.com/TerraEscriba Telegram: https://t.me/+62_TRJVg-3cxNDZh Instagram: www.instagram.com/terraescribiente/ Tik tok: www.tiktok.com/@terraescribiente Youtube: www.youtube.com/@Terraescribiente También subscríbete a TERRAESCRIBIENTE en IVOOX, ITUNES Y SPOTIFY! Dale me gusta a cada Podcast y coméntalos! Ayuda mucho! Gracias! Escucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de TERRAESCRIBIENTE. Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/747547

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Bienvenidos a otro Podcast sobre "NOVELAS DE 40K" en TERRAESCRIBIENTE. Continuamos con la nueva saga de la Era Indomitus: "AMANECER DE FUEGO" Libro 4: “ EL TRONO DE LUZ” Parte 1. Capítulo 1 al 21. Roboute Guilliman ha roto el avance orco que amenazaba a Fenris, pero un antiguo enemigo ha regresado para amenazar el corazón mismo de la humanidad: el Segmentum Solar. Guy Haley continúa la fascinante historia de la Cruzada Indomitus mientras recorre la galaxia, aún recuperándose de la apertura de la Gran Fisura. LA HISTORIA La Cruzada Indomitus continúa su guerra a través de las estrellas. El primarca Roboute Guilliman finalmente ha superado la amenaza orka que asola los sectores cercanos a Fenris y se prepara para seguir adelante con su intento de estabilizar el Imperium Sanctus, pero viejos y acérrimos enemigos se interponen en su camino. Kor Phaeron, el Cardenal Oscuro, amenaza el núcleo previamente estable del Segmentum Solar. Las oleadas de rebelión instigadas por sus sacerdotes infiltrados sugieren una invasión inminente a gran escala por parte de la Legión de los Portadores de la Palabra. Peor aún, los guerreros del Cardenal Oscuro están apuntando a los Barcos Negros, amenazando con matar de hambre a Terra de los pyskers que el Emperador necesita para sobrevivir. A través de esta turbulenta zona de guerra, el Inquisidor Rostov continúa su búsqueda de la Mano de Abaddon. Sin embargo, cuando se rastrean visiones extrañas y milagrosas hasta el relevo astropático en Srinagar, su búsqueda se desvía, ya que las visiones predicen esperanza para el Imperio, una esperanza que los fanáticos adoradores del Caos harán cualquier cosa para apagar... Escrito por Guy Haley. Por favor sigue las redes y grupos: Canal de Whatsapp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaCcO2s1NCrQqLpfFR3u Twitter: https://twitter.com/TerraEscriba Telegram: https://t.me/+62_TRJVg-3cxNDZh Instagram: www.instagram.com/terraescribiente/ Tik tok: www.tiktok.com/@terraescribiente Youtube: www.youtube.com/@Terraescribiente También subscríbete a TERRAESCRIBIENTE en IVOOX, ITUNES Y SPOTIFY! Dale me gusta a cada Podcast y coméntalos! Ayuda mucho! Gracias! Escucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de TERRAESCRIBIENTE. Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/747547

