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• Do Women Really have a Reproductive Choice?

  9 December
  WOMEN’S WORLD
  by Ramneet Kaur
  When we refer to the concept of reproductive choice, it means women’s right, control and choice over their reproductive abilities. The right to decide whether they want to have a child or not, the control over their  (...)

• Why Let Religion Destroy India?

  9 December, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS
  What’s happening to our country? A huge and diverse land of 135 million people, 29 States and 22 scheduled languages, yet we are caught in a single obsession—religion. All discussions, all decisions, all policies are shaped by  (...)
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  Black and White

  2 December, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  Last week African nationals staying in the Capital were subjected to wanton attack once again. According to reports, two Tanzanian women and two Nigerian men were hounded by a mob in the wake of rumours that they had kidnapped a local  (...)

• Inclusive Development: Relevance of Socio-Political Factors

  2 December, by C.H. Hanumantha Rao
  Rising inequalities in wealth and income lead to unequal access to power, status and influence. Democracies may be less prone to such state capture than dictatorships but even democracies have proved to be vulnerable to pressures from the  (...)

• Statues and People: Saving River Kaveri

  2 December, by S G Vombatkere
  There is public opposition to the Government of Karnataka (GoK)’s proposal to construct a 125-ft high statue of Mother Kaveri in the immediate vicinity of the iconic Krishna-rajasagar (KRS) dam, along with some other constructions including a  (...)

• Unchallenged Hegemony of BJP

  2 December
  by Vijay Kumar
  Ever since the Gujarat Assembly elections held in December 2017, the Congress party under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi has been on the resurgence. The Congress missed the formation of the government in Gujarat, the home State of  (...)

• Quest for the Lost Dignity

  2 December
  by Sardar Amjad Ali
  The Indian National Congress, a party of distinction and heritage, fought the battle of liberation of India from the foreign yoke of 200 long years. With a heritage of Gandhi-Nehru-Indira’s association, the party, since 2014,  (...)

• Voice of Dissent: When Art becomes Anti-National

  2 December
  by Ram Puniyani
  Banning of books, opposing cricket teams and singers from Pakistan are not very new in India. We had seen the banning of the Satanic Verses, digging of the cricket pitch in Wankhede Stadium of Mumbai to oppose the Indo-Pak match,  (...)

• Indian Constitutional Courts and Secularism — I

  2 December
  by Irfan Engineer
  This is a two-part article. This is the first part. The second and concluding part will be carried in the following week’s issue of Mainstream dated December 8, 2018.
  Traditions and customs are being used to redefine and redraw  (...)

• On P.N. Haksar’s twentieth death anniversary

  2 December
  November 27 this year marks the twentieth death anniversary of P.N. Haksar, the eminent administrator and distinguished diplomat as well as one of the country’s foremost thinkers. He was the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, Deputy  (...)

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