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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Oct 29, 2022

  29 October 2022

  * Transfers of School Teachers in Haryana | Rajinder Chaudhary
  * Where did India’s millions of working women go? | Rajendra P. Mamgain
  * Russia: Impact of War & Mobilization on Industrial Workers | Azamat Ismailov

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 29, 2022

  29 October 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, October 29, 2022
  The election this week of the immigrant minority origin Rishi Sunak as the Prime Minister of UK been painted with a broad brush by some as ‘a revenge from the colonies’ having a man born from South Asian diaspora in Africa attain the highest position in Britain —the former colonial power. Some politicians particularly the right-wing lot in India are falsely labeling the British Citizen Sunak as Indian to give it a further nationalist (…)

• Messed Up Transfers of School Teachers in Haryana: Minister and Senior Officers Must Be Held Accountable | Rajinder Chaudhary

  29 October 2022

  by Rajinder Chaudhary *
  Appointments and transfers in government sector have a crucial role not only in the functioning of the government agency concerned but also in the quality of politics of the state too. As a major employer, appointment and transfer policy of a government has a major bearing on politics of the state. In 2016 new BJP government in Haryana had brought in transfer policy for teachers where in transfers were to be ‘carried out only through approved web based application’. (…)

• High Levels of Workplace Violence Lead to Increasing Concern | Bharat Dogra

  29 October 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  High levels of workplace violence are becoming a cause for serious concern in many countries. According to the European Working Conditions Survey, 6 million workers in the European Union are exposed in one year to workplace violence. If verbal violence is included, then the number exposed to violence is likely to exceed 30 million. France, Denmark and Belgium are among those countries which are on the higher than average side of this violence.
  In the USA during 2015- 2019 as many as (…)

• Paradoxes of Public Policy and Protest Politics under BJP Rule | Rohit Kumar

  29 October 2022

  by Rohit Kumar*
  THE IMPORTANCE OF movements and protests for the good health of a democracy is inevitable, keeping in view that these consolidate new political consciousness and help to spread and form new political cultures. However, after 2014, the authoritarian Bharatiya Janata Party government has sidelined and de-legitimised every opposition, every protest and every movement in a syncretic India. Demeaning of dissent has, thus, become the new normal of Indian democracy and undoubtedly (…)

• Playing with Public Perception: Opposition and the Public Enquiry | Shilp Shikha Singh

  29 October 2022

  Public perception plays a crucial role in today’s politics. While inclusivity of such public remains questionable it nonetheless creates a perception of common will. While BJP has mastered the art of creating perception through its meta narratives during and in-between elections, other parties fall far behind. What works for BJP does not seem to work for others. While the credit for building this rapport with public goes to BJP and its leadership, a large role is played by academia and media (…)

• Where did India’s millions of working women go? | Rajendra P. Mamgain

  29 October 2022

  by Rajendra P. Mamgain *
  Nearly 40 million women have left the workforce in India since the turn of the millennium despite an economic boom. Now, there’s a window to reverse the trend.
  Since the turn of the millennium, women have been leaving the workforce in India. Over 40.4 million fewer women[1] are in paid work today than in 2004. Despite making up nearly half of India’s population, women represent less than one third of the workforce. But the spiral can turn around, and India has a (…)

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  No Images of Gods on Indian Currency Notes - Letter to the Editor

  29 October 2022

  October 27, 2022
  The Editor,
  We strongly protest against any move to emboss Indian currency notes with the images of Goddess Laxmi and God Ganesh. It is a conspiracy to give Gandhi the Divine status and manufacture a new Trimurti.
  It is a move to insult Hinduism by defiling the image of a Hindu God and a Hindu Goddess whose rightful place is in sacred temples and not on the filthy currency notes. In our culture, money is dirt that needs to be discarded. We wash our hands after touching (…)

• Baji Rout, the Light of India’s Liberty | Kamalakanta Roul

  29 October 2022

  by Kamalakanta Roul
  Introduction: Achieving Swaraj by Indian Masses
  The paper examines the role and contribution of India’s youngest martyr Baji Rout who was just twelve years old when he laid down his life for the freedom of our country. He was martyred at the tender age while peacefully resisting the British troop to cross the river in his village by denying them the ferry boat. This year, the Ministry of Culture, Government of India has recognized him as “the youngest in the history (…)

• What Bandobast on Dengue? / Habib Jalib / Pran Nevile | Humra Quraishi

  29 October 2022, by Humra Quraishi

  26 October 2022
  With Dengue cases on the rise, one’s been sitting wondering: where are all the development machinery and gadgets and the much promised bandobast to keep mosquitoes away from us.
  Today it gets easier for the State machinery to kill a living human form than to kill the tiny little mosquito!
  Yes, that is the reality of the day. Easy and effortless to silence and demolish a human form. Mind you, the State even flaunts its encountering prowess! Tell me, how many of the (…)