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  Rhetoric and Reality

  7 October, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  Mahatma Gandhi’s 149th birth anniversary was observed this week on October 2, 2018. That was the day when the country decided to launch the year- long celebrations marking Gandhiji’s 150th birth anniversary. [Of course, with the people  (...)

• Is Cleanliness Gandhi’s Greatest Contribution to Nation-Building?

  7 October, by Devaki Jain
  It has been distressing for me to notice how the entire space for celebrating Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary by the Government of India has been focusing on toilets: public defecation-free India. In the process of shifting public attention,  (...)

• The Judicial Archer

  7 October, by S G Vombatkere
  In a Mahabharata tale, Dronacharya—who taught the skills of warfare to the Pandava and Kaurava princes—overheard Duryodhana saying that he unjustly favoured Arjuna over others. To prove him wrong, Dronacharya decided to test his pupils, by placing  (...)

• India and the Neighbourhood: New Delhi’s Faltering Diplomacy

  7 October
  by Purusottam Bhattacharya
  New Delhi finds itself on a sticky wicket at the moment so far as its neighbourhood policy is concerned. (Neighbourhood for the purpose of this article denotes India’s immediate and smaller South Asian neighbours  (...)

• Indian Muslims: Differing Views

  7 October, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS
  It is the irony of ironies that (a) the Government of India banned triple talaq without getting a proper Bill properly passed in Parliament, and (b) Muslims attacked the “reform”, saying that it will not help Muslim women. Who said  (...)

• World Economy — A Decade after the Financial Crisis

  7 October
  by V. Mathew Kurian
  I. Introduction
  In 2008, America confronted a financial crisis which later spread to other parts of the world making it a global financial crisis. The financial meltdown as a contagion affected adversely the functioning of  (...)

• Lessons to be Learnt from Kerala Disaster

  7 October
  by Mahendra Ved
  At a time when India’s political class as a whole, and the government in particular, leave resolution of many contentious issues to the ‘wisdom’ of the Supreme Court, taking time off, two of its judges, Justices K.M. Joseph and  (...)

• Highest European Court Ruling Confirms Serious Risks of Gene-Edited Crops

  7 October, by Bharat Dogra
  At a time when more and more people in the world are becoming concerned about the serious health risks and numerous other adverse impacts of genetically modified (GM) crops and genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the enormously powerful  (...)

• Understanding Mohanji Bhagwat’s Formulations

  7 October, by Badri Raina
  So perplexing have Shri Mohan Bhagwat’s formulations been with regard to the meaning of being “Hindu” that days after his lecture series one is still struggling to understand, if you like, make sense of what seem some convolutions and conundrums  (...)

• Under Yogi UP turning into another Kashmir!

  7 October, by Humra Quraishi
  MUSINGS
  During his election campaigns Yogi Adityanath’s speeches carried a particular one- liner, along the strain that under Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Government the State of Uttar Pradesh was turning into another Kashmir!
  In fact, it’s today,  (...)

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