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“anand ranganathan”

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  • Forgotten Heroes of Indian Science

    by Anand Ranganathan, Sheetal Ranganathan ...
    Upendranath Brahmachari conjured a potent drug to vanquish the spectre of Kala Azar, saving millions from the deadly disease. Ramnath Chopra explored ancient Ayurvedic knowledge, extracting a natural compound from Sarpagandha to treat seizures and high blood pressure. Azizul Haque and Hemchandra Bose etched a novel cipher for fingerprints birthing the science of forensics, with their elegant ... Read more

    $7.59 USD

  • The Rat Eater

    by For Love and Honour Anand Ranganathan, Chitra Subramaniam ...
    'I was born on a bloody road. The blood was my mother's. My sisters couldn't find a midwife in time. There was no way my mother could get relief from the upper-caste well, and so they tell me, that my sisters ran to some puddles to fill their little mouths up and then ran back to where my mother was almost dying of pain and then spat out some water on her face and the rest down below on mine. That ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Hindus in Hindu Rashtra

    Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid

    by Anand Ranganathan ...
    To those who claim we are now living in a totalitarian, fascist, Hindu Rashtra, one must ask: What kind of a Hindu Rashtra is this where a billionstrong Hindus have been, through our parliament, through our courts, our education system, and our constitution, reduced to not just secondclass but, rather, eighthclass citizens? What kind of Hindu Rashtra is this where Ram Navami, Hanuman Jayanti, ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

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  • Modi's India

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