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This is a book review of Rochona Majumdar, Art Cinema and India's Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony (Columbia University Press, 2021). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In his essay, Sukhpal Singh dwells on the nature of land markets, issues of wastelands, leasing and contract farming, and the prevalent institutional mechanisms. He opines that strong advocacy for liberalising land laws and policies is a crucial factor to develop the land market. One of the very important issues which occupy a prominent position in the land-agrarian relation is the acquisition of land and its impact on both land losers and livelihood losers. [Extracted from the article]

Catherine Jones and Sarah Teitt, eds. China–North Korea Relations: Between Development and Security (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020), pp. 232, ₹2,949, ISBN 9781788979702 (hardback). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers poetry criticism of the poem "Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol" by Sri Aurobindo. It is noted that the writings revolve around the fact that man has a spritual destiny and a divinity. The article explores the theme of death as a perversion imposed on an individual life and concludes that the quest of a deathless state can easily be traced through the poem.

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