Urmilla Deshpande and Thiago Pinto Barbosa’s 2024 book, ‘Iru’, celebrates India’s first female anthropologist. Beyond Karve’s scholarly work, it highlights her writings in Marathi.
The city, named Ocomtun by anthropology institute, includes large pyramid-like buildings, stone columns, three plazas with ‘imposing buildings’ arranged in almost-concentric circles.
RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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