Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 18, June 25, 2022 Now Is The Time To Say Goodbye | T J S George Jammu and Kashmir: ‘Muscular Policy’ or Policy Paralysis | M A Sofi Naga National Assembly: Foreboding of a cold Peace | Kumar Sanjay Singh A Spark May Lead to Fire: Could India… Read More Mainstream, June 18 & June 25, 2022
Convening of the Emergency National Assembly on 31 May 2022 marks the apogee of the most torrid fortnight of the talks. Apparently, the fraught issue of Naga flag and constitution is at the root of the current instability. That trust has been a casualty is borne out in the statements of those involved in peace… Read More Kumar Sanjay Singh: Naga National Assembly: Foreboding of a cold and ungenerous peace
The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol presented evidence on Thursday that Donald Trump was told his last-gasp attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election was unlawful but forged ahead anyway. Trump then pressured his vice-president, Mike Pence, to reject a tally of state electors as part of a plot that… Read More Trump brought US ‘dangerously close to catastrophe’, January 6 panel says
Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira have been killed in an undeclared global war against nature and the people who defend it. Their work mattered because our planet, the threats to it and the activities of those who threaten it matter. That work must be continued. The frontlines of this war are the Earth’s remaining biodiverse regions –… Read More There is a war on nature. Dom Phillips was killed trying to warn you about it
NB: The RSS/BJP government is destroying the rule of law in plain sight of the judiciary, bureaucrats and police, all of whom are sworn to uphold the Indian Constitution. It takes a minutes or hours to destroy a home and the hearts of its inhabitants; but it will take decades to restore the faith of… Read More Bharat Bhushan: Political significance of Uttar Pradesh’s bulldozer demolitions
The structure of the military has immense ramifications for security, and also for social organisation at large. The Agnipath scheme is a major structural reform with consequences both for the armed forces and society at large. Some reforms and restructuring of the armed forces was overdue. Sometimes, scepticism about reforms reflects an underlying status quo… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Agnipath is not the reform the armed forces need
NB: To this timely statement I will add just one observation directed at all those groups and individuals who seem to derive their meaning of life via abuse, hatred, machismo and what in north India we call rangdaari. I have commented on this useless controversy here – read it if you can still engage in rational… Read More Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy support free speech; condemn hate speech, death threats / Media coverage of IMSD Statement
NB: A very well written and timely reminder. My two caveats are 1) with the word back; and 2) with the positioning of the word crisis. It is not ‘back’, because after the Napoleonic wars it never went away; and a more appropriate title description of our time (with due respect to Gurudev), would be… Read More Anjan Basu: The Crisis in Civilisation that Rabindranath Tagore red-flagged Is back upon us
NB: An excellent review of an excellent book. Purushottam Agrawal has done us a public service. DS Kabir, the famous religious poet of Varanasi, lived from roughly 1440 CE to 1518 CE. He first became well-known outside of India in 1915 when Rabindranath Tagore published an English translation of 100 songs, or bhajans, attributed to Kabir. Tagore’s translation… Read More Book review: Kabir and the Question of Modernity
NB: Amidst all the flames of outrage, let me add a small reminder taken from daily life: it is not merely the speaking of factual data that counts, what counts more is the manner of speech, the way in which we speak what we think is the truth. In all religious traditions, there are theories… Read More Bharat Bhushan: New Bharatiya Janata Party's troubled road ahead / Sickular Libtard: Nupurgate and after
After the truth-shower 