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• Sambhal, Ajmer Sharif & the spreading communal virus | Humra Quraishi

  7 December 2024, by Humra Quraishi

  5 December 2024
  Human Rights Day, 10 December, is almost here but is there any relevance left to this day! Humans and their basic rights have been reduced to a nothingness of sorts. There is a genocide on, in and around Gaza, where the hapless Palestinians are so very brutally and blatantly killed by the Israeli forces. There

• Anthropology beats economics: How people in flood-prone region help each other: The Case study of Odisha | Radhakanta Barik

  7 December 2024, by Radhakanta Barik

  Wondering at by looking at the poor people in a flood prone Island of Cuttack district survived with difficulties and worked for making their children educated. This helped their children to get educated who got the jobs in the state sector. This brought them out of poverty trap and debt trap forever.
  Key words: kinship, fictive kinship, clan and education
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  Introduction:
  Involvement of peasantry in the national movement made them aware of value of education. The state like (…)

• Indian women decry

  7 December 2024, by John Dayal

  December 7, 2024
  Bhagwat’s 3 child norm
  Indian women, still deemed politically passive, have taken the lead in shooting down an advisory form the ruling party

• Back door entry of repelled Farm laws through New Agricultural Market Policy | Soma Marla

  7 December 2024, by Soma S. Marla

  December 17, 2024
  Recently the Union agricultural ministry has circulated a new draft agricultural market policy framework on agricultural marketing. Union agricultural additional secretary Mr. Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, is also committee proposed a draft marketing framework to totally revamp the existing heading a committee appointed by ministry earlier this year. According to the government proposed universal ( one tax) tax on agricultural produce across the country is aimed at (…)

• 498-A IPC (85 BNS) must become gender neutral to prevent abuse |

  7 December 2024, by N. Vidya

• Overseas territories boost the might of France, yet it neglects the welfare of their people | Bharat Dogra

  7 December 2024, by Bharat Dogra

  December 17, 2024
  The recent cyclone in Mayotte and the earlier violence in New Caledonia have drawn attention to the problems of people in

• Oh, My God! | J.L. Jawahar

  7 December 2024, by Jawarharlal Jasthi

  Prof. Jonathan is teaching cosmology in the university college. He is considered an authority on cosmology and respected in academic circles for his scholarship. He can easily explain the origin of the universe and its evolution into galaxies, stars and planets. He agrees that the big bang was the point of origin for the universe. He tells the students also to take it for granted that the universe started from the Big Bang. He still wants to know what it was that was subjected to the bang

• Where are we today? And where is the RSS? | Suresh Khairnar

  7 December 2024, by Suresh Khairnar

  Friends, I am not writing this post to show anyone down or up. I have been a soldier of Rashtriya Seva Dal since I was 12 years old. And counting, I was 20 years old. Till then (during the Emergency of 1973-1976, I had to resign due to going to jail!) I have been working as a full time worker of Rashtriya Seva Dal.
  And due to the current situation of the country, in which communal polarization has increased the most since the independence of our country, after a gap of forty years, I was (…)

• Forest Governance in Protected Areas: A Review of Laws and Practice |

  7 December 2024

  Abstract
  Decolonisation and democratisation of forest governance that was set in law through the Forest Rights Act in 2006, more than half a century after India

• RSS turning Bangladeshi Hindus noncitizens in their own motherland in its quest to project India as the Motherland of Hindus | Arun Srivastava

  7 December 2024

  Increasing support and the rise of the rightist and anti-democratic political forces in the Southeast Asian region has been a matter of concern. The rightist forces have been present in the Indian political structure, but it has gained strength and momentum with these forces getting roots in major Asia-Pacific countries like Japan, India, the Philippines, Thailand and Cambodia in recent years. Most of these countries have been known for their representative democracy. But in recent years a (…)