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  Sitaram Yechury and non-sectarian leftwing politics | Pritam Singh

  5 October 2024, by Pritam Singh

  One image and an idea that prominently comes to mind when considering paying tribute to Sitaram Yechury are non-sectarian ways of conducting politics. Politics in India, especially in the last few years, has become so polarised that the idea of non-sectarian politics appears odd; precisely because of that, it is alluring as an imagination. His premature death when Indian politics and society needed more than ever to respect divergent views, traditions, and cultures is not only a loss to (…)

• Lateral Entry in Civil Services

  5 October 2024, by Jos Chathukulam

  The practice of bringing domain experts into the government is not new to India. It is a fact that lateral entry could bring in fresh ideas, energy, talents, and diverse experiences into the bureaucracy that will augment the state capacities to meet the complex tasks and diverse challenges of governance and development. Lateral entry shall be visualised for gap filling, supplementing, and value addition to the system for a shorter period, rather than supplanting the top management in the (…)

• Remembering Gandhi In War-Ravaged And Polarized Time | Vijay Kumar

  5 October 2024, by Vijay Kumar

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, along with Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela (latter two being inspired by the former), were the three greatest moral personalities of the last century. The ethical resonance radiated through their lived lives has hardly any parallel, and there is no one at the present turbulent time, who comes anywhere near them.
  The famous quote of American poet and philosopher, Walt Whitman, that

• Rabindranath Tagore and the need for civilisational dialogue | Archishman Raju

  5 October 2024

  In a letter to Rabindranath Tagore in anticipation of his visit to China, the Chinese poet Xu Zhimo wrote

• 2024 Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections: Will Emotional Campaigning and Populist Promises Pave the Road to Stability | Adfer Rashid Shah

  5 October 2024

  The Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections-2024 mark a transformative moment for the region

• Church and Muslims in Kerala: Dialogue essential between believers in God

  5 October 2024, by John Dayal

  October 1, 2024
  With some prayer and a lot of negotiation, it is hoped that some 600 families of fishermen

• Ahimsa

  5 October 2024

  Shalom Netanyahu!
  You want to tell the world,

• Are women being pushed back indoors? | CR Annapurna

  5 October 2024

  There is an undercurrent of activism sweeping across India that is trying to push women back indoors. This patriarchal philosophy is targeting working women from various backgrounds to ensure that all their efforts in coming out of the clutches of orthodox compulsions are undermined by scuttling of the education and job prospects of young women across the country and denying them any bright future.
  THE RECENT CASES of sexual harassment including rape, followed by gruesome murder of the (…)

• West Bengal: How to protect the junior doctors and also to check threat the health care system is facing from them | Arun Srivastava

  5 October 2024

  This is for the first time in its 74 years of existence that the dominion and status of the Supreme Court has been questioned by The West Bengal Junior Doctors

• Understanding the Primitive State and Contradictory Narratives of India | Ajay Kumar Mishra

  5 October 2024, by Ajay Kumar Mishra

  Abstract
  Recognizing and accommodating contradictory narratives within Indian Nationhood is crucial for fostering unity and progress. This essay explores the discourse on anti-nationalism in India through the lens of conflicting narratives. It scrutinizes the state’s prominence against the backdrop of state-individual dichotomies. The analysis of the government’s monopolization over the state seeks to unravel the labelling of pro-regime as national and anti-regime as anti-national. It (…)