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About Rashid Faridi

I am Rashid Aziz Faridi ,Writer, Teacher and a Voracious Reader.

Gandhi’s Dystopia – More Mobile Phones Than Toilets: Apurv Mishra

Originally posted on KAFILA – COLLECTIVE EXPLORATIONS SINCE 2006:
Guest Post by APURV MISHRA  “Sanitation is more important than independence”, said Gandhi, the godfather of our freedom fighters, in 1925. Unlike Nehru, who believed that sovereignty and self-rule were a prerequisite for social…

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[Podcast] Vancouver: Consumption City

Originally posted on the city:
Trump Tower Vancouver construction. Photo by Andy Longhurst. Economic geographer Elliot Siemiatycki discusses Vancouver’s transformation from a productive city into a city of consumption [audio http://thecityfm.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/vancouver_-consumption-city.mp3%5D Never miss an episode! Subscribe to the podcast here to…

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BOOK: Darwin’s On the Origin of Species: A Modern Rendition

Originally posted on The Dispersal of Darwin:
A new book from Indiana University Press, which is having a Darwin Day sale from February 12-28: Daniel Duzdevich, Darwin’s on the Origin of Species: A Modern Rendition (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2014), 352…

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गायब होते चाल: एक अनोखी जल संरक्षण प्रणाली

`चाल’ सामान्य अर्थ में सिर्फ वाटर टैंक नहीं हुआ करते थे। पहाड़ों पर यह पानी को सहेजने का एक तरीका हुआ करता थ्‍। पर अब चाल-खाल गायब हो रहे हैं। इसके साथ ही गायब हो रही है पहाड़ की पारंपरिक … Continue reading

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