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• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Mar 18, 2023

  18 March 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 18, 2023
  In the past week, the media machine and top leaders of BJP - India’s ruling Party have gone in top gear to target the Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi for his recent remarks in the UK, suggesting deteriorating condition of India’s democratic institutions, under the Government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Many serving ministers have spoken out in the Parliament against Rahul Gandhi along with other leaders of the BJP in this hot (…)

• Science as a way of life: the political apathy and the way out | Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan

  18 March 2023, by Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan

  On the 28th of February, we celebrated National Science Day in India. This day commemorates Indian physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman’s discovery of light scattering by molecules of a medium in 1928

• Conspiracy ’Kaal’ Begins | L K Sharma

  18 March 2023

  by L K Sharma
  “The clawing “foreign hand” is out to harm the Prime Minister and the nation”, Indians are warned. It caused a triple whammy, unleashing on India a foreign broadcasting company, a foreign corporation, and an old American.
  The “foreign hand” reached out from the evil West that breeds human rights, activists, and anti-corruption crusaders. It appeared as a European NGO and an Australian journalist. It used a British university and a think tank. It made The New York Times and (…)

• Enter The Monster | Kobad Ghandy

  18 March 2023, by Kobad Ghandy

  Bill Gates said : The next pandemic could be far more fatal than this one. This one killed over 20 million, mostly older people. You could have a pandemic that would kill hundreds of millions - like small pox level of fatality. It might be particularly risky for younger people.
  Has Bill Gates come to India to frighten us and create a fear psychosis? According to the WHO the number of people who have died globally of Covid till end February 2023 is about 70 lakhs (actually 68,59,096) of (…)

• Nation Fails When the States Fail | Srinivas K. Saidapur

  18 March 2023

  by Srinivas K. Saidapur *
  Human development is making of a man for harmonious living with fellow human beings, animals and plants. The overall ecosystem must be congenial for all living beings including the microbes- lest they become virulent! Whereas, national development pertains to overall welfare of the citizens, material prosperity and economy, business and trade, security of the nation, maintenance of law and order as well as good international relations. The human/national (…)

• Journey from Extremist Hindu to Humanist Ambedkarite: A Conversation with Dalit Author Bhanwar Meghwanshi | Neeraj Bunkar

  18 March 2023

  by Neeraj Bunkar
  Abstract: In this interview, Meghwanshi recollects his experience in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and his active engagement in the fact-finding group for the Gujarat riot, 2002. He characterises his book I Could Not Be Hindu as a “guide note” not only for fighting against the RSS but to show a path to Dalit youths who, knowingly and unknowingly, get caught in the trap of the Sangh Parivar organisations and their mission of hatred. His transformation from hardcore (…)

• India Vs China: In Himalayan Hydropower diplomacy | Santhosh Mathew

  18 March 2023

  by Santhosh Mathew *
  Abstract
  As opposed to the regarded Chinese hydro-hegemony in the South Asian and the Southeast Asian region, India is often questioned about its own hegemonic practices of conducting hydro-relations with the Himalayan nations which largely impedes cooperation. Focusing mainly on the India-Nepal hydropower diplomacy, numerous treaties like Kosi, Gandak or Mahakali treaty has been largely ineffective in cases of major disagreements ranging from hydropower generation, (…)

• Fading Purpose of Parks in Delhi | Jeevesh Gupta

  18 March 2023

  by Jeevesh Gupta * I remember when music was thrown out of the deer park in South Delhi by DDA. This was sometime in 2016-17 when a group of drummers called the Delhi Drums Circle having 20000+ active members on Facebook and 100+ in attendance for every get together, were asked to stop playing because as per DDA the music was troubling the animals inside the deer park. All this group was doing was playing drums and other instruments, dancing, bringing people from various walks of life (…)

• Quest for Spiritual Development in Our Times | Bharat Dogra

  18 March 2023, by Bharat Dogra

  The yearnings for spiritual development have always been a very important part of the various quests of humanity, although their context may differ from time to time. The most significant context of present times is that human made causes have created a survival crisis (related to very serious environmental problems, weapons of mass destruction and other factors) and as we struggle to face this enormous challenge, we can get important help from spiritual development.
  To start (…)

• The spirituality ripoff | Peggy Kornegger

  18 March 2023

  From: Second Wave, Volume 4, Number 3, a magazine of the new feminism, Spring 1976
  by Peggy Kornegger *
  In the past year, the national and local media have given a great deal of coverage to the spread of spirituality in this country. Feature articles on Transcendental Meditation (TM), Erhard Seminars Training (EST), and the general trend toward therapeutic mysticism have appeared in newspapers and magazines of the right, left, and center. In addition, feminist publications have devoted (…)