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  Film: The Tenth Man directed by Jack Gold

  18 March 2023

  The Tenth Man is a novel by the British novelist Graham Greene. Play
  The Tenth Man 1988 | Full Movie | English Movie by Logan Smtith https://youtu.be/aB6ncmkHY2k

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Mar 11, 2023

  11 March 2023

  * Christian Show of Unity, Anger Catches BJP by Surprise | John Dayal
  * As the WPL Starts, Don’t Look Back in Anger | Aparajita
  * Omnipresent Caste | Sandeep Pandey
  * Review of Prakash Singh’s book on Police Reforms | K S Subramanian
  * Review of Sarunas Paunksnis book on Hindi Cinema | Radhakanta Barik
  * Metaphor In Orbit (Science is Not All Social Relations) | Rose & Rose

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Mar 11, 2023

  11 March 2023

  Letter to the readers, Mainstream, March 11, 2023
  Vice President & Chair of the Rajya Sabha Must Act in all Fairness
  Our constitution envisages the Parliament as a space for free speech and debate. Recently expressed public remarks and actions by Mr. Jagdeep Dhankar, the Vice President of India and who is constitutionally mandated to Chair the Rajya Sabha – the upper house of India’s Parliament are causing concern. In January of this year, Vice President Dhankhar created a flutter (…)

• TIPRALand was a ruse to surreptitiously help the BJP in Tripura polls | Faraz Ahmad

  11 March 2023, by Faraz Ahmad

  The cat is out of the bag, TIPRA Motha chief Pradyot Manikya Debbarma, whose electoral debut helped the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) barely scrape through the recently held Tripura Assembly elections and resume power for a second five-year term, has offered the much need support of his 13 MLAs to the Manik Saha led BJP government.
  BJP had won 32 seats in a 60-member House including that won by Pratima Bhoumik, a Union minister, also projected by the BJP, during the campaign, as a chief (…)

• Christian Show of Unity, Anger Catches BJP by Surprise | John Dayal

  11 March 2023, by John Dayal

  Days after 25-year-old Nasir and Junaid, 35, of Ghatmkeeka in the western state of Rajasthan where killed and their bodies burnt in their jeep in February 2023 by cow vigilante members of the Bajrang Dal, in distant Meghalaya in the northeast, State Bharatiya Janata Party President, Ernest Mawrie, made a startling statement. He said there are no restrictions on consuming beef in the Hindutva party. Mawrie told India today he himself eats beef and there is no issue with it.
  Meghalaya is (…)

• Omnipresent Caste | Sanjana Sree Manusanipalli and Sandeep Pandey

  11 March 2023, by Sandeep Pandey

  The city is supposed to be the place where anyone can be anything they want to be. They say in a city like Hyderabad, there are no feelings of caste, class or religion. Everyone is supposed to be equal. Sociologists have also believed that urbanisation could signal the end of the caste system. B. R. Ambedkar encouraged people from marginalised castes to migrate to urban areas. He believed Indian villages perpetuate this system of inequality. Unfortunately, however, cities have their own way (…)

• Aadhaar and Disempowerment | Arup Kumar Sen

  11 March 2023, by Arup Kumar Sen

  The Union government is pursuing the aggressive policy of linking welfare schemes for the people with Aadhaar. According to the social activist, Nikhil Dey, recent shift to Aadhaar-based payment of MGNREGA wages took place when only 43 per cent of workers had their bank accounts Aadhaar-seeded. Very recently, the Centre sought monthly updates on the number of Aadhaar-authenticated students at every government and aided school in the country and the number of midday meals each serves. It is (…)

• Can RSS be compared to Muslim Brotherhood? | Ram Puniyani

  11 March 2023

  by Ram Puniyani
  In his recent tour abroad (August 2018) while addressing the International Institute for Strategic Studies Rahul Gandhi stated that "The RSS is trying to change the nature of India. There is no other organization in India that wants to capture India’s institutions... It is similar to the idea that exists in the Arab world of the Muslim Brotherhood. The idea is that one ideology should run through every institution and one idea should crush all other ideas,” and that "Muslim (…)

• Common Salt Intake Health Risks Very High In India | Gyan Pathak

  11 March 2023

  by Dr. Gyan Pathak
  March 10, 2023
  Despite commitments made to reduce the hazardous level of common salt, also called table salt, chemical name Sodium Chloride (NaCl), intake leading to increased health risks of heart diseases, stroke, and premature deaths, India has only a provision of mandatory declaration of sodium on pre-packaged food but no other mandatory measures in place, and therefore remains in score 2 in a first-of-its-kind WHO global report.
  Score 2 for India means the (…)

• Bringing Civility Back in Politics: The Moral Significance of Bharat Jodo Yatra | Supriy Ranjan, Pankaj Kumar

  11 March 2023

  by Supriy Ranjan abd Pankaj Kumar *
  The Pathological Predicament of Modern Leadership
  The vision of realpolitik inaugurated by the great Italian philosopher Machiavelli in “The Prince” has had a lasting presence in modern politics. Machiavelli signified the cusp as to how we envision politics as a vocation entirely and purely driven by the pragmatics of capturing and maintaining power. In this vision, even compassion and innocence are strategic, bereft of any innate goodness.
  Though (…)