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In My Own Voice: The Great Migration
6 June 2020, by Sagari ChhabraBy now all of us have broken our hearts and moved between rage and despair at the merciless way in which our people are walking for miles back to their villages without adequate food, water or shelter. The two year old child pulling the sheet (...) -
Draft National Education Policy 2019 needs fine-tuning | Gull Mohammad Wani
6 June 2020by Prof Gull Mohammad Wani
The draft National Education Policy 2019 (henceforth DNEP) with Dr Kasturirangan as its chairman was placed in public domain for wider discussion by different stakeholders. The Covid-19 has meanwhile thrown new (...) -
A Tale of Two Credit Agencies! | L. K. Sharma
6 June 2020by L. K. Sharma
Moody’s “spoils Modi’s historic day”, a daily screams. Moody’s pricks the Modi government’s balloon by downgrading India’s foreign currency and local currency long-term issuer ratings from Baa2 to Baa3 — the lowest rung in its (...) -
Table of Contents - Lockdown Edition no10 | 30 May 2020
2 June 2020Contents Mainstream Weekly, May 30, 2020
LETTER TO THE READERS - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition no.10 Government’s Package is Not What is Immediately Needed; Arun Kumar PM’s financial package took Indians for a huge ride and committed a (...) -
LETTER TO THE READERS - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition no.10
30 May 2020Today is May 30, 2020. A year ago Narendra Modi Government returned to power with a lot of fanfare. Today the PM, and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, have, while recalling the past year, sought to blow their trumpets in two major national dailies (...) -
Government’s Package is Not What is Immediately Needed
30 May 2020, by Arun KumarIndian Society is in a crisis is an understatement; it is in dire straits. Millions are migrating from cities to their villages in extreme conditions and many have died on the way. The health situation brought about by COVID-19 is not under (...) -
PM’s financiaI package took Indians for a huge ride and committed a statistical fraud
30 May 2020A monumental fraud was pulled off when PM claimed in his televised address that an extra 10 per cent of the GDP would be spent to overcome the crisis induced by the pandemic and the lockdown
by Dipankar Bhattacharya
While preaching his gospel of (...) -
Feel a little shame for the lost soul of a nation | Avay Shukla
30 May 2020The Lock Down Diaries —VIII
View from [Greater] Kailash, Thursday, 21 May 2020
by Avay Shukla IAS
This is not about the sorry exodus of millions of our more unfortunate brothers and sisters playing out on prime TV these days. It is not a piece (...) -
Deconstructing Telinipara Violence in West Bengal
30 May 2020, by Arup Kumar SenWhile the public attention is focused on the spread of the coronavirus, Telinipara, a locality in the Bhadreswar town of Hooghly district in West Bengal, witnessed anti-Muslim communal violence.
Reportedly, a small inter-community squabble broke (...) -
Celebrating the Goa Statehood Day
30 May 2020, by Eduardo FaleiroOn May 30 we celebrate the Goa Statehood Day. Goa was liberated from the colonial rule in December 1961. After Liberation a major controversy arose as to whether it should remain a separate territory or should merge into a neighbouring State, (...)
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