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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Oct 5, 2024

  5 October

  * A New Language of ‘Call for Justice | Arup Kumar Sen
  * Controversy over Bengal Floods Revives Concerns on Role of Dams | Bharat Dogra
  * Remembering Gandhi In War-Ravaged And Polarized Time | Vijay Kumar
  * Sitaram Yechury and non-sectarian leftwing politics | Pritam Singh
  * For Meitei-Kuki Peace in Manipur | Sandeep Pandey
  * Open Letter to Biden & Harris from American Doctors who served in Gaza

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 5, 2024

  5 October
  Double standards in the application of law have come to be commonplace in India. People with influence (in good books of the powers that be) generally benefit when the police and investigation agencies dilute charges, hold back action against  (...)

• Court Cases Galore in Karnataka | J P Gadkari

  5 October, by J P Gadkari
  October 4, 2024
  During the last couple of weeks cases are being filed on regular basis against each other among the political opponent and so-called social activists.
  Firstly, the MUDA land scam case against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was  (...)

• A New Language of ‘Call for Justice | Arup Kumar Sen

  5 October, by Arup Kumar Sen
  On October 2, 2024, West Bengal witnessed a unique procession/rally from College Street to Dharmatala crossing in central Kolkata. Thousands of people from different segments of the population joined the procession mobilized by West Bengal  (...)
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  Sitaram Yechury and non-sectarian leftwing politics | Pritam Singh

  5 October, by Pritam Singh
  One image and an idea that prominently comes to mind when considering paying tribute to Sitaram Yechury are non-sectarian ways of conducting politics. Politics in India, especially in the last few years, has become so polarised that the idea of  (...)

• Lateral Entry in Civil Services – Balancing the Demands for ‘Specialists’ and the Imperatives of ‘Social Justice’ | K Gireesan & Jos Chathukulam

  5 October, by Jos Chathukulam
  The practice of bringing domain experts into the government is not new to India. It is a fact that lateral entry could bring in fresh ideas, energy, talents, and diverse experiences into the bureaucracy that will augment the state capacities to  (...)

• Remembering Gandhi In War-Ravaged And Polarized Time | Vijay Kumar

  5 October, by Vijay Kumar
  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, along with Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela (latter two being inspired by the former), were the three greatest moral personalities of the last century. The ethical resonance radiated through their lived lives  (...)

• Rabindranath Tagore and the need for civilisational dialogue | Archishman Raju

  5 October
  In a letter to Rabindranath Tagore in anticipation of his visit to China, the Chinese poet Xu Zhimo wrote “Your influence suggests the very return of spring: as sudden and as marvelous. Our youths, newly emancipated, like the tender buds on the  (...)

• 2024 Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections: Will Emotional Campaigning and Populist Promises Pave the Road to Stability | Adfer Rashid Shah

  5 October
  The Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections-2024 mark a transformative moment for the region’s political landscape. These elections are the first since the revocation of the special status of J&K (article 370) in 2019. With three phases of polling  (...)

• Church and Muslims in Kerala: Dialogue essential between believers in God’s own country | John Dayal

  5 October, by John Dayal
  October 1, 2024
  With some prayer and a lot of negotiation, it is hoped that some 600 families of fishermen – 450 of them Christian, the rest Hindu – will not be dispossessed of their homes in the Munambam - Kadapuram area in Pallipuram panchayat  (...)

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