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• Reflections on Tribal Unrest in Central India | Suresh Khairnar

  1 April 2022, by Suresh Khairnar

  Terming the Tribal Unrest as a law and order situation would be gross underestimation of this long-drawn symptom. Exploring the historical root of unrest would be the right way to formulate pragmatic response to this problem.
  1946-51 Telengana Kisan Andolan spearheaded by Leftists is even now termed by some as the golden period of Indian Peasant Movement. Mao’s People’s Movement that took place at the same time in China gave a philip to Indian Communist Movement. As the movement (…)

• On Inclusion, Diversity and Racism in India | Ajailiu Niumai

  1 April 2022

  by Ajailiu Niumai *
  Introduction
  Firstly, I would like to draw my personal experiences to highlight diversity and inclusion. To me, making the personal a part of our larger professional, academic and activists lives is logical and relevant for bridging the gap between ‘us’ (people of North East India) versus ‘them’ (the mainstream Indian people). Let me share that I migrated to Hyderabad to work since October 2000 onwards. My husband is Telegu and he is a Missile Scientist in DRDO. My (…)

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  Sara Suleri: Beyond borders | Beena Sarwar

  1 April 2022

  by Beena Sarwar
  25 March 2022
  “Aur bataiye” – tell me more, a polite invitation to keep talking. I can hear her voice, perhaps naturally husky, made deeper with years of cigarette smoking and perhaps more recently with pain and other medications.
  She’d send her love to Pakistan whenever I’d call before flying out from Boston, where we had both ended up around ten years ago – she after retiring as Professor Emeritus of English from Yale University. I had transplanted myself from my home (…)

• Excessive Tree Felling in Ecologically Crucial Himalayan Region Causes Concern | Bharat Dogra

  1 April 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  Recently former legislator of Himachal Pradesh Bambar Thakur has made a strong indictment of indiscriminate and illegal tree felling at various places in Bilaspur District. He has pointed out very specific sites where such felling of trees has taken place. He has also alleged that when local persons have drawn attention to such felling no action has been taken and hence the mafia involved in such felling has felt emboldened to continue its destructive activities. He has also threatened to (…)

• Who will be hurt more by Sanghi anti-Muslim tirade? | Faraz Ahmad

  1 April 2022, by Faraz Ahmad

  The Speaker of Karnataka Assembly announced from the Chair the other day, “Our RSS”. A minister taking the cue mocked the Congress leader saying it will soon be your RSS. Another minister of the BJP government in the state stood up to declare, the day is not far when every Muslim and Christian in the country will join the RSS. Is it an invitation, or a threat? Difficult to say.
  The defeat of secular democratic forces in the just concluded elections to five state assemblies has emboldened (…)

• ECI would do well to count 100% VVPAT slips | Sandeep Pandey, Vikrant Singh and Pawan Singh

  1 April 2022, by Sandeep Pandey

  by Sandeep Pandey, Vikrant Singh and Pawan Singh
  Even though Yogi Adityanath is now back as Chief Minister, the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election results can at best be taken with a pinch of salt. The general mood during the campaign was for change. People wanted the Bhartiya Janata Party government to go. People belonging to communities other than Yadav and Muslim, who were anyway believed to be solidly standing with Samajwadi Party, wanted to see Akhilesh Yadav back as CM, (…)

• Voices from the Peripheral Red Light Ghettos: Subaltern Perspectives in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi | Bhavya

  1 April 2022

  by Bhavya *
  Can the Subaltern Break the hierarchy?
  The Hindi language Bollywood movie ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10083340], directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali with Alia Bhatt in the lead role along with Ajay Devgun playing the role of Karim Lala, Vijay Raaz in the role of the transgender Razia Begum and Jim Sarbh as the Journalist Amin Faizi, raises concerns over the legal and social status of sex workers in India. It recounts the story of how a girl enters into (…)

• Environmental, Social Responsibility (ESG): New Age Financial Reporting | Nand L. Dhameja

  1 April 2022

  by Nand L. Dhameja *
  March 15, 2022 ESG is the acronym for Environmental, Social and Governance. It is being used in capital markets and by investors to evaluate corporate behaviour and to determine the expected future financial performance of companies. ESG criteria is a subset of non-financial indicators which include sustainable, ethical and corporate governance issues like managing the organisation’s carbon, environmental and social factors; such ESG criteria is attracting greater (…)

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  Book Review: Quraishi’s The Population Myth | Chanda Rani and Aamir Raza

  1 April 2022

  Reviewers: Chanda Rani and Aamir Raza * __0__
  The Population Myth: Islam, family Planning and Politics in India by S.Y. Quraishi
  HarperCollins India 2021, 256 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9390351545 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9390351541 __0__
  In recent years particularly after the landslide victory of the BJP in 2014 its followers, leaders and biased Media have vigorously perpetuated the propaganda that Muslims are deliberately increasing their population to outnumber the Hindus in India. A common (…)

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  Cartoon: This is a No-Fly Zone | Nala Ponnappa

  1 April 2022