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GIVEAWAY ALERT!  Stand a chance to win Nomads of India merchandise - follow our stories on Instagram for more details! This week, The Musafir Stories speaks with Vatsal Nandu, a traveller and founder of travel community Nomads of India as he takes us to the breathtaking Zanskar and Suru Valley! Today's destination: Zanskar and Suru Valley, Ladakh! Nearest Airport: Srinagar International airport (SXR) Nearest Railway Station: Jammu Railway Station (JAT) Prerequisites:  NA Packing: Good walking shoes, camping gear if needed, AMS medication, warm clothes Time of the year: May-Oct Length of the itinerary: 12 days Itinerary Highlights:  Vatsal shares his experience travelling and hitchhiking across the Zanskar and Suru valley. The journey starts off at Kargil and Vatsal boards a bus to Sanku. Here he explores Kartse Khar ruins and the Maitreya Buddha Statue. He also makes a trip to Parkachik and Panikhar to get a view of the Nun Kun peaks. This covers the Suru valley leg of the journey. Other options include Rangdum monastery, Drang Drung glacier  Next stop is Padum, which is the administrative capital of Zanskar. From here, Vatsal makes trips to Purney and treks to Phugtal monastery, Gonbo Rongjon, Stongdae Monastery, Karsha Monastery, Zangla palace and Shilla waterfall and Sani lake and monastery. This covers the Zanskar leg of the itinerary.  Vatsal also talks about the hospitality of the locals, some options for food and boarding as well as challenges and adventures of travelling solo.  Links: Link to NOI's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nomadsofindia/ Link to NOI's facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/nomadsofindia Link to the website: https://nomadsofindia.com/ Link to the blog post: https://nomadsofindia.com/travel-guides/zanskar-valley-ultimate-travel-guide/ Follow the Musafir stories on: Twitter : https://twitter.com/musafirstories?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themusafirstories/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/musafirstoriespodcast/?hl=en website: www.themusafirstories.com email: themusafirstories@gmail.com Do follow IVM Podcasts on social media. We are @‌IVMPodcasts on Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram. Follow the show across platforms: Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, JioSaavn, Gaana, Amazon Music Do share the word with your folks!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hinan Manzoor, co-founder of Srinagar-based football club Downtown Heroes, talks about the larger aim of the club and the challenges of starting a football team in Kashmir during a pandemic.

Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati is joined by special guest scholar George Barselaar, a disciple and attendant of the great master of Kashmiri Shaivism His Holiness Swami Lakshmanjoo, live from Swamiji's ashram in Srinagar, Kashmir. We are continuing the discussion we started last week on verse 2.10: विमर्श इति तां प्राहुः शैवशास्त्रविशारदाः | अविद्यामितरे प्राहुर्वेदतत्त्वार्थचिन्तकाः || १० || 10. vimarśa iti tāṃ prāhuḥ śaiva-śāstra-viśāradāḥ | avidyāmitare prāhur-veda-tattvārtha-cintakāḥ || 10 || "Those versed in Shaiva scriptures (Shaivites) declare Her to be vimarśa (reflective awareness), while those who contemplate the doctrines of the Vedas (Vedantins) declare Her to be powerful avidya (ignorance).”    

Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati is joined by special guest scholar George Barselaar, a disciple and attendant of the great master of Kashmiri Shaivism His Holiness Swami Lakshmanjoo, live from Swamiji's ashram in Srinagar, Kashmir. We are continuing the discussion we started last week on verse 2.10: विमर्श इति तां प्राहुः शैवशास्त्रविशारदाः | अविद्यामितरे प्राहुर्वेदतत्त्वार्थचिन्तकाः || १० || 10. vimarśa iti tāṃ prāhuḥ śaiva-śāstra-viśāradāḥ | avidyāmitare prāhur-veda-tattvārtha-cintakāḥ || 10 || "Those versed in Shaiva scriptures (Shaivites) declare Her to be vimarśa (reflective awareness), while those who contemplate the doctrines of the Vedas (Vedantins) declare Her to be powerful avidya (ignorance).”    

Faaiz dijoo, born and brought up in downtown Srinagar, J&K is a prominent Social Activist and the Founder and Chairman for Sunrise in Kashmir, a leading Non Profit Organisation based in the Union Territory of J&K. Faaiz has been a front runner in several Social Campaigns like Drug De-addiction, Education, Skill Development, Sports Promotion, Youth Engagement and Uplifting of children from Remote areas. He has been working closely with several domestic, national and international organisations and has earned a name and fame in all these years. Faaiz finished nhis studies in Nee Delhi and Kickstarted his career in the Capital. With a vast and rich experience in the Corporate World, he has also gained experience in Public Relations. Currently emphasizing on Development of Motorsports in J&K he has formed a Motorsports Body under the umbrella of FMSCI and has already carved a niche by hosting a national event by the name of JK AUTOX and is planning to host Phase II of the same event. Faaiz can be reached at fdspeaks@gmail.com You can also connect with him on his Instagram @faaizdijoo_ Listen to his inspirational story exclusively on #MashqTalksPodcast. We encourage you to share your views and feedback with us. You can write to themashq@gmail.com or reach out to @RjUmarNisar on the Meta universe and Twitter. || Donate to Mashq Talks at https://rzp.io/l/mashqtalkspodcast ||

