Romila Thapar: Why Indian History Cannot be Reduced to 'Hindu vs Muslim' (CD Deshmukh Lecture, 2023) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0i5YqaYREo
The WireJan 19, 2023
Titled “Our History, Your History, Whose History?”, her speech delivered at the annual C.D.Deshmukh memorial lecture at the India International Centre brought out the primary contradiction between professional historians who depend on methodological analysis that “demands a training in reading sources” to give an understanding of how our past came to be and popular historians who lack training but more often than create an imagined history to establish majoritarian supremacy.

Ex-Foreign Minister Jack Straw Confirms UK Report that ‘Modi Directly Responsible’ for 2002 Riots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gYkcqExkac The Wire
 Jan 21, 2023
Jack Straw, who was Britain’s Foreign Secretary in 2002 when the Gujarat killings happened, has confirmed that the British High Commissioner in India sent a report to the Foreign Office in London which said “Narendra Modi is directly responsible” for the killings in 2002 in Gujarat. “That was the feeling of those on the ground”, he said. Mr. Straw has also said that “the allegation and belief at the time (2002)” was, as the British High Commission report put it, “Narendra Modi met senior police officers on the 27th of February and ordered them not to intervene in the rioting”. Mr. Straw has also confirmed that the report he received said the killings in Gujarat “has all the hallmark of ethnic cleansing”. He said he was “very concerned indeed about that”.

https://youtu.be/8gYkcqExkac?t=211

According to a new study, climate change is threatening the health and survival of trees grown in urban areas to keep them cool, with more than half of the species already feeling the heat. https://thredmedia.medium.com/cities-are-becoming-too-hot-for-trees-59b14192c571

If you spent your summer in a city, likelihood is you were forced to endure intense, record-breaking heatwaves throughout July.

According to the findings, climate change is threatening the health and survival of the trees we rely on to make cities liveable, with more than half of them worldwide (including oaks, maples, poplars, elms, pines, and chestnuts) said to have already been pushed beyond their comfort zones.

Within the next decade or so, this figure is expected to hit two-thirds, unless of course scientists act now — and fast — by better protecting existing trees and planting a much higher number of drought-resistant varieties.

‘We emphasise the importance of taking immediate actions in terms of the climate emergency to secure the survival and persistence of urban forests,’ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX-0szAK9Bg