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• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 23, 2022

  22 April 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 23, 2022
  That climatic change and growing environmental stress must reshape state policy on land, water, forests, agriculture, transport, building rules, waste management and pollution control, sanitation, recycling, urbanisation and energy use at all levels have been a given for years but the inability of policymakers, corporates and society to change ways is all too visible. Economic development and industrial plans — infrastructure and mining (…)

• Climate Change 2022 Report: Act Now to Avert Catastrophic Events | K N Ninan

  22 April 2022

  by K N Ninan *
  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released its third and final report of the sixth assessment report which focusses on Mitigation of Climate Change. Like the earlier two assessment reports it depicts a very grim picture of the climate situation. The report notes that the last decade from 2010 to 2019 witnessed the highest decadal absolute increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions since 1850. Global net anthropogenic GHG emissions were around 59 (…)

• Earth Day (April 22) re-emphasizes the urgent need for resolving the survival crisis before it is too late | Bharat Dogra

  22 April 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  This year Earth Day (22 April 2022 ) is being observed at a time when the dangers to our once beautiful and bountiful planet appear to be at their most extreme. This is not just because of the more worrying projections of climate change by leading scientists, or because of similar projections of a worsening situation with respect to other serious environmental problems. This is also because of the deeply disappointing attitudes of world leadership as seen in the rapid escalation of the (…)

• Making Sense of the Review of the IMF’s Institutional View on Capital Flows | Kavaljit Singh

  22 April 2022, by Kavaljit Singh

  On March 30, 2022, the International Monetary Fund published the Review of the Institutional View on the Liberalization and Management of Capital Flows. The review updates the IMF’s Institutional View (IV), adopted in November 2012, followed by guidance notes on capital flows added in April 2013 and December 2015. The IMF’s Institutional View is an important policy document because it provides an analytical framework for the Fund’s policy advice on liberalizing and managing capital flows. (…)

• Jammu and Kashmir: Tenth Report Of The Concerned Citizens’ Group (April 15, 2022)

  22 April 2022

  Tenth Report Of The Concerned Citizens’ Group
  15 April 2022
  The Concerned Citizens’ Group made its tenth visit to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) from March 20 to 25, 2022. The visit took place after the Delimitation Commission had made its report public which led to considerable consternation amongst the political parties in the Union Territory, especially those in the Kashmir Valley. It also took place in the immediate aftermath of the release of “The Kashmir Files” a film that was being (…)

• Alas, Hindi Will Never Unite India | TJS George

  22 April 2022, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  Amit Shah has cultivated the image of a clever politician. May be he is clever. May be not. The stance on Hindi that he announced a few days ago showed no signs of cleverness. It showed how he could wade into an emotional issue, make a mess of it with his politicking, and gain nothing in the end.
  Hindi, he said, should act as India’s link language. Mahatma Gandhi said that, too. Where the Mahatma failed, can Amit Shah succeed? The Hindi issue is immersed in (…)

• The Silent Revolution of Subaltern leader | Kiran. M Gajanur, Nirmal Kumar & Vishal Tembhurne

  22 April 2022

  Among the builders of modem India, Babu Jagjivan Ram was an important personality. His thought, speech, and action helped shape our country’s future. Babuji made his first appearance in the people movement in 1928 as part of the mazdoor rally at wellington square, Kolkata; He made his first appearance on the national panorama during the freedom movement as a learned, meritorious leader and social reformer from a subaltern section of the Society in 1932. Once, he said, "India is a storehouse (…)

• Why is BJP’s popularity declining in Bengal | Tarun Kumar Basu

  22 April 2022, by Tarun Kumar Basu

  The loss in the bypolls will send an alarm signals to the saffron camp
  The massive erosion in vote share for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in bypolls in both Asansol Loksabha and Ballygunge assembly in West Bengal have kept the saffron camp aggrieved with just around two years left for the next parliamentary election in 2024.
  But central leadership of BJP is not disquieted about the decline of vote sharing in all, the elections from Municipal Corporation to the bypolls. Since the (…)

• Three cheers to Comrade Brinda Karat! | Faraz Ahmad

  22 April 2022, by Faraz Ahmad

  Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Politburo member Brinda Karat deserves our salute for rising up to the occasion and demonstrating what real leaders are made of.
  Ever since the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won elections in four out of five states where it was politically relevant, including UP, which went to polls in February-March this year and the Congress lost in all the four states where it was in direct fight with the BJP, the upbeat mood of the victors has translated (…)

• Will the Nagas get a peace deal ? | Sandeep Pandey and Pankaj Pushkar

  22 April 2022, by Sandeep Pandey

  by Sandeep Pandey and Pankaj Pushkar
  Dimapur Conclave for ‘Save the Peace,’ organized by Naga People’s Movement for Human Rights on 25-26 March, 2022, adopted the following resolution: Indo-Naga political talks must be supported and protected till it achieves the desirable goal of honourable and lasting peace for both the parties in talks. The Framework Agreement signed on August 3, 2015 at Delhi is a solemn commitment between the Naga people and the Government of India (…)