Tag: current affairs – India

India Under Modi: Shrinking Democracy, Growing Inequalities

Narendra Modi’s decade in power has seen an erosion of democracy alongside soaring inequality. While religious nationalism diverts public attention, the super-rich add to their wealth. Economic performance remains lacklustre, welfare spending stagnant, and authoritarian tactics silence dissent. Atul Kohli; Kanta Murali —Growing economic inequalities under Congress governments after 1991 fractured the party’s voter base,… Read More India Under Modi: Shrinking Democracy, Growing Inequalities

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Gitanjali Angmo’s ‘surveillance’ raises question on personal freedoms of NSA detainee’s family members

Krishnadas Rajagopal Sonam Wangchuk’s wife told the Supreme Court that she was accompanied by security personnel, her meetings supervised, not allowed to meet anyone in Jodhpur and was ‘taken’ to the railway station, ‘constantly’ surveilled in Delhi, among other infringements of her ‘fundamental rights as a free citizen of India’ A complaint by Gitanjali Angmo,… Read More Gitanjali Angmo’s ‘surveillance’ raises question on personal freedoms of NSA detainee’s family members

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Stopping Francesca Orsini From Entering India is an Insult to the Very Concept and Culture of Knowledge

NB: Vishwaguru’s India: Thou shalt not think without prior clearance from the Headquarters of Truth, located in Nagpur. DS What happened to Orsini may appear, on the surface, to be an ordinary incident, but the signs it carries are deeply frightening. Yogesh Pratap Shekhar The morning after the festival of lights, Diwali, came news of… Read More Stopping Francesca Orsini From Entering India is an Insult to the Very Concept and Culture of Knowledge

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Heavy recoil

This idea that the world was increasingly being shaped by a freemasonry of Western majoritarians seems to have seduced Modi’s government into thinking of India as the West’s indispensable partner…. By mimicking the rhetoric and the practices of the West’s ‘savarna’ nations, Modi’s government thought it could deal at the world’s top table. This strategy… Read More Heavy recoil

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Kerala woman gets a ‘thank you’ from Gaza

Sreereshmi Udayakumar arranged a 3,000-litre water truck to make the supply to around 250 Palestinian families Sreereshmi Udayakumar. Photo: Special arrangement A young woman from Kerala is making headlines with visuals showing displaced families in Gaza thanking her for arranging drinking water supply for them going viral on social media. Sreereshmi Udayakumar, the founder of… Read More Kerala woman gets a ‘thank you’ from Gaza

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‘Zubeen was for all’: Singer’s death unites India’s religiously torn Assam

Amid soaring Hindu-Muslim tensions in the BJP-ruled northeastern state, Zubeen Garg’s music served as a rare unifier. In Garg’s music, the idea of an Assam for Hindus and Muslims, Assamese speakers and Bengali speakers alike, was not an illusion. “Zubeen’s songs did not merely entertain, they also addressed the depths of what it means to… Read More ‘Zubeen was for all’: Singer’s death unites India’s religiously torn Assam

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RSS’ success also has seeds of destruction

The RSS’ intellectual stagnation and myth-based narratives risk alienating it from India’s knowledge-driven society Bharat Bhushan One hundred years ago, on Vijayadashami Day, September 27, 1925, the men who gathered at the residence of Keshav Baliram Hedgewar in Nagpur could have hardly imagined how powerful the organisation they were founding would become. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a… Read More RSS’ success also has seeds of destruction

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Citizens for Democracy: Defend the Ladakhi people’s democratic rights / ‘If Innovators Are Treated Like Criminals, How Will India Become Vishwaguru?’: Sonam Wangchuk’s Wife Fires Back At Govt

‘If Innovators Are Treated Like Criminals, How Will India Become Vishwaguru?’: Sonam Wangchuk’s Wife Fires Back At Govt Call of Citizens for Democracy: We are witnessing a dangerous drift in the name of ‘national security ‘ in the frontier province of Ladakh. The peace-loving people of Ladakh are being demonised as anti-national agitators under the… Read More Citizens for Democracy: Defend the Ladakhi people’s democratic rights / ‘If Innovators Are Treated Like Criminals, How Will India Become Vishwaguru?’: Sonam Wangchuk’s Wife Fires Back At Govt

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