Mainstream WeeklyThese days, if an option is put to Muslims to choose between security and reservation in government contracts, what may be their choice? Most probably, safety and security would be preferred first, not the reservation. Parliamentary Affair Minister Kiren Rijiju while slamming the Congress party over the issue of Muslim reservation in Karnataka in the Parliament at the same time the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), under heavy police security and drone surveillance, demolished the home (…)
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Do Muslims Need Reservations? | Ishrat Husain
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As Highway Expansion Escalates, Will India Learn from Past Mistakes to take Corrective Steps? | Bharat Dogra
20 April 2025, by Bharat DograOn April 13, India
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The Elderly Facing Repercussions from Disability: Age is Not Just a Number | Harpreet Kaur
20 April 2025Ageing is a biological phenomenon that potentially brings variety of cellular, physical and mental changes over the time. It is a complex multi-factorial process, where several factors may interact simultaneously. Age
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Informal Employment In India Remains Close To 90 Per Cent Since 2014 | Gyan Pathak
20 April 2025Saturday, April 19, 2025
by Dr. Gyan Pathak
Informal employment in the total employment in India remains almost stagnant at around 90 per cent since 2014, according to a latest ILO report. It was worse in 2024 than the global average of 58 per cent, Asia Pacific average of 66 per cent, and worse than neighbouring countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
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Re-Thinking World Order: Bringing Humanitarian Law Closer To Morality | Sunita Samal
20 April 2025, by Sunita SamalAbstract
The Cold war saw not only the struggle between East and West but also within the United Nations Security Council. Here, the Soviet Union and United States of America had their actions frozen by their reciprocal veto power. Since the end of Cold War in 1990s, most international attention has been focused on the use of force outside the parameters of the United Nations Charter. While attempts have been made to justify actions in Kosovo and Iraq based on evolving customary norms of (…) -
International Law At Vanishing Point | Vijay Kumar
20 April 2025, by Vijay KumarNotwithstanding the retreat by Trump, the full-blown trade war between two economic powerhouses, the USA and China, would go on, and it would be extremely hazardous to predict the outcome. The overwhelming majority of economics mavens, however, concur that there would be no winner in this chaotic and insane trade war, and the question is which country would suffer most. This writer, being not an economist, will refrain from commenting on economic fallouts except quoting the perceptive and (…)
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Bangladesh: Mob violence — Causes, consequences, and pathways to justice | Zakir Kibria
20 April 2025April 11, 2025
On August 5, 2024, Bangladesh witnessed a seismic political shift with the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina following months of youth-led protests. However, the hope for democratic renewal has been overshadowed by an unprecedented wave of "mob violence." Between August 2024 and March 2025, vigilante attacks claimed 119 lives and injured 74 individuals, while 2024 alone recorded 179 deaths -
Vargas Llosa loved and loathed Castro
20 April 2025, by Ash Narain RoyThe death of Peruvian writer, journalist, essayist and politician and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa marks the end of a golden age of Latin American literature. With his demise the Latin American boon has faded. As Angel Esteban del Campo of University of Granada, Spain, writes,
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Incandescent novelist, seizure doctrine: The two Mario Vargas Llosa | Ignacio Ramonet
20 April 2025LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE, November 2010
Last October 7, the Swedish Academy announced that it was awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 to the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. This exquisite novelist was long on the list of "Nobelizables". But his constant militant commitment to ultraliberal ideology had ruled him out until today. Indeed, by the will of Alfred Nobel, not only the literary work of the award-winning author must have "brought eminent services to humanity" but the writer (…) -
Beyond the Fences: A Rationale for Cohesive Development | Sanjoy De, Atanu Sengupta
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Birth of an Alternative Development Paradigm: Unfolding of Transformative Mode of Production
by Sunil Ray
Germinal Publications Pvt. Ltd. (Publisher of frontier weekly)
2024. 250 INR.
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Development is the buzzword of today. Everybody speaks of it as if it is the only religion and pursuit of the modern day. In his populist book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari (2015) argued that the ability of man to (…)