I interviewed Khurram Parvez in Srinagar, Kashmir in February 2011. When I returned to India that September to follow up on reporting on the mass graves in Kashmir, I was denied entry by the Indian government. I've been banned from India ever since. Sadly, this interview is still relevant. Since August 2019 the Hindu nationalist regime ruling India has imposed even harsher conditions on Kashmiris and eliminated what little autonomy they had. This story needs to be told. But the G20 won't hear it. Its tourism officials are visiting Kashmir in late May in what will be an orchestrated photo-op extolling the valley's natural beauties and comparing Kashmir to paradise. Kashmir is off the media radar screen. India has carefully controlled the narrative. Interview by David Barsamian.

L'Inde a organisé la semaine dernière une réunion spéciale de trois jours du G20, le groupe des pays les plus riches du monde présidé cette année par New Delhi. Spéciale, car elle se tenait au Cachemire indien, une région à majorité musulmane en proie à une insurrection séparatiste depuis plus de 30 ans, et que le gouvernement nationaliste hindou contrôle d'une main de fer depuis qu'il a brutalement retiré son statut d'autonomie en 2019. Cette réunion du G20 sur le tourisme était donc censée montrer que la région a retrouvé une vie normale, mais derrière la façade, la répression demeure sévère De notre envoyé spécial dans la région,Sur les grandes artères qui mènent au centre de conférences, à Srinagar, des centaines de militaires armés de fusil d'assaut sont cachés derrière des boucliers décorés de fleurs et de paysages montagnards. Pendant ces trois jours de réunion du G20, tout est fait pour donner l'impression, à la cinquantaine de diplomates présents, que le Cachemire a retrouvé paix et normalité. « Avant, quand un tel événement était organisé, un appel au boycott était envoyé d'Islamabad et tous les magasins du centre-ville fermaient », rappelle Jitendra Singh, ministre fédéral des Sciences et de la technologie. « Cela n'arrive plus maintenant, ce qui démontre le niveau de transformation de la région. Le Jammu-et-Cachemire a tourné la page, car sa population veut participer à la marche vers le développement, guidée par le Premier ministre Narendra Modi. »« La voix des Cachemiriens est étouffée »Mais en face du centre de conférences, les bateliers touristiques comme Mohammad Yaqoob dénoncent cette mise en scène du G20. Et demandent surtout de pouvoir élire un Parlement régional, comme les autres États indiens. Ce qui n'a pas été possible depuis quatre ans au Cachemire. « Avant 2019, quand nous avions un gouvernement élu, il devait nous rendre des comptes », explique-t-il. « Si nous avions des problèmes avec les touristes, les élus nous répondaient. Maintenant, la voix des Cachemiriens est étouffée, et si nous nous plaignons, la police vient nous arrêter le soir-même. »   Sentiment d'aliénationDes élections locales ont été organisées en 2020, pour élire des conseillers de districts, et l'administration estime qu'il faut encore attendre afin de s'assurer que cette démocratie locale s'installe. En attendant, le Cachemire est dirigé par un lieutenant gouverneur nommé par New Delhi, un hindou qui parle hindi, dans une région musulmane où on parle ourdou.Ce décalage fait naître un profond sentiment d'aliénation, comme l'exprime Arif Akhoon un secrétaire de société de 33 ans de Srinagar. « Si un gouvernement veut offrir un développement durable à une région, il doit y apporter la paix, et pour cela, il doit parler la langue de ses administrés, dans tous les sens du terme. Il doit donc se mettre à leur niveau pour établir cette communication. Or ceci n'arrive pas aujourd'hui. »La démocratie au Cachemire est encore plus affaiblie par la répression sévère qui touche les voix critiques, et particulièrement les journalistes : quatre journalistes cachemiriens sont en prison aujourd'hui pour des activités liées à leur travail.

