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• Politics of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh: Mapping Trajectories of Change in the Post-Bifurcation Period | Karli Srinivasulu

  27 May 2022, by Karli Srinivasulu

  The state of Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated into the two states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh (AP) in 2014 after nearly six decades of existence. It is more than seven years since they came into being as two separate states. Two elections to their state assemblies and two parliamentary elections in 2014 and 2019 have been conducted, leading to a restructuring of political regimes, strengthened development-welfare policy focus, new political contestations, and enhanced modes of coopting and (…)

• Relevance of Nehru’s Legacy of Democracy, Secularism, Socialism, Peace and Non-Alignment Has Increased Further | Bharat Dogra

  27 May 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  Thoughts on On the Death Anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru — 27 May
  It is a true mark of greatness if what a leader struggles to achieve in his lifetime is widely realized to be even more valuable in the years or decades after he has left the world. This is exactly how Jawaharlal Nehru is being remembered by more and more people of his country, despite a persistent tendency on the part of the present right-wing government to deny the greatness of his achievements and legacy. At a wider level (…)

• Retreat of the State in Financing of Higher Education - Questions over the funding of MD University, Rohtak | Rajinder Chaudhary

  27 May 2022

  by Rajinder Chaudhary
  Fortunately, but unusually, recently financing of higher education in Haryana was under spotlight after the Finance Department of Haryana issued a notification sanctioning loan of Rs 147.75 crore to publicly funded Universities of Haryana. Newspapers reported that this loan was in lieu of annual grant-in-aid. Right at that time, a joint forum of students’ organisations of MD University, Rohtak had been agitating seeking roll back of doubling of various kind of fees (…)

• Allah Baksh and Indian Nationhood | Anil Nauriya

  27 May 2022, by Anil Nauriya

  (Online Lecture by Anil Nauriya on 14 May 2022 at Commemorative Function on Allah Baksh organised by the Society for Communal Harmony).
  The 79th Anniversary of the assassination of Allah Baksh (spelt also as Bakhsh, Buksh and Bux) fell on May 14, 2022.
  Why is it important to remember Allah Baksh and to commemorate this day?
  All communalism thrives on stereotypes. Many of the stereotypes being circulated in the colonial interest have also strengthened communal stereotypes and (…)

• Gyanvapi, Mathura Idgah, Qutab - BJP agenda: Scrap PoW Act, 1991 | Faraz Ahmad

  27 May 2022, by Faraz Ahmad

  The BJP has opened its cards for the coming polls, right up to the 2024 general elections—whip up a frenzy over Gyanvapi Masjid of Varanasi, Idgah in Mathura, even Qutub Minar in Delhi and a host of other historical monuments and thereby seek to scrap the Places of Worship (PoW) Act, 1991, which expressly forbids any alteration or claim on any place of worship other than those in whose care or possession it existed on 15 August, 1947, the day India achieved independence. The Act while (…)

• Reading the Literary Imagination of Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Arup Kumar Sen

  27 May 2022, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a big name in Latin American Literature. One may be interested to know how he made his entry into the world of literature. To put it in his own words: “It had never occurred to me that I could be a writer, but in my student days Eduardo Zalamea Borda, editor of the literary supplement of ElEspectador, in Bogota, published a note in which he said that the younger generation of writers had nothing to offer, that a new short-story writer, a new novelist, could not be (…)

• Exodus from Sri Lanka to India | Apratim Mukarji

  27 May 2022, by Apratim Mukarji

  The searing and prolonged economic-political crisis in Sri Lanka has now expectedly turned into a refugee exodus from the island-nation to India, whch is the traditional haven for Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka.
  The failure of the Sri Lankan government to tackle the economic crisis even two years after the first rumblings of deep discontent were heard has now gulvanised Sri Lankan society---consisting of all the three main religions, Sinhalese Buddhists, Hindu Tamils, and Muslims, and (…)

• Digitizing To Dystopia: Wanted: Enlightened leadership | S.G.Vombatkere

  27 May 2022, by S G Vombatkere

  The combination of information technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology (IT-BT-NT) is the cutting edge of civilizational transformation in the on-going “digital era”. This technological trio is based upon digitizing and manipulating data. [Ref.1]
  IT-BT-NT are becoming primary tools for research in the physical, natural, and social sciences, and connected technologies.
  Perhaps the most influential technologies created by IT-BT-NT in the social, economic and political spheres of human (…)

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  UN Security Council’s Statement on the situation in Afghanistan (May 25, 2022)

  27 May 2022

  25 May 2022
  UNIC / PRESS RELEASE / 110-2022
  FROM THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL
  UN Security Council’s Statement on the situation in Afghanistan
  The members of the Security Council expressed deep concern regarding the increasing erosion of respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of women and girls in Afghanistan by the Taliban, including through imposition of restrictions that limit access to education, employment, freedom of movement, and women’s full, equal and meaningful (…)

• The Gospel According To Amitbhai | T J S George

  27 May 2022, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  Narendra Modi is undoubtedly the most p. r. conscious Prime Minister in Indian history. Extensive use of TV channels, Twitter and Facebook has always been part of his routine. Doctored images presenting him in glamorous ways have been common. A story once appeared in the papers saying that he saved 15,000 Gujarati pilgrims stranded in Uttarakhand. Another invented story was that Modi was declared incorruptible by Wikileaks founder.
  Now we have a whole new book. (…)