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• Link Whole Sale Price Index to Increase Crop MSPs | Soma Marla

  22 June 2024, by Soma S. Marla

  Union Cabinet in it’s first meeting of NDA 3.0 has announced new support (MSP) for 14 crops. The hike is very minimal and ranged between 5 to 7 percentage (except for Niger and Ragi) and does not reflect the increased cost of cultivation. Severe losses suffered by BJP in recent fortunes in northern rural heartland indicate that the ruling party is fast loosing ground among farming community due to its anti famer policies.
  For example, the MSP of paddy, the main kharif (…)

• Nitish, Naidu’s transactional concerns take precedence over any socio-political issues | Faraz Ahmad

  22 June 2024, by Faraz Ahmad

  It was the year 1993. Months after the demolition of Babri Masjid the P.V. Narasimha Rao government had barely scraped through, defeating the no confidence motion by bribing a couple of Janata Dal and Jharkhand embers. It was moved by the entire Opposition from Left to Right spearheaded by former Prime Minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh
  This was the aftermath of the demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya under the watchful eyes of the then BJP president L.K. Advani. A month before that on (…)

• The War is Waged in The Parliament, Not in Wayanad — CPI’s Opposition to Priyanka Gandhi’s Candidature is Foolish | Ajayakumar Kodoth

  22 June 2024, by Ajayakumar Kodoth

  Priyanka Gandhi is coming to Wayanad for a political contest, as Rahul Gandhi makes way for her. An appropriate decision, whichever way you look at it. Not that there are no eligible candidates in Kerala. But a strong opposition needs to be mounted by the Congress in the Parliament against the Fascist organization called the BJP. It is imperative that an eligible leader who is now outside the Parliament enters it in order to serve the interests of secular democracy in India in the (…)

• From Resistance to Representation: The Journey of Women’s Reservation in Nagaland | Bomito V Kinimi and K Gireesan

  22 June 2024

  The recent passage of The Nagaland Municipal Bill, 2023 in Nagaland, which provides 33% reservation for women in Urban Local Governments (ULG), signifies a substantial shift in gender perspectives in the state. By ensuring women’s representation in municipal elections, the bill addresses longstanding gender disparities and promotes inclusive governance. Women’s increased visibility and participation in leadership roles can inspire future generations, promoting a more egalitarian and (…)

• India’s First Metadata case: Why No to Bio-Political Tattooing through Aadhaar Number Online Database? Part 7 | Gopal Krishna

  22 June 2024, by Gopal Krishna

  If you think IT is the solution to your problem, then you don’t understand IT, and you don’t understand your problem either.
  — Roger Needham, a noted computer scientist
  If the constitution of a state is democratic, then every exceptional negation of democratic principles, every exercise of state power independent of the approval of the majority, can be called dictatorship.
  — Carl Schmitt, the Nazi philosopher in his essay ’On Dictatorship’ (1921)
  इंडी गठबंधन वाले जब ईवी

• Modi has to learn a lot from Vajpayee and Advani | Faraz Ahmad

  22 June 2024, by Faraz Ahmad

  July 6, 2024
  Prime Minister Narendra Modi is never known for according respect to institutions and institutional representatives whatever status the Constitution may accord them.
  Therefore, when he surpassed his past record in coarseness and crassness, targeting Rahul Gandhi, the first Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha after a gap of 10 years, while replying to the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address in the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha, it embarrassed and shamed even (…)

• Controversy at Kolkata’s ICAI International Conference | S.G.Vombatkere

  22 June 2024, by S G Vombatkere

  If an individual wishes to avoid contact with persons of the female gender, he is at liberty to do so, in his personal, private spaces. However, such a person insisting that girls and women should be banished from his vicinity or field of vision in a public place, is to insist upon gender segregation. It would show gender discrimination, and denial of equality of status and of opportunity to women, and perhaps even misogyny. Sadly, this is what happened recently in an international space. (…)

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  Citizen’s Statement and Appeal for Action Against Rising Hate Speeches and Violent Crimes Against Minorities (July 1, 2024)

  22 June 2024

  Issued on this the July 1, 2024.
  We, the people of India, condemn the alarming increase in Hate Crimes against minorities, which have worryingly increased post the results of the recently concluded general election!
  Although the clear verdict by the Indian electorate was against polarisation and the divisive campaign of hate, the ruling NDA refuses to learn its lessons. BJP leaders have loudly blamed the minority community for their defeat, such targeting of minority communities has (…)

• Heat Wave Has Increased Awareness of the Urgency of Water Conservation Efforts | Bharat Dogra

  22 June 2024, by Bharat Dogra

  As heat waves intensified over a vast part of the country, Niwari district of Madhya Pradesh was repeatedly found to be among the more severely affected parts of the country. Amidst the increasing difficulties of the people here the only saving grace that people were increasingly discussing the urgency of the task of water conservation.
  The ravages of global warming apart, a part of the credit should also go to the water conservation and sanitation volunteers called Jal Sahelis. Linked (…)

• Mechanization of popularity: Deciphering Nancy Tyagi’s virality on the internet | Twinkle Siwach & Mehak Dua

  22 June 2024

  This essay looks at the phenomenon of virality on the internet by mapping Nancy Tyagi’s recent journey to fame. It takes a concentrated look at her social media presence and her journey as an influencer over a short time span to analyse whether such stories reflect a case of organic virality or that of a mechanised production of popularity that makes influencers like her achieve a level of stardom akin to that of a celebrity.
  The phenomenon of virality, that is, large scale diffusion and (…)