A mutual asked me for some basic reading materials on Israel and Palestine, so thought I would post it here also. It's not an exhaustive list obvs, but hopefull will be of some use to those interested: 1) Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History with Documents- Charles D. Smith. Prolly the best single volume work on the topic, very balanced and fair, with over 40 primary documents included in the appendices.

''Vultures act as nature’s sanitation service. In India, their diet consisted largely of rotting livestock carcasses—numbering 30m a year in the cattle-revering country. A group of vultures can polish off a cow’s carrion in 40 minutes.''
economist.com/graphic-detail… Their strongly acidic digestive tracts destroy most germs.

Historically, vultures were widespread in India. But between the 1990s and early 2000s their numbers plummeted by more than 90%, from around 40m.

Women's Emancipation as a Source of Moral Decay: the Moral Universe of the Gita Press, PART ONE,

pp.358-365, "Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India", @Akshayamukul

#ConradsReads Women's Emancipation as a Source of Moral Decay: the Moral Universe of the Gita Press, PART TWO,

pp.366-271, "Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India", @Akshayamukul

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Begumati Zubaan and the Language of the Street: Women Urdu Writers in Hyderabad,

pp.20-27, "Bibi's Room: Hyderabadi Women and Twentieth Century Urdu Prose" @Nazia_Akhtar27

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