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• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 9 2022

  8 July 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 9, 2022
  Flash-floods in China, Germany, Brazil, and South Africa in 2021/2022 at the same time record-high temperatures in Canada and parts of the US faced made world news. Climate change is not some abstract thing it is very real and yet the power elites seem not to see the elephant in the room and seriously plan for it. Global warming is making the world hotter and creating extreme weather events. What will it take to make climate change and (…)

• Against The Dying of The Light - Bharat Ratna Frontier Gandhi, Badshah Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988) | A Note By Anil Nauriya

  8 July 2022, by Anil Nauriya

  [This note is being circulated for the attention of the candidates in the elections for the offices of President and Vice President of India and the respective electoral colleges in these elections. Recently, taking advantage of Covid lockdowns, the Haryana Government renamed Badshah Khan Hospital in Haryana after Atal Behari Vajpayee. This was done although the Frontier Gandhi, Badshah Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988), was, apart from other things, a recipient of the Bharat Ratna. He (…)

• Colombia turns to the left | Juan C Hernandez

  8 July 2022

  by Juan C Hernandez *
  The victory of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez of the leftist alliance Pacto Histórico, last June in the second round of the presidential elections marks a new era in the political history of Colombia and the Latin American region.
  Its importance is not limited to the fact that a former member of the urban guerrilla and a social leader from the country’s poorest region, two outsiders to the political system, will govern one of the Latin American largest economies (…)

• Dissident Voice of a ‘Foot Soldier of the Constitution’ | Arup Kumar Sen

  8 July 2022, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Very recently, the eminent human rights activist, Teesta Setalvad was arrested by the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) officials for “allegedly fabricating evidence, committing forgery and criminal conspiracy”. This happened a day after the Supreme Court dismissed a petition challenging the clean chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and 63 others in the 2002 Gujarat riots case”. (www.indiatoday.in)
  In her memoir titled ‘Foot Soldier of the (…)

• Sri Lanka: Gotabaya’s grand game-plan | Apratim Mukarji

  8 July 2022, by Apratim Mukarji

  Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fighting a united population, has now embarked upon a grand strategy to bring all politicians under his wing, irrespective of their party affiliations, so that the people in the country are fooled and deprived of their natural right to justice. It is a devilish plan to rob the Sri Lankans of their united fight against him, the last of the Rajapaksas, a clan that had grabbed all powers in the recent years in its hands and was ruling the country at (…)

• Significance of South India-Sri Lanka Sub-Regional Cooperation | Gull Mohammad Wani

  8 July 2022

  by Prof Gull Mohammad Wani *
  History tells us that crises can be negotiated in a useful manner to resolve problems facing the world. This can happen if we revisit approaches ,paradigms in vogue for a long time. It is during extraordinary moments that behaviors can shift from confrontation to cooperation and from enmity to intimacy. It is for the second time that Prime Minister of Sri-Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe during an interview to NDTV called for the development of the "South (…)

• Amid Shortages and Turmoil, Sri Lanka Grinds to a Halt | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  8 July 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

  For all practical purposes and intent, Sri Lanka’s once booming economy has collapsed. With traditional sellers unwilling to supply fuel due to lack of payment for previous shipments and Colombo not having foreign exchange to buy stocks that may be on way, petrol and diesel have almost run out in Sri Lanka.
  Whatever quantity the country still has is being made available only to essential services, virtually locking down the island nation of around 22 million people and emptying the streets (…)

• Ideating Sexual Citizenship: The Right of Sexual Self-Realization | Akanksha

  8 July 2022

  by Akanksha *
  ABSTRACT
  Queer Citizenship, Erotic Citizenship, sexual citizenship and Intimate Citizenship are the several attempts by scholars to bring about a union of two forms of belongingness- sexuality and citizenship. At the very core of this union lies a seeming paradox - how does an intimate identity, a ‘private trouble’ to use a concept from Michael Burawoy like sexuality enters into the public belonging like citizenship? Most accounts sexuality-citizenship interaction (…)

• Modi’s Mission 2025 | Faraz Ahmad

  8 July 2022, by Faraz Ahmad

  The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by a committed Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Pracharak, Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi as the country’s Prime Minister since May, 2014 is now busy with its Mission 2025—to ensure BJP/Sangh rule in the entire vast expanse and all the 36 states and union territories that comprise the Union of India.
  Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced the BJP intent to capture the entire expanse of remaining states, still out of BJP influence and ensure BJP rule (…)

• Upholding Abortion Rights: Top-down Approach Needed | Indranil De

  8 July 2022

  by Indranil De *
  The recent decision of US Supreme Court to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling restores the ability of states to pass laws prohibiting abortion. Abortion will soon become illegal in a large number of states. It erases the constitutional right of women to opt for abortion. This has direct implications on women’s ability to make choices and their empowerment. Women might have to travel other liberal states for abortion increasing cost and time. They may have to depend on (…)