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The Hidden Price of Luxury: Coach Handbags Linked to Amazon Deforestation

The Hidden Price of Luxury: Coach Handbags Linked to Amazon Deforestation

Coach luxury handbags have been linked to illegal Amazon deforestation through Brazilian leather supply chains connected to cattle ranching on stolen indigenous land, new investigation reveals. European fashion brands risk complicity in environmental crimes whilst marketing sustainable products to consumers seeking ethical luxury goods.

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India's Foreign Policy in a Changing World
The Kargil War
Raja Ravi Varma
On a Clear Day You Can See India
Non Stop India
India in Love
Finding Delhi
A to Z of World Development
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The Elusive Fibre

Cotton white gold

Scouring through old journals and magazines can throw up fascinating snippets about the past, and many of those can catch you by surprise, and set you thinking all over again. Scraping websites for cotton alternatives, at some point, can well take one to a particular report from the proceedings of a textiles-related event would make for interesting reading. It goes thus: Speaking at the annual meeting of the Bradford Dyers’ Association, recently, Sir Milton Sharp, observed that the deplorable...

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Review: India's Foreign Policy in a Changing World

Review of India's Foreign Policy in a Changing World

The problem with these kind of books in a fast-changing world and a country where Prime Ministers come and go is that while the perceptions of the past remain unchanged, the conclusions part become hopelessly outdated and irrelevant. VP Dutt, with his new volume on India's foreign policy, will remain on safe ground for the moment - the just-concluded polls ensuring that there is no change of guard at New Delhi.Dutt does delve into the past, but he devotes more space and words to the developments...

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