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• Lok Sabha Elections 2024: A Perspective for Opposition Unity | Prem Singh

  12 January 2024, by Prem Singh

  This article is the sequel to my three previous articles on this subject namely – ‘Relevance of the Third Front’ (May 2014), Lok Sabha Elections 2019: A Perspective for Opposition Unity – One’ (June 2018), ‘Lok Sabha Elections 2019: A Perspective for Opposition Unity – Two’ (April 2019). Apart from these, the article ‘Opposition alliance’s knots and Muslims’ (October 2018) can also be seen in this regard. Links to all the articles are given at the end.
  I was of the opinion that there (…)

• Understanding Rise of Communalism, Lynching and Social Suffering: A Way Forward | Swati Draik, Badre Alam Khan & Sumit Kumar Gupta

  12 January 2024, by Badre Alam Khan

  A two-day workshop conducted by Karwan-e-Mohabbat (karwa of love) on “Communal Violence, Lynching, and Social Suffering and Justice” was held on December 17 and 18, 2023. The workshop, held at Adhchini, Delhi, covered a spectrum of themes including communal violence, the rising threat of majoritarian politics, hate crimes, legal justice, lynching, and the role of the judiciary, state, and wider civil society. The prominent speakers provided insightful and valuable knowledge on such issues. (…)

• An invisible killer hangs in the air of Asia’s cities | Karn Vohra

  12 January 2024

  January 7, 2024
  Air pollution deaths increase by 150,000 in rapidly growing South and Southeast Asian cities.
  Millions of people in cities in South and Southeast Asia face the threat of dying prematurely due to air pollution.
  Eighteen cities in Asia’s tropical region are growing fast and are expected to be home to more than 10 million people each by 2100.
  Most have limited to no routine ground monitoring of air pollution making it challenging to work out how bad the air has become (…)

• Food Crisis: The Agony of Sri Lankan People Continues | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  12 January 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

  More than a year after Sri Lanka plunged into an unprecedented economic crisis and uncertainty, a large mass of people in the island remain in the grip of painful poverty and resultant food insecurity.
  When the 2022 crisis came with high inflation, soaring prices of essential commodities and depleted foreign reserves, it led to more than quarter of the island’s estimated 21 million people becoming food insecure all of a sudden.
  According to the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and (…)

• India gets a rude awakening in West Asia | M. K. Bhadrakumar

  12 January 2024, by M K Bhadrakumar

  January 12, 2024
  From the standpoint of affirming ‘solidarity’ with the regime of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the October 7 attack, India has swung away to the far horizon and has unceremoniously dumped the US-Israeli axis, which provided beacon light to Delhi’s West Asian policies in the past few years.
  From a strategic asset, Israel connection is becoming a liability for the Indian government. Delhi spurned Netanyahu’s repeated entreaties to brand Hamas as a terrorist (…)

• South Africa’s Application at the International Court of Justice Against Israel for committing acts of genocide in Gaza

  12 January 2024

• Ukraine war increasingly seen as ‘fought by the poor’ | Wolff & Malyarenko

  12 January 2024

  January 4, 2024
  After the failure of Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive, Kyiv finds itself at a major crossroads and with no easy options.
  The demand late last year by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, for the mobilisation of an additional 500,000 troops, Ukraine’s armed forces have had a strength of around a million soldiers, with continuous regular mobilisation compensating for losses on the battlefield. Against this background, the target of an additional half a million troops (…)

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  Review of Postmodern Gandhi & Politics, Ethics and the Self Re-reading Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj | Chotelal Kumar

  12 January 2024, by Chhotelal Kumar

  BOOK REVIEW
  by Chotelal Kumar
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  Postmodern Gandhi and Other Essays
  Gandhi in the World and at Home
  by Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
  The University of Chicago Press | 2006 - 272 pages
  ISBN-10 : 0226731235
  ISBN-13 : 978-0226731230
  https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo4343100.html
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  Politics, Ethics and the Self Re-reading Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj
  Edited By Rajeev Bhargava
  Routledge India | 2022 - 370 Pages
  ISBN 9780367488598 (…)

• Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society - Edited by Chaokang Tai, Bart van der Steen, and Jeroen van Dongen

  12 January 2024

• Hindutva, Pythagoras and the Zero | Prabir Purkayastha

  12 January 2024, by Prabir Purkayastha

  Hindutva, Pythagoras and the Zero
  The BJP’s attacks on reason and critical thinking, on scientific temper, are an integral part of its assault on the Indian nation. Article 51 A (h) of the Constitution demands as a part of fundamental duties that citizens ‘develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform’. In October 2015, more than 100 leading scientists of the country felt compelled to point out that ‘ . . . what we are witnessing instead, is the active (…)