Southasiasphere is our roundup of news events and analysis of regional affairs, now out every two weeks. If you are a member, you will automatically receive links to new episodes in your inbox. If you are not yet a member, you can still get episode links for free by signing up here. In this episode, we talk about the political implications of continued violence in Manipur, including growing calls from the Kuki community for a separate state, and explore the mounting economic crisis in Bangladesh. For “Around Southasia in 5 minutes” we talk about the controversial G20 meeting on tourism hosted by the Indian government in Srinagar, the investigations into a controversial pastor in Sri Lanka and the increasing use of the country's ICCPR Act to quash dissent, a new political party in the Maldives, a newly released report on the Adani Group by a Supreme Court-appointed investigative committee in India, the growing crackdown on PTI leaders and journalists in Pakistan and a new report on the terrible conditions facing migrant workers from Nepal. For “Bookmarked” we discuss the short film, “The tea is cold”, following the story of a researcher traveling to the North of Sri Lanka and the stories he uncovers. Episode notes: Violence in Manipur, Imran Khan's arrest, the Karnataka elections and more: https://www.himalmag.com/violence-in-manipur-imran-khans-arrest-adani-myanmar-karnataka-election/ Rebound or relapse: debt restructuring in a time of crisis: https://www.himalmag.com/debt-restructuring-imf-economic-crisis-southasia/ How a human rights law became a tool of repression in Sri Lanka: https://www.himalmag.com/iccpr-human-rights-law-repression-blasphemy-sri-anka/ The Maldives' ruling party is fighting itself and the opposition in the race for president: https://www.himalmag.com/maldives-presidential-election-ibrahim-solih-mohamed-nasheed-abdulla-yameen-mdp-ppm/ The hidden cost: https://www.himalmag.com/the-hidden-cost-migrant-worker-rights-world-cup-2022/ The tea is cold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXLP_u5tccE This episode is now available on Soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/mTtni Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6PgI8X7gYNJfiqwroMd1w5?si=QtWrzftJRY2UgkYljhdbJw Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-political-fallout-of-violence-in-manipur/id1464880116?i=1000615138637

Située à la frontière chinoise, dans l'État de l'Uttarakhand, la ville indienne de Joshimath voit son sol s'affaisser et ses maisons s'effondrer. Depuis quelques mois, tout s'est accéléré et plus de 2 000 personnes ont dû fuir leurs maisons. Les habitants accusent le gouvernement d'avoir fragilisé la montagne en multipliant les projets d'infrastructures. De notre envoyé spécial à Joshimath,À 2 000 mètres d'altitude, la ville de Joshimath fait face à des pics de roches noires enneigés, perdus dans les nuages de l'Himalaya. Un décor féerique qui contraste avec l'angoisse qui règne sur la ville. Une centaine de manifestants sont rassemblés devant la mairie. Parmi eux, Atul Sati, militant environnemental, qui est devenu une figure du mouvement Save Joshimath. « Ça a commencé en novembre 2021. Des fissures sont apparues dans quelques maisons. Et puis ça s'est répandu dans tout Joshimath. Des glissements de terrain, des routes qui s'enfoncent dans le sol. Au fil des mois, les fissures ont empiré, au moins 500 maisons se sont effondrées. Alors nous sommes descendus par milliers dans la rue pour demander au gouvernement d'agir. »Comme beaucoup d'habitants, Atul Sati accuse notamment la NTPC (National Thermal Power Corporation), premier producteur d'électricité en Inde, d'avoir condamné Joshimath. En cause : un tunnel, construit à renforts d'explosifs dans la montagne sous la ville. « En juin 2022, trois géologues reconnus ont rendu un rapport. Le sol de Joshimath a été endommagé par les inondations de 2021, lorsqu'un glacier a cédé et balayé de nombreux projets hydroélectriques et fait 200 morts, déplore Atul Sati. La construction du tunnel a aggravé la situation. Et puis tous les travaux d'infrastructures autour de la ville. »Des villageois contraints de quitter leur maisonLe long d'une route à flanc de terrain devenue quasiment impraticable tant elle s'enfonce dans le sol, Ashish est venu nous montrer ce qu'il reste de sa maison en contrebas. « Notre terrain s'est enfoncé de plus d'un mètre ! La maison, il n'en reste que des ruines. Même nos parcelles sont devenues impossibles à cultiver. Là, c'est le scellé des autorités disant que les lieux sont inhabitables. On a été relogés dans un ancien camp militaire, ça me déchire le cœur de quitter les lieux où j'ai grandi. »Un peu plus loin, Rishi Devi, mère de famille de 50 ans, a elle aussi dû quitter sa maison : « Cela fait trois mois que le gouvernement nous a déplacés, mais ne fait rien pour nous. Il y a 20 ans que des études prédisaient les risques. Pourtant, la NTPC a continué à creuser des cavités sous la ville. Nous sommes effrayés pour le futur et demandons à être compensés pour ces destructions. » Non loin de là, la ville de Srinagar commence elle aussi à s'enfoncer. Les activistes accusent la construction d'une ligne de train souterraine. Dans l'Himalaya, le dérèglement des pluies lié au changement climatique aggrave les glissements de terrain. La région de Joshimath est classée par ailleurs parmi les zones sismiques les plus à risques du monde.► À lire aussi : Inde: dans l'Himalaya, la ville de Joshimath au bord du naufrage

