Tag: current affairs – India

Your Silence in the Face of Enormous Societal Threat Is Deafening: Former Civil Servants to Modi

More than 100 former civil servants have said that the recent instances of “hate violence against [India’s] minority communities, particularly Muslims” represent the “subordination of the fundamental principles of our constitution and of the rule of law to the forces of majoritarianism”, accusing the state of being “fully complicit” in this process. In a letter to… Read More Your Silence in the Face of Enormous Societal Threat Is Deafening: Former Civil Servants to Modi

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Govt Agency Confirms Centre's Auctions Allowed Millers To Corner Pulses Meant For The Poor

The Union government’s auctions to provide pulses to the poor and armed forces, worth more than Rs 4,600 crore, were rigged to benefit a few big millers, findings from the National Productivity Council, headed by commerce minister Piyush Goyal, have revealed. The council presented its preliminary findings on October 11, 2021, to a committee overseeing… Read More Govt Agency Confirms Centre's Auctions Allowed Millers To Corner Pulses Meant For The Poor

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Raghuram Rajan & Rohit Lamba: Groups, not individuals, are the focus of most policy, politics. This has social, economic costs

Everyone grows up with (or into) individual traits such as gender and intelligence, but also different group identities – you can be a Hindu or a Muslim, a Dalit or a Kayasth, a Bengali or a Malayali, and so on. How should the Indian state see the individual – as primarily defined by their individuality… Read More Raghuram Rajan & Rohit Lamba: Groups, not individuals, are the focus of most policy, politics. This has social, economic costs

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P. B. Mehta: With eyes wide open, we’re hurtling into an abyss / In Jahangirpuri, bulldozers leave trail of despair

 Anyone who has ever genuinely immersed themselves in Ramcharitmanas will recognise the singular poignancy of one moment in the Sundarkand where Hanuman meets Sita. Until that point the story is hurtling towards disaster. Sita has been abducted. Ram is distraught and unsure of himself. But the moment Hanuman meets Sita is the point at which… Read More P. B. Mehta: With eyes wide open, we’re hurtling into an abyss / In Jahangirpuri, bulldozers leave trail of despair

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Bharat Bhushan: Communal djinn and the vanishing State

NB: It would appear that the ruling dispensation known as the Sangh Parivar wishes communal hatred to become widespread and ‘spontaneous’. Contrary to their expectations however, this push towards violently imposed homogeneity is not a step toward national unity but a recipe for disintegration and the end of the Indian Union as a law-governed state.… Read More Bharat Bhushan: Communal djinn and the vanishing State

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The good news – Karnataka: Belur temple continues tradition of starting festival with Quran recitation / Hindus protected mosque during Ramnavmi procession in Bihar / ‘This is Hindustan’: Hindu woman protected Muslim shopkeepers during riots in Rajasthan

“Reading excerpts from the Quran is a tradition but this year, there was a confusion as the temple authorities had initially issued a notice barring Muslim traders from setting up stalls. However, the endowment department took the suggestion of various priests and decided to go ahead with the tradition,” an official from the Endowment department… Read More The good news – Karnataka: Belur temple continues tradition of starting festival with Quran recitation / Hindus protected mosque during Ramnavmi procession in Bihar / ‘This is Hindustan’: Hindu woman protected Muslim shopkeepers during riots in Rajasthan

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मौन मोदी के नाम भारत के मन की बात #SakshiJoshi

मौन मोदी के नाम भारत के मन की बात Our contributors are our viewers. Please Support independent journalism so we can bring you unbiased news without any pressure. Subscribe to SAKSHI JOSHI on youtube and facebook, like and share our video reports. comment more and more to expand its reach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBoI5YHbqY follow me on Twitter… Read More मौन मोदी के नाम भारत के मन की बात #SakshiJoshi

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Constitution-makers did not envisage a monolithic government: M.K. Stalin

The founders of our Constitution did not create a unitary, monolith government. The powers and functions were separated into three, and they were placed under the State List, the Concurrent List and the Union List. After the passing of the Panchayat Raj Act, local self-government bodies were given rights, and the powers were devolved. Hence,… Read More Constitution-makers did not envisage a monolithic government: M.K. Stalin

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Bharat Bhushan: Media persecution in J&K is a misguided venture

The Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) administration and the security forces are doing themselves a great disservice by creating an extremely coercive eco-system for journalists in the Union Territory (UT). Those administering the UT are rapidly losing out on the critical feedback that could make the system more stable. An apocryphal story amongst journalists in Srinagar… Read More Bharat Bhushan: Media persecution in J&K is a misguided venture

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The Kashmir Files

NB: Here are two reviews of The Kashmir Files, with different interpretations. Readers are welcome to their own conclusions. Since this is a matter I have spoken and written about for many years, I attach below a selection of my posts beneath the reviews, without further comment. DS The Kashmir Files: Cinema As Testimony. Siddhartha Gigoo K-Files… Read More The Kashmir Files

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