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  On the Medicos’ Strike in Bengal

  24 June
  POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
  The week-long strike of the junior doctors in West Bengal, which brought the entire public health care system to a grinding halt, causing untold misery to the suffering public, was called off after Chief Minister Mamata  (...)

• Who Cares for Bengal?

  24 June
  by Apoorvanand
  The following article was first published in a different form in The Wire (https://thewire.in/communalism/bengal-violence-tmc-bjp) on June 14, 2018. This is its revised and updated version. Since this piece was written things have  (...)

• Democracy can Die in Daylight Too

  24 June
  by Krishna Prasad
  Modesty is not a virtue of the media in the pixel age, in which preening is a 24x7 pastime. There is neither a demand for it from consumers, nor a supply of it from the practitioners. Equili-brium has been achieved in the  (...)

• Distortion of the Constitution

  24 June
  by P.B. Sawant
  The BJP and its Parivar have never accepted our Constitution and have always been seeking a new Constitution whose objectives are exactly opposite to those of the present one and there is no secret about it. The party has always  (...)

• Kashmir Today: Striving for Peace, Need to Address Alienation

  24 June
  by Ram Puniyani
  Since the Narendra Modi Government has returned with a thumping majority, any plan of action by the BJP on Kashmir should give due importance to the strengthening of dialogue and deepening of the process of democracy.
  After the  (...)

• Bijbehara: A Challenge to Nation’s Conscience

  24 June, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  Autumn has set in—the chinar in its gorgeous robe. But it is an autumn of bitter sorrow for the hapless people of Kashmir. The Valley, which was known as the paradise on earth, has been turned into a trough of hatred, of  (...)

• Priorities for Modi: Thrust from Act East to Indo-Pacific

  24 June
  by Rajaram Panda
  This article was written before the Bishkek Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
  Context
  The general elections in India conducted in seven phases lasting over 40 days to the 17th Lok Sabha (Lower House)  (...)

• ICT Revolution, Digitisation and Growth

  24 June
  by Sanchita Bhattacharya and Arup Mitra
  Resource-intensive growth is not desirable for most of the developing countries as serious trade-offs are involved between the present and future growth outcomes. Non-resource driven growth is the key to  (...)

• Mapping Pasmanda Politics in India: Demands and Challenges

  24 June
  by Shamsher Alam
  Understanding the Pasmanda and Dalit Muslims
  The word ‘Pasmanda’ has a Persian origin. ‘The term pasmanda ... is a combination of two words, pase and manda which when joined together means those who have been left behind. The  (...)

• Threatened Existence of Tadvis (Bheels, Muslims etc.)

  24 June
  by Mustafa Khan
  The death of Dr Payal Tadvi, a second year post-graduate at the Nair Hospital in Mumbai, is regrettable and unfortunate. She was doing her post-graduation and that in itself was enviable because of the difficulty in getting  (...)

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