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  India in Peril

  9 December, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  Today is December 6, 2018. On this day twentysix years ago “to build a temple to mark the birthplace of Ram, a mosque was destroyed by deceit”, as the founder of this publication wrote on December 19, 1992, thirteen days after the Babri  (...)

• Gap between Growth and Unemployment Widening

  9 December
  by A.V.V.S.K. Rao and M. Ramulu
  “Employment and well placed labour produce in a country general prosperity, content and cheerfulness”. —Daniel Weber
  Introduction
  India is facing severe crises of employment and livelihood. Economic growth since 2012  (...)

• Elections Diminish Democracy!

  9 December
  by L.K. Sharma
  Large hoardings in Jaipur, the capital of one of the five poll-bound States in India, call upon the voters to celebrate the democracy “festival” —tyohar, the Hindi word for a religious festival. The Election Commission’s messages are  (...)

• Politics of Globalisation defining the Mode of Farmers’ Agitation

  9 December
  by Arun Srivastava
  After many years India is witnessing the emergence of a farmers’ movement albeit not in the classical form of the earlier farmers’ move-ments or peasant movements of the seventies. But at some level it heralds the message that  (...)

• Indian Constitutional Courts and Secularism—II

  9 December
  by Irfan Engineer
  The first part of this two-part article appeared in last week’s Mainstream (December 1, 2018). This is the second and concluding part.
  In the previous issue of Mainstream (December 1, 2018) we briefly outlined the tension  (...)

• Human Rights: Basic Issues / Not Sorrow but Atonement

  9 December, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  Human Rights Day is observed on December 10 every year commemorating the day, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To mark the occasion we are reproducing the  (...)

• Deconstructing the Politics of Renaming

  9 December, by Arup Kumar Sen
  Renaming cities and places is nothing new in world history. The socio-political context of its happening is important. Catherine Epstein in her book, Nazi Germany: Confronting the Myths (Wiley Blackwell, 2015), drew our attention to what  (...)

• Asia-Pacific and Indo-Pacific: Indian Dream versus the Indian Fairy-tale

  9 December
  by Shrabana Barua
  With the rebalancing of the Asia strategy of the Trump Administration, Indo-Pacific as a term began to overlap with that of Asia-Pacific. Though broadly both these terms roughly point to the region east of the Indian  (...)

• Arrest of “Urban Naxals” decried at Public meeting in the Capital

  9 December
  A public meeting was held at the Constitution Club on Saturday, December 1, 2018 to discuss the worrisome trend of anti-terror laws being used to stifle democratic dissent by harassing civil rights lawyers, poets, writers. The meeting was called  (...)

• Rohingya Sympathisers’ Open Letter to Union Home Minister

  9 December
  Hon’ble Home Minister,
  We understand from news reports that under instructions from your Ministry, the intelligence agencies, have prepared a State-wise list of several organisations and individuals, who are sympathetic to the Rohingya refugees  (...)

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