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• A Modern Indian Erotic Tale | Sumanta Banerjee

  11 May 2024, by Sumanta Banerjee

  Despite all its fulminations against Muslims and the Moghul rule, the Modi government has adopted one ancient royal Moghul institution - the harem, where the nawabs and aristocrats used to maintain their numerous begums and mistresses. In the Modi government’s harem, among the variety of lovers, the present nawab’s most favourites are the, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Election Commission (EC). They are good in bed, (…)

• Challenges of Language in Political Games | Sunita Samal

  11 May 2024, by Sunita Samal

  Abstract: Does limit of our world set by language? Is language only valued as a secular activity in political inter-course? Action becomes meaningful so far as it is given meaning by going through universalism. Universalism and order are the brainchild of modern Enlightenment which is very often challenged by constitutive outside. Post-modernism attacks universalism and argues that every text can be interpreted in various ways.
  Introduction:
  ‘I think according to words and not (…)

• Letter to PM Modi - investigate Adani, Ambani for corruption, black money & attempt to influence elections | Binoy Viswam, MP

  11 May 2024, by Binoy Viswam

  Binoy Viswam Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) 116, North Avenue New Delhi - 110 001 Mob: 9605766702 E-mail: binoyviswam55[at]gmail.com
  To, Respected Shri Narendra Modi ji,
  Date: 9th May, 2024
  Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, Government of India
  I write to you to bring your attention to a matter of urgent public importance regarding corruption, black money and the government’s stance on those accused of malpractices. It is fortunate that such matters are in your knowledge but (…)

• Has Modi Seen The Writing on the Wall? | JP Gadkari

  11 May 2024, by J P Gadkari

  If you constantly and repeatedly utter a lie it becomes truth. This is a historical truth and a practice adopted by those who generally have dictatorial ambitions. They practice it without bothering about the disastrous consequences at the end of the day.
  Since the campaign for Election 2024 started heating up and as the polling is completed in three of the seven phases, our Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi is out inventing more and more untruths, twisting and distorting facts and (…)

• Modi’s Electoral Power At Stake? | Nilofar Suhrawardy

  11 May 2024, by Nilofar Suhrawardy

  The greatest test these elections seem to spell is for the one who earlier never refrained from talking about his “56-inch chest” against whom his rivals bore no significance. Yes, this refers to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose political tone is no longer as confident as it was earlier this year and prior to preceding parliamentary elections, he won in 2014 and 2019. In fact, he had exuded confidence a few weeks ago while talking about his party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) returning to (…)

• 2024 General Election: The Battle of Stars is in Full Swing in the Industrial Belt of Bengal | Tirthankar Mitra

  11 May 2024

  Film actor Shatrughan Sinha and cricketer Kirti Azad are Trinamool’s candidates
  May 10, 2024
  Veterans of Trinamool Congress and BJP have locked horns in Burdwan-Durgapur-Asansol industrial belt of Bengal once the most go to place for a job seeking engineer or a manual labourer. A low voter turnout is not unlikely in these constituencies on May 13 -in the fourth phase of Lok Sabha elections in the state. After years of cohabiting in the neighbourhood of closed Public Sector Units (PSUs) (…)

• Paradoxes of Modi’s politics: the coming 2024 election | Radhakanta Barik

  11 May 2024, by Radhakanta Barik

  Political communication plays an important role in bridging a bond between a leader and the masses. In the 2024 election, one finds the leadership of Priyanka Gandhi who uses simple idioms to communicate with people. She brings the question of each life and its sufferings and then transforms their sufferings into political idioms where the crowd is keen on listening to her. She is able to put the ideology of the Congress party in simpler idioms. Rahul Gandhi is able to communicate party (…)

• PPP in Military Schools - Whether Modi Regime has Facilitated Insidious Militarisation of the Society? | Subhash Gatade

  11 May 2024, by Subhash Gatade

  “The Leader principle, the stress on militarism, the doctrine of racial-cultural superiority, ultra-nationalism infused with religious idealism, the use of symbols of past greatness, the emphasis on national solidarity, the exclusion of religious or ethnic minorities from the nation concept-—all these features of the RSS are highly reminiscent of fascist movements in Europe.” —-Donald Smith, India As a Secular State, Oxford University Press,1963
  Introduction
  ’It is time to impart (…)

• India’s Budget 2023–24: What Is in it for the People? | Neeraj Jain

  11 May 2024

  Part 1: Is India Becoming a $5 Trillion Economy Soon?
  In this three part series, we take a look at the economic situation in the country, in early 2024, in the context of the claims being made by the Modi Government regarding the state of the economy.
  In Part 1 of this article series, we take a look at the claims being made about India becoming a 5 trillion dollar economy within the next few years.
  The GDP Conundrum
  In 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi famously envisioned that India (…)

• Identifying and Assisting Karnataka’s Most Deprived Village Panchayats: Insights from Mission Antyodaya | Jos Chathukulam

  11 May 2024, by Jos Chathukulam

  Abstract
  Here an attempt has been made to identify the most deprived /most vulnerable Village Panchayats in the State of Karnataka and recommends special assistance to these Panchayats from the Fifth Karnataka State Finance Commission. It’s crucial to identify and support these areas to ensure equitable development across the state. How does the Fifth Karnataka State Finance Commission plan to provide special assistance to these Panchayats?
  Keywords: Karnataka, State Finance Commissions (…)