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  16 December 2022

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Dec 3, Dec 10 2022

  2 December 2022

  * Poverty, Inequality has risen in the Modi Years | K N Ninan
  * Misplaced Claims of India Being the Mother of Democracy | S N Sahu
  * Somalia’s Long Journey from Prosperity to Hunger | Bharat Dogra
  * Albert Einstein on God, in his letter to Erik Gutkind (1954)
  * Concern over Death Penalty for protestors in Iran | IDPD

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 3, & Dec 10, 2022

  2 December 2022

  Letter to the Readers, December 3, December 10, 2022
  The big COP27 Climate jamboree with its 30,000 jet set delegates just ended in the Egyptian beach resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh (otherwise popular with Russian tourists). Climate and civil society activists at the conference faced some intimidation, harassment from the heavy handed Egyptian security and secret service, leading to a statement from prominent UN special rapporteurs to the Human Rights Council. The conference was marked by (…)

• BJP Wins Gujarat But Loses Himachal Pradesh! | Nilofar Suhrawardy

  2 December 2022, by Nilofar Suhrawardy

  [article updated on Dec 10, 2022]
  Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s victory in Gujarat Assembly Elections in view of its defeat in Himachal Pradesh as well as polls of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) certainly send contrary messages about this party’s hold in these three domains. While BJP has returned to power in Gujarat, it has failed to in Himachal Pradesh and has lost MCD polls after around 15 years. As expected, numerous speculations are being voiced about these election results. (…)

• Poverty, Inequality has risen in the Modi Years | K N Ninan

  2 December 2022

  by K N Ninan *
  Despite becoming the fifth largest economy in the world, India continues to have the largest concentration of the world’s poor estimated at 159.8 to 192.8 million people in 2020 using the international poverty line of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) $ 2.15 as per a recent World Bank report (World Bank 2022).
  Official estimates of poverty and inequality in India are based on the results of the household Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) of the National Sample Survey (NSS). (…)

• Gandhi in Gujarat meeting Bacha Khan fate in his homeland | Faraz Ahmad

  2 December 2022, by Faraz Ahmad

  “Tum bilkul hum jaise nikle tum bilkul hum jaisey nikley ab tak kahan chhupe the bhai voh moorkhta, voh ghaamarpan jis mein hum ne sadi ganwai aakhir pahunchi dwaar tumhaarey arre badhai bohot badhai —Pakistani poet Fehmida Riyaz after Babri Masjid demolition.
  Frontier Gandhi, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the symbol of non-violence, secularism and religious tolerance in what was then known as North West Frontier Province (NWFP) died in the era of General Ziaul Haq’s Islamised and Jehadised (…)

• The Bali Summit and India’s G20 Presidency | P S Jayaramu

  2 December 2022

  by P. S. Jayaramu
  November 28, 2022
  India accepted the Presidency of the G20 at the recently concluded summit at Bali, Indonesia. This is both an opportunity for India to project its leadership of the Global South as well as a challenge, as the Indian leadership will have to, in the next one year, use its diplomatic skills to bring on board the developed nations in the group towards working for solutions to the numerous issues ranging from the Ukraine war and its impact on the world at (…)

• Deconstructing the Contemporary Paradigm of BJP Politics | Arup Kumar Sen

  2 December 2022, by Arup Kumar Sen

  The recent campaigns of the BJP for the impending assembly elections in Gujarat enlightens us about the contemporary paradigm of BJP politics. Preaching hate against the Muslim community is an organic part of this paradigm of politics. This is embedded in the hate/ ‘peace’ speech of the Union Home Minister, Amit Shah at an election rally in the Kheda district: “...such a lesson was taught in 2002” to “those engaging in communal riots” in Gujarat that it led to “akhand shanti” (eternal peace) (…)

• India as Mother of Democracy : A Critical Assessment | SN Sahu

  2 December 2022, by S N Sahu

  It is a travesty of truth to call India a mother of democracy. If that is so then it is also mother of caste hierarchy, discrimination and domination. Caste system described by Dr. Ambedkar as “representing ascending order of reverence and descending order of contempt” was there in ancient times and still continues to subvert the idea of equality, liberty and fraternity so central to democracy. Many other inegalitarian aspects
  internal to Indian society were centered around sub castes, (…)

• Big promises but corruption flourishes in Punjab | Amit Kumar

  2 December 2022

  by Amit Kumar *
  November 28, 2022
  The Aam Aadmi Party promised a corruption-free Punjab but it has not been able to deliver on its campaign promise.
  Winning government on the back of an anti-corruption platform has proved to be a double-edged sword for the Aam Aadmi Party in India’s Punjab state.
  The Aam Aadmi Party, literally “Common Man’s Party”, emerged from an anti-corruption mass movement which itself was a reaction to a string of corruption scandals that plagued Indian (…)