The G20 meet in Srinagar shed the “disputed region” shibboleth on Jammu & Kashmir and is a sizeable turning point in the fraught 75-year history of the region. This is progress, and we must savour it. But we also shouldn't shy away from wading into some complexities and unfinished projects. Watch this week's #NationalInterest with ThePrint Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta.----more----Read this week's National Interest here: https://theprint.in/national-interest/article-370-to-g20-india-is-in-a-kashmir-sweet-spot-now-tick-the-last-boxes/1596939/

Jammu and Kashmir is hosting the third tourism working group meeting of G20 countries in the capital city of Srinagar. However, the event is marred with controversies, since several observers believe that the choice of Srinagar as the venue is a strategic move by the Modi government to further its party's electoral interests, by projecting that Kashmir is now peaceful and normal. And India always maintained that Kashmir is its internal matter, But given major countries including Saudi Arabia, and Turkey giving the event a miss, have Pakistan and China succeeded in internationalising the Kashmir issue such that India is now facing the repercussions?

What's expected from 3rd G20 tourism meeting starting on 22nd May in Srinagar?    

A person of many talents, Peerzada Aaqib from Srinagar is a Civil Engineer turned entrepreneur from the valley of torments, who believes in the paradigm of equality. He is popularly known as Padman of Kashmir. By passion he is a Biker, traveller and an influencer, The Biker from Kashmir has Done k2k and many more All India ‘Rides with a Mission' and causes like ‘Say no to Drugs' ‘Say No to Suicide' etc. He is active participant in many sports organised across India. He is popularly known as 'Padman of Kashmir' as he brought organic sanitary napkins in Kashmir valley under the name 'Seha' and had also worked for awareness on women's health and empowerment. He has been working hard to bust the myths especially related to menstruation. Aaqib was the First to open a bikers club in Kashmir valley for both Boys And Girls Under the name 'Bikerfromkashmirclub' and has got a good response and support from all the people. His recent All India Ride was to promote tourism in our valley and to invite people from all over India to explore the unique and unexplored destinations of Kashmir. He has organised many events till date for the youth including 'Dirt trial Race' which has happened for the first time in our valley which saw tremendous participation of bikers and people. Aaqib is regularly involved in many other social issues like awareness campaigns on Drug abuse, Domestic violence, mental health and road safety. He highlights these issues using his passion i.e Bike Riding. His Instagram: https://instagram.com/padman_aaqibpeerzada

