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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Apr 1, 2023

  1 April 2023

  * China through the Lens of Two Doctors and Two Pandemics | Chathukulam and Joseph
  * Big Questions Over India’s ‘Green Hydrogen’ Mission | Singh & Pirani
  * Joint statement by Burma resistance on the situation of Burmese refugees in Manipur, India - 2 March 2023

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Apr 1, 2023

  1 April 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Apr 1, 2023
  BJP, India’s ruling party is in the regular business of using religion for political purposes and setting tensions here and there while targeting minorities. Some of this is made to happen during religious festivals. So, much like last year, this week too a very aggressive and noisy religiopolitical reverie has been on, where gun totting, abuse spewing, angry activists of the Hindutva far right could be seen, some barged into Sufi religious (…)

• The Curious Case of China through the Lens of Two Doctors and Two Pandemics | Jos Chathukulam and Manasi Joseph

  1 April 2023, by Jos Chathukulam, Manasi Joseph

  Abstract
  The 2003 SARS and the latest Covid 19 pandemic underlined the need to adopt a participatory democratic framework in authoritarian regimes like China. This article looks into how the authoritarian political system in a way failed authoritarian states like China when it comes to epidemic and pandemic management through the perspective of two doctors and two pandemics.
  Introduction
  On March 11, 2023, Jiang Yanyong, the Chinese military doctor who exposed the truth regarding the (…)

• Big Questions over India’s ‘Green Hydrogen’ project | Pritam Singh and Simon Pirani

  1 April 2023, by Pritam Singh, Simon PIrani

  There’s so much fanfare around green hydrogen in the ruling establishment and among clean energy hawks, but what is being missed is the problems associated with hydrogen being treated as an alternative to fossil fuels and the viability of the process involved in obtaining green hydrogen.
  Given the climate emergency our planet is facing, with accelerating global heating and devastating bio-diversity loss, any initiative by a government which proclaims its aim as ‘greening the economy’ (…)

• Kashmir’s Trader Forum Polls Fosters Hope for Democracy | K Gireesan

  1 April 2023

  by K Gireesan *
  WHY SHOULD A commercial organisation’s elections be important? It is important because it heralds a change in the political process of democracy suspended in a geo-politically crucial region.
  The socio-economic-political scenario changed in Jammu and Kashmir three years ago when Article 370 was abrogated and the special status of the State was removed by withdrawing Article 35A. It resulted in change of status of Jammu and Kashmir ‘from one State’ into two Union (…)

• The case of Kashmir: A Gandhian Resolution | Sandeep Pandey

  1 April 2023, by Sandeep Pandey

  One of the most geographically, politically and now militarily contested territory that has raised innumerable human rights questions in the recent and distant past continues to be Kashmir. Kashmir today is devoid of Swaraj, of the real essence of Kashmiriyat. Granville Austin underpins the legitimacy of a constitution in any given territory, and particularly India, in the consent of the masses. While he does provide a flexibility of justification sourced from either Tacit Consent or (…)

• Media Pundits presenting a skewed picture of Rahul’s crusade against Narendra Modi | Arun Srivastava

  1 April 2023

  by Arun Srivastava
  Post-disqualification analysis by some media pundits and analysts of Rahul Gandhi’s conviction and Narendra Modi grabbing the occasion to disqualify him from the membership of the parliament makes bizarre reading. They say; “the verdict wasn’t unexpected, it was on its way. Truly, there couldn’t have been a better way to tame Rahul Gandhi than by reading him the riot act with a criminal defamation charge.” It emphatically underlines a candid inference that they were (…)

• American Banking Crisis and Role of Finance Capital | Soma Marla

  1 April 2023, by Soma S. Marla

  Recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), has further led to the fall of the Signature bank, Credit Suisse and now a major European German Credit Douche bank. This banking crisis resulted from US Treasury’s recent interest rate hike. Cracks are appearing in US banking as fears of a possible financial contagion across the world, reminding 2008 Lehman brothers economic meltdown. It’s implications will soon be felt in Indian economy.
  The present banking crisis is caused by stockpiling of (…)

• Odisha Day Celebrations on 1st April are of Contemporary Significance | S N Sahu

  1 April 2023, by S N Sahu

  Creation of Odisha as a separate State on 1st April 1936 based on language was a historic step in fulfilment of the demand of leadership of Odisha and Indian National Congress for the reorganisation of States based on language. The fact that Odisha provided the pioneering initiative in that direction amply proved the genius of Odia leadership in starting such a great movement. The country and Odisha is mighty proud of Utkalgaurab Madhusudan Das who started Utkal Sammilani in 1903 to unify (…)

• Joint statement by Burma resistance forces on the situation of Burmese refugees in Manipur, India - 2 March 2023

  1 April 2023

  1. We are democratic forces from various regions of Myanmar fighting against the Myanmar junta who have been killing civilians at will following an attempted coup.
  2. Myanmar’s people deserve democracy. The government and people of India know best how difficult the road to democracy can be. When the Myanmar junta attempted to seize power and install military rule in 2021, all the people of Myanmar, including those from India’s neighbouring Sagaing Region and Chin State were left with (…)