Tin
Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn (from Latin: stannum) and atomic number 50. Tin is a silvery metal that characteristically has a faint yellow hue. Tin, like indium, is soft enough to be cut without much force. When a bar of tin is bent, the so-called “tin cry” can be heard as a result of twinning in tin crystals; this trait is shared by indium, cadmium, zinc, and frozen mercury. Pure tin after solidifying keeps a mirror-like appearance similar to most metals. However, in most tin alloys (such as pewter), the metal solidifies with a dull gray …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 15 March 2023 English
Junali Risong is an expert maker of ‘apong’ in Majuli island, and she spends many of her mornings preparing it at home. The rice beer, which is a meal staple …
fire and letting them smoulder and burn gently on a tin sheet in her backyard. “It takes 3-4 hours to burn …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 March 2023 English
First History Lessons is a series of three books published under ‘Revisiting the Craft of History Writing for Children’, a project by the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK), Kolkata. …
Fifty Years) (1969) (d) Ashok Mitra’s autobiography: Tin Kuri Dosh (Three Scores and Ten) (1959) 53 Many people …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 15 February 2023 English
Just like Mahatma Phule's student Mukta Salve challenged the caste system in 1885, Kadubai Kharat has raised her voice and ektari against oppression in our times – guided by Babasaheb's …
Hasan PHOTO • Imaad ul Hasan Kadubai built a small tin hut on gairan land near the Aurangabad-Beed bypass …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 9 June 2022 English
On his birth anniversary, a tribute to Shahir Atmaram Salve, whose fiery poetry shaped the Namantar movement in Marathwada in the 1970s-80s. His songs stir the struggle for Dalit rights …
in Dalit vastis (settlements) – half of them had tin roofs and half had thatched roofs. There would be …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 15 November 2021 English
For six months every year, salt pan workers in Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi district labour under a blazing sun to harvest the most common kitchen staple, weathering poor working conditions and …
pouch from her waist – it holds a tiny two-rupee tin of Amrutanjan and a Vicks inhaler. “This [and her …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 3 August 2021 English
This report was published on August 3, 2021, by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), a non-governmental organisation based in New Delhi. It outlines the “harassment, attacks and intimidation” faced …
1945, Dainik Manipur Patrika in 1933 (Manipur), Ni Tin Chanchinbu in 1939 (Mizoram), and Jagran in 1954 …
LC: Library of Congress · 2021 English
"The Trillion Dollar War is the culmination of an Afghan's personal life story weaved into academic understanding and coupled with professional experience in the field of development. It is written …
Men punched and kicked each oth- er to gain possession of the tins; women tore food from each other’s mouths to push into …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 May 2020 English
When even their paltry income stopped due to the Covid-19 lockdown, and their BPL ration cards were rejected at PDS outlets, April was the cruelest month for Gayabai Chavan and …
on her income of about Rs. 8,500 every month. Her tin-roofed house in the Shastri Nagar chawl is in a state …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 May 2020 English
A new documentary film in which the migrant labourers who make up most of the workforce on Bengaluru’s metro rail project explain their situation in Covid-19 lockdown time
co-workers feel the same way. All living in homes made of tin sheets – sharing rooms with 10-15 others, even as …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 April 2020 English
Unlocking the Urban: Reimagining Migrant Lives in Cities Post-COVID 19 is a report released by Aajeevika Bureau (an organisation working with migrant workers in Gujarat and Rajasthan) in April 2020. …
of straw or tin sheets) to pucca (permanent concrete, brick or stone walls with RCC or tin roof). On average … and are compelled to sleep outside or on slanted tin roofs instead. Image 5: Rented rooms housing single … crumbling, exposed asbestos in the walls, and rusted tin roofs. For hotel workers in Paldi, if the landlord …