Meet, Imran Ahmed from Badipora Kashmir. Founder Tigers Calisthenic Academy of Srinagar created history by becoming the first academy in Jammu & Kashmir to train youth in callisthenics

L'Indian National Congress sta vivendo la peggiore crisi della sua storia e la responsabilità di risolverla, questa crisi, il Partito l'ha rimessa di nuovo nelle mani di un Gandhi.Escluse le famiglie reali e alcune dittature, non c'è un'altra famiglia al mondo che possa vantare al suo interno un numero così alto di cariche pubbliche ricoperte in una democrazia. Dal 1947 ad oggi, la dinastia Gandhi ha espresso tre primi ministri che hanno governato, complessivamente, per 37 anni. Significa che su 76 anni di India indipendente, poco meno della metà sono passati sotto la guida diretta di un Gandhi. Solo che la dinastia Gandhi e il Mahatma Gandhi non c'entrano niente uno con l'altro. Gli inserti audio di questa puntata sono tratti da: Narendra Modi aide Amit Shah attacks Rahul Gandhi, calls him ‘Pappu', Ndtv, 11 ottobre 2013; Rahul Gandhi Speech, Srinagar, canale YouTube Rahul Gandhi, 30 gennaio 2023; Nehru's Speech on Gandhi's death, canale YouTube Aditya Modi, 17 gennaio 2022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To many in Srinagar, Rahul Gandhi's flag hoisting in Lal Chowk was just another political display. Post abrogation of article 370 in 2019, Kashmiris have 'lost faith in Delhi parties', analysts say.----more----Read the article here: https://theprint.in/politics/theres-a-political-vacuum-in-kashmir-and-rahuls-bharat-jodo-hasnt-bridged-it/1348323/

The Congress Party's Bharat Jodo Yatra has spent more than 120 days traveling the length of India from the southern city of Kanniyakumari to the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir.After traveling more than 3,500 kilometers, the march formally ended on January 30 in Srinagar. The yatra has grabbed headlines and riled up Congress supporters, but the question remains—what does it actually mean for the future of the Congress Party? To talk about the yatra's legacy, Milan is joined on the show this week by Dipankar Ghose, deputy national editor of the Hindustan Times and three-time winner of the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award. Dipankar covered the yatra when it traveled through Rajasthan in late December, and he and Milan discuss the yatra's impact on the Congress Party's fortunes, Rahul Gandhi's image, and the party's “vision” problem. Plus, the two discuss the BJP's reaction to the yatra and what comes next for India's struggling principal opposition party. Dipankar Ghose, “Counting milestones: A day in the life of the Bharat Jodo Yatra,” Hindustan Times, December 16, 2022.Dipankar Ghose, “Congress political crisis: The parallels in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh,” Hindustan Times, September 26, 2022.“G20, State Elections, and the Future of the Congress Party (with Sadanand Dhume and Tanvi Madan),” Grand Tamasha, December 14, 2022.  

After walking over 4000 kms and crossing 12 states and 2 Union Territories, Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra finally came to an end yesterday in Srinagar. In this episode, Indian Express' Manoj CG joins us to talk about the highlights of the yatra, whether it has helped Gandhi rebuild his image, and whether it will help the Congress electorally.Hosted and scripted by Shashank BhargavaProduced by Utsa Sarmin and Shashank BhargavaEdited and mixed by Abhishek Kumar

