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  India-China Face-off

  22 July
  POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
  As we go to press, the result of the presidential contest has been announced. Ram Nath Kovind, the BJP candidate and NDA nominee, has predictably won with 65.65 per cent votes. He thus becomes the country’s second Dalit  (...)

• Pilgrim’s Progress

  22 July, by Kuldip Nayar
  When terrorists attack from the front, it means that they are not afraid of the conse-quences. The story of counterattack to kill seven pilgrims, returning from the Amarnath Yatra in Kashmir, is somewhat similar. The Lashkar-e-Toiba did not  (...)

• Improving the Quality of Education Still not a Priority for UP Government

  22 July, by Sandeep Pandey
  In UP the Chief Minister has launched a campaign to get children enrolled into schools and linked it to a tree plantation drive. He has also distributed dress, socks, shoes, school bags, free books to encourage children to go to school. Every  (...)

• Protest against Mob Lynchings and the Role of Civil Society in Breaking the Silence

  22 July
  by Aurobindo Ghose
  A fifteen-year old boy was lynched to death in a train by a mob, when he was returning home with his relatives, on the evening of Thursday, June 22, after doing his Eid shopping in Delhi. The mob threw his body at Asaoti  (...)

• Did Ambedkar Appreciate Puri’s Jagannath?

  22 July, by A K Biswas
  The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi’s address to the countrymen styled as ‘Mann ki Baat’ broadcast at 11:28 IST by the All India Radio on June 25, 2017 noted that:
  “Those who have studied Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar should have seen that Lord  (...)

• In Defence of Prof G.N. Saibaba: Letter to Ram Lal Anand College Governing Body

  22 July
  To
  The Chairperson, Governing Body, Ram Lal Anand College,
  University of Delhi
  June 14, 2017
  Subject: Appeal against disciplinary action and termination of services of Professor GN Saibaba
  Dear Sir,
  We, the undersigned, current and past teachers  (...)

• Against the Concept of Kashmiriyat

  22 July, by Humra Quraishi
  MUSINGS
  The attack on Amarnath yatra pilgrims, killing seven (the figure has since risen to eight) and injuring several, is not just extremely tragic and shocking, but totally against the very concept of Kashmiriyat. Its hard, if not impossible,  (...)

• Majoritarian Will vis-à-vis Constitutional Supremacy

  22 July
  by Vijay Kumar
  The happenings of the past few weeks, particularly indiscriminate ban on slaughter-houses and formation of anti-Romeo squads, ostensibly for insulating the young girls from eve-teasing but, in reality, unleashing crusade against  (...)

• Russia, Belt and Road, and the ‘Big Picture’

  22 July, by M K Bhadrakumar
  The following article was written sometime back but could not be used earlier due to unavoidable reasons.
  Russia has not been a significant beneficiary so far of the Chinese honeypot known as the Belt and Road Initiative—although there is vast  (...)

• MGNREGA Workers Need and Deserve Better Wages

  22 July, by Bharat Dogra
  The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was enacted to ensure economic security to those most deprived of it by providing them a guarantee of employment close to their home. However, the real life experience of many  (...)

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