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• Coming Elections & Hurdles for the Opposition / Vyjayantimala Bali | Humra Quraishi

  3 February 2024, by Humra Quraishi

  1 February 2024
  Will there be any Opposition left before the general elections? The way hurdle after hurdle gets thrown in, in the Rahul Gandhi led Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, carry definite pointers that there are efforts on to sabotage the Yatra. Though Rahul Gandhi seems determined to carry on against all possible risks and threats, but the big question that looms large is this: Why is the Right-Wing government so very rattled to see the masses participating in the Yatra and doing so, so (…)

• An Essay Concerning the Complete Collapse of the I.N.D.I. A. Alliance with Extremely Well Crafted Arguments Combined with the Logical Methodology of Scientific Induction and Deduction and Careful Fact Checking that Involves Observation, Understanding and Reason

  3 February 2024

  by Murzban Jal
  It is obvious isn’t it?
  After all, in Cervantes’ epic, Don Quixote desperately needed his Sancho Panza to herald the lost age of feudal chivalry, but here we have only the multiple Dons sans their Sanchos and worse the Dons who have not heard from a wise man who quoted a verse from Dante’s The Divine Comedy thus:
  Here all distrust must be left;
  All cowardice must here be dead.

• Leprosy in India: Difficult Road Ahead | T. Vijayendra

  3 February 2024, by T. Vijayendra

  Introduction
  January 30 is observed as World Leprosy Day. To a common man leprosy is repulsive. The site of poor beggars in rags having deformities makes people turn their back with horror. Some hastily throw some coins without looking at them. If you happen to go near their settlements in some hidden corners of the city, the site is equally disheartening.
  However, leprosy is one of the least infectious diseases as nearly everyone has some measure of natural resistance against it. India (…)

• Stubble Burning: Climate Concerns and Policy Paths | S N Tripathy

  3 February 2024, by S N Tripathy

  There has been a growing consensus within society that a formidable sustainability challenge with potentially catastrophic consequences is being confronted (Kiron et al., 2012; World Watch Institute, 2013). Both human societies and natural ecosystems are grappling with far-reaching, systemic predicaments, including climate change, species extinction, deforestation, and desertification. Human activities are intensifying the impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems on a global scale. The United (…)

• Pakistan readies itself for an orchestrated election | Bharat Bhushan

  3 February 2024, by Bharat Bhushan

  February 4, 2024
  The Pakistan Army manipulates the election process to get a friendly government in place.
  Pakistan, undergoing a dire economic crisis, will hold its national election on February 8.
  The election process is being choreographed by the Pakistan Army through a caretaker government. It has weakened democratic institutions to such an extent that it continues to influence policy even when not directly in power.
  This general election will be no exception.
  The previously (…)

• Televised Devotees and Live Steaming of Devotion | Bhabani Shankar Nayak

  3 February 2024

  Once upon a time, devotion used to be a private affair for the devotees. It was an unbreakable spiritual bond and a personal religious experience between gods, goddesses, and their followers. It was neither televised nor live streamed to project propaganda, power, and dominance of one religious practice over another. The private and public practice of religious customs and traditions used to be solitary affairs for individuals and communities. The celebration of religious festivals used to (…)

• India’s 2024 elections may bring a new political epoch | Robin Jeffrey

  3 February 2024

  21 January 2024
  For Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its mentors in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Hindu supremacist civil society organisation, 2024 could be an epoch-making year.
  People and supporters of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrate the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft’s landing on the moon at an event organised near India Gate in New Delhi, India, 23 August 2023 (Photo: Reuters/Anushree Fadnavis).
  As 2023 ended, (…)

• Palestinians have a right to self defence | Venkatesh Narayanan and Sandeep Pandey

  3 February 2024, by Sandeep Pandey

  After having pounded Gaza for over three months killing more than 26,000 Palestinians, during the course of which Israel also attacked Children’s hospitals and refugee camps in West Bank, on the pretext of flushing out Hamas fighters from there, Israel, with the help of its western allies, is doing the most unthinkable thing – trying to stop the humanitarian help to the beleaguered citizens of Gaza reaching through United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near (…)

• Gaza and Genocide | Mukul Kesavan

  3 February 2024

  The order of the International Court of Justice is a root-and-branch rejection of the Western consensus that Israel has no case to answer for the devastation it has caused in the Gaza Strip
  Mukul Kesavan
  January 28, 2024
  The order of the International Court of Justice on South Africa’s request for provisional measures to prevent genocide in the Gaza Strip is, in the words of The Economist, a “stinging rebuke” to Israel. It’s more than that; it is a root-and-branch rejection of the (…)

• Germany’s rude political awakening | James Angelos

  3 February 2024

  The country’s domestic politics are becoming dysfunctional just when Berlin’s leadership on the world stage may be needed most.
  by James Angelos
  Germans have long considered the blandness of their politics to be a virtue.
  Chancellor Olaf Scholz, a man whose seeming automation earned him the sobriquet “Scholzomat,” was voted into office on an unspoken promise to keep German politics boring. He depicted himself as a guarantor of stability and as the natural heir to his predecessor, (…)