Winners of the GiveawaySudip MajiSanand Dekhane Litishka Jagdeo This week, The Musafir Stories speaks with slow traveller and host of the podcast - Postcards from Nowhere, Utsav Mamoria! Today's destination: Kashmir! Nearest Airport: Srinagar Airport (SXR) Nearest Railway Station: Udhampur Railway Station (UHP) Prerequisites -  Ensure to check for ground conditions before traveling Packing - Pack warm clothes depending on time of the year Time of the year - N/A Length of the itinerary: 1month Itinerary Highlights:  Utsav starts off the episode by taking us to Arq-e-gulab, one of the last remaining rosewater makers of Kashmir and shares the state of the occupation and it's originsWe also talk about Khanaqah-e-Moula, one of the oldest mosques in Kashmir - very unique for its wooden architecture as well as some stunning interiors made of papier mache.Utsav's next visit was to the carpet makers of Srinagar who make handmade carpets - again one of the last remaining generations of this traditional art form. Next stop is at Burzahom - an ancient archaeological site that has ruins that date back to 9000 years ago. There is also a very unique stone depiction of a hunting scene and its surprising connection to astronomy. We also talk about the sad state of the archaeological remains and the conflicting needs of the locals and preservation. We also cover some touristy spots like Aru valley and Betaab valley (of the movie Betaab fame, starring Sunny Deol and Amrita Singh). Utsav talks about his experience trekking to the Shesh Nag lake and his encounter with the hospitality of the native Gujar bakharwal shepherd community. We also discuss about the challenges this community and their occupation faces. We next talk about Utsav's visit to the Ganesh Temple in Pehalgam also called the Mamleshwar temple and the story of Ganesh and Karthikeya circumnavigating the world. One of our final stops is a visit to the Kargil war memorial and Hunderman Museum of memories, talking about the village of Hunderman and how it exchanged hands between India and Pakistan during recent conflicts, and how the people's lives have been impacted.  Links: Utsav's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whywetravel42/ Utsav's Twitter - https://twitter.com/utsavmamoria Link to Utsav's podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/1wBEmLH3UjoMV0kbMgy5gy?si=LULYcnCYRdWvb5YwkiGBrQ  Links to Utsav's series on Kashmir: The last rosewater maker of Srinagarhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/7K2uTDPcq2X2C5gQkow503?si=JuSpdW09T_ePCVRZW_l5oQ  The Art of Writing Time: Persian and Sanskrit Chronogramshttps://open.spotify.com/episode/1UebJ7ccoS9XTUQQuZ8HOl?si=Bby4cTN0RYesN5Mv0njVbA  Gujar Bakarwals - The forgotten people of Kashmirhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/7mAxndubsMcu0zPf4VnhVS?si=LAPU62buTae83EuQyXMKdA  Kargil, Hunderman and The Museum of Memories https://open.spotify.com/episode/7mAxndubsMcu0zPf4VnhVS?si=LAPU62buTae83EuQyXMKdA  Srinagar, ancient carvings and Supernovashttps://open.spotify.com/episode/2wEMBgiBkYzeliXKvG5Ph7?si=6UrAITjNTiiPFUG3aEHqNQ  Kashmiris, Hangul and the Manual of Lifehttps://open.spotify.com/episode/7bzdllBWy48K1LieJgmTqq?si=Ndfx4nKdR3yF0LDMkHughA  The Vanishing art of Kashmiri carpet weavinghttps://open.spotify.com/episode/2kTTQkdiS0LFhzdOwXRuAT?si=f1U0aDXIQnCyejPKMg6H2Q  Sheshnag, deadly hikes and a thousand year old traditionhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/2OL8mp09s2FQdmS2Z5bHKB?si=q0deAcUgSnyikahLnQtY0Q  Zbayul, the invisible village of Ladakhhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/0WZNprAo1ISgz2L2HE3HM1?si=4xM3YilSSxSq-DgLKuCyPg  Cover Photo by Raisa Nastukova on Unsplash Follow the Musafir stories on:Twitter : https://twitter.com/musafirstories?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themusafirstories/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/musafirstoriespodcast/?hl=en website: www.themusafirstories.com email: themusafirstories@gmail.com Do follow IVM Podcasts on social media. We are @IVMPodcasts on Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram. https://twitter.com/IVMPodcasts https://www.instagram.com/ivmpodcasts/?hl=en https://www.facebook.com/ivmpodcasts/ Follow the show across platforms: Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, JioSaavn, Gaana, Amazon Music Do share the word with you folks!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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