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• Challenges To Democracy In India: Insights of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar |

  4 January 2025

  Living in a democracy seems to be a dream of every one world over. But keeping democracy a democracy has been of a greater challenge today than ever before. In India, the challenges to democracy are increasing both in terms of number and complexity, with the emerging overt political patronage to India

• Liberal democracy shrinks in India, Turkey and the US | Rahul Mukherji, Berk Esen

  4 January 2025

  December 23, 2024
  Autocratisation has no relationship with the per capita income of a country. Political ideas matter
  The elections in India, Turkey and the US in 2024 point to the rapidly shrinking liberal political space in democracies.
  Despite the enormity of the threat to a secular and inclusive vision of politics, the elections in India and Turkey, however, suggest that possibilities of liberal resilience do exist. The US, however, has failed the resilience test.
  Opposition (…)

• Unpacking the negative role played by communal forces during the Hindu Code Bill episode of 1940s-50s | Bhavuk

  4 January 2025

  The recent fracas in the Parliament over the remarks made by Home Minister Amit Shah, on Nehru’s reaction to Ambedkar’s resignation over the Hindu code bill has sparked a debate in the public sphere. However, the entire issue remains shrouded in layers which form the basis of any truth. Apart from the fact that Ambedkar believed Nehru to be the most sincere among all Congressmen on the question of Hindu Code Bill, the fact also remains that the RSS opposed it tooth and nail. The home (…)

• The changing face of employment in the 21st century | Upal Chakraborty

  4 January 2025, by Upal Chakraborty

  There are developments in the global economy where established, time-tested models are going for a toss and right inside the heart of global capitalism

• Who killed Judge Loya? | Suresh Khairnar

  4 January 2025, by Suresh Khairnar

  Perhaps in my reading list of books, this will have to be included in the most surprising book of the year 2024. That is why in the state level program of West Bengal NAPM, when I was specially asked to speak as the keynote speaker, I first tried to say this book and what kind of people have India in their hands in the present times and freeing it should be our first goal. Who can do what in the intoxication of power? This is what one feels after reading this book. And how all the (…)

• Are You Dreaming Of A White Christmas? | Sagari Chhabra

  4 January 2025, by Sagari Chhabra

  Are you dreaming of a white Christmas;
  the singing of carols
  and the Christmas tree,
  draped in mistletoe
  with gifts strung in golden filigree?
  Are you dreaming of a white Christmas;
  yonder, children lie listless,
  with vacant eyes,
  wondering what ahead, still lies;
  whatever happened to mom and dad;
  nothing you can do
  can make them less sad.
  The bullets, tanks and drones
  rain on relentlessly;
  in this age we thought
  there would be no war,
  but this horror,
  even our glazed (…)

• Interlinking Rivers: The story from scratch | S.G.Vombatkere

  4 January 2025, by S G Vombatkere

  The interlinking of rivers (ILR) is ill-conceived, ruinously expensive, technically questionable, ecologically devastating, and socially disruptive. Here

• Municipal Socialism | Petr Kropotkin

  4 January 2025

  (The essay below by Petr Kropotkin first appeared in Freedom 172, December 1902)
  In the early beginnings of Freedom, some sixteen years ago, there was in our paper an article, entitled

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  IMSD opposes calls for a ban on Satanic Verses

  4 January 2025

  December 30, 2024
  Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) does not support the call by certain Muslim organisations for a re-ban on Salman Rushdie

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  Amit Shah

  4 January 2025

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