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• Azaadi and where do we go from here? | Sagari Chhabra

  17 August 2024, by Sagari Chhabra

  As we celebrate 77 years of freedom and head towards our 78th Independence day on 15th August 2024 my mind flashes back and remembers all the freedom fighters I have met and recorded over the years. I met Kannusamy, at his modest residence at Prai in Malaysia, who was with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army. I asked him that since he had been born and raised in Malaysia and had never set foot on Indian soil what motivated him to join the freedom struggle for India? He lost (…)

• A new model of employment creation in rural India | Sunil Ray

  17 August 2024, by Sunil Ray

  The question is: How to create productive and sustainable employment opportunities in rural India? I am here putting the question straight because I am yet to see any significant measure available to resolve the crisis of uninterrupted growth of unemployment particularly in rural India. Hardly any attempt is made to look beyond what is being suggested or implemented traditionally for decades. No worthwhile outcome the rural economy is left with as a result. The academic community is (…)

• Haryana Government’s Exploitative Temporary Employment Policy as Hidden Cruelty against Unemployed Youth | Som Nath & M.M. Goel

  17 August 2024

  In the diverse nation of India including Haryana, where the principles of socio-economic justice and equal opportunities are enshrined in the constitution, the reality for many young job seekers paints a starkly different picture. The government’s increasing reliance on part-time, temporary, and contractual employment for its workforce is not only an economic issue but a matter of ethical concern, amounting to what can be described as cruelty against the unemployed youth. The Haryana (…)

• Unheard Voices of Autonomous Colleges | Justine George & Savitha K.S

  17 August 2024

  Keywords: Autonomous College, NEP 2020, University Grants Commission Most affiliated colleges in India are now in a dilemma to seek autonomy status or continue their affiliation with a university when UGC relaxed the application norm in April 2023. The condition was reduced to a minimum of A Grade accreditation by NAAC or NBA accreditation for at least three programmes alongside a minimum of 10 years of existence. There has been an unprecedented increase in applications to get autonomous (…)

• Algorithm of July Rebellion in Bangladesh: Not Armageddon but A Protracted Struggle Unfolds | Gouri Sankar Nag

  17 August 2024

  Just prior to monsoon in 2024, Bangladesh found itself on the brink of a significant crisis as widespread protests erupted in June, primarily driven by students pouring out in umpteen numbers in opposition to the government’s quota system for public sector jobs. This system traditionally favoured the descendants of those who fought in the country’s liberation war in 1970-71. Although the movement began with the agenda of Gen Z of Bangladeshi society viewing such job reservation policy as an (…)

• India Must Wake Up to A Destabilizing South Asia | Nandita Chaturvedi

  17 August 2024

  The sudden ousting of Sheikh Hasina from power in Bangladesh has been shocking news to much of the third world. For the past few years, the stability and economic progress in Bangladesh had been lauded by economists and political theorists in India and elsewhere. Bangladesh was held up as a model for growth and poverty removal in South Asia. The nation had joined the Belt and Road initiative, entering into a fruitful relationship with China, while maintaining their trade relationships with (…)

• Riots in UK: Bias of “White-Ego” Against Non-Whites! | Nilofar Suhrawardy

  17 August 2024, by Nilofar Suhrawardy

  Fake news about the criminal’s identity is said to be responsible for riots in United Kingdom targeting minorities and people of colour. Yes, this refers to murder of three young girls at a dance event in Southport on July 29 by a British citizen of Rwandan origin, a Christian by birth. Initially, his identity was not revealed but reportedly “news” spread about his being a Muslim leading to riots. The concerned authorities disclosed his identity to check this unrest. However, racial riots (…)

• If a wider war in Middle-East actually starts, will it be bigger than is commonly believed? | Bharat Dogra

  17 August 2024, by Bharat Dogra

  Urgency of stepping up peace efforts immediately by the UNO and others
  For quite some time, there has been much discussion on the possibilities of a wider war breaking out in the already deeply troubled Middle East region. If this actually happens, this would be tragic beyond words and its costs in terms of the loss of human lives, displacement and mass distress will be intolerably high. Hence at the outset it should be stated that the maximum efforts should be made now to prevent such a (…)

• The roots of the UK’s unrest lie in the warping of genuine working-class grievances | Kenan Malik

  17 August 2024

  Mainstream politicians have legitimised the far right to rebrand racism as white identity
  “The British soul is awakening and stirring with rage at what these people are doing,” the Spectator’s Douglas Murray told former Australian deputy prime minister John Anderson. The comment might sound like a response to the recent riots, but was actually recorded last year (the edited clip of the old interview was uploaded on Anderson’s website last week, but has since been taken down).
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  Motivated Attempt To Denigrate The Constitution | Vijay Kumar

  17 August 2024, by Vijay Kumar

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  The colonial constitution by Arghya Sengupta has come at a time when talks for the new Constitution are being floated in certain quarters, especially by those perceived to be close to the present ruling dispensation.
  The Constitution of India was the outcome of intense deliberations by the framers of the Constituent Assembly, on the one hand, (…)