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• The Congress Party: towards reinvention or split? | P. S. Jayaramu

  25 March 2022

  by P. S. Jayaramu
  (18th March 2022)
  Prime minister Narendra Modi and the Gandhi family are very much in the news these days. Modi for bringing the BJP back to power in four states and the Gandhi family for bringing down the Congress Party to a level where it faces an existential crisis. There are a few options before the Party—to reinvent itself or split if it comes to that. Before getting down to a discussion of them, it is appropriate to highlight some of the recent developments in the (…)

• Karnataka High Court’s Hijab Judgement: Blow To Liberal Value of The Constitution | Vijay Kumar

  25 March 2022, by Vijay Kumar

  The full Bench judgment of the Karnataka High Court upholding the order of Karnataka Government prohibiting the wearing of hijab in college represents grave blow to the liberal value of the Constitution, particularly emanating from its Preamble. The hijab judgment is untenable on numerous counts.
  The judgment posed a wrong question as to whether wearing hijab was an essential practice of Islam, and, after referring selectively to the works of Islamic scholars, answered the question that (…)

• The Need For Creating Revolutionary Materialism In India | Murzban Jal

  25 March 2022

  When reality is described, a self-sufficient philosophy [die selbständige Philosophie] loses its medium of existence. —Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The German Ideology.
  I have expressed the opinion that any unclarity in ideology brings great harm. I think that ideological unclarity is especially harmful for us now, when idealism of all varieties and shades, under the impact of reaction and the pretext of revising theoretical values, is holding veritable orgies in our literature, and (…)

• Reflections on India’s Connect Central Asia Policy | Gull Mohammad Wani

  25 March 2022

  by Prof Gull Mohammad Wani
  The world is with deep concern watching the conflict in Ukraine and its impact on the global and regional orders. The connect Central Asia policy of the Indian state has assumed more significance in present circumstances. Modi Government hosted first virtual India-Central Asia Summit on January 27, 2022 (CAR leaders had earlier similar virtual summit with Xi Jinping of China). Significantly the summit meetings shall now be held in an institutionalized (…)

• Russia Must End the Invasion of Ukraine | Anil Rajimwale

  25 March 2022, by Anil Rajimwale

  Invasion by Russian troops in Ukraine has led to a serious situation in Europe. For the first time since Second World War (WW II), Europe stands on the verge of a wider war, even a nuclear one, threatening the whole world. US and Russia are the most powerful nuclear powers. They are coming to a head, thanks to the US policies and more recently to the military adventurism of Russia. Language of nuclear threat is highly irresponsible. One must never forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  Both the (…)

• Putin’s fascists: the Russian state’s long history of cultivating homegrown neo-Nazis | Robert Horvath

  25 March 2022

  by Robert Horvath *
  March 21, 2022
  Many commentators have already debunked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s absurd claim to be waging war to “de-nazify” Ukraine.
  Some have pointed out the far right received only 2% of the vote in Ukraine’s 2019 parliamentary elections, far less than in most of Europe. Others have drawn attention to Ukraine’s Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and the efforts of the Ukrainian state to protect minorities like Crimean Tatars and LGBTQ+ people, who (…)

• People of Russia protested against the war | Radhakanta Barik

  25 March 2022, by Radhakanta Barik

  Streets of Russia Look different With colourful flowers On the sides of street Flowers with reddish colour It creates life in dead souls They feel pain for others They feel intensely about the neighbhours Pain is the beginning of thinking This thinking supported writings On farmers Producing wheat Workers in Defence industries They feel bad Their products used for the war They get reminded of their mothers They want peace They want food No war These slogans brought the (…)

• Why Safety Concerns Should Get More Attention in COVID Vaccine — Lessons from A Comparative Study | Bharat Dogra

  25 March 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  COVID-19 vaccines have been widely discussed, but still safety aspects need more attention. Generally in the case of all vaccines adverse events recorded constitute an important part of discussion relating to them, and this is all the more so in the case of COVID-19 vaccines which were developed and distributed in unprecedented hurry.
  A comparative review of adverse impacts of COVID-19 vaccines is attempted here at two levels. Firstly in the case of a single country (USA) where (…)

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  Caricature Tribute to Mallu Swarajyam | Jayaraj Vellur

  25 March 2022, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Musical Theme from Charulata (1964) by Satyajit Ray

  25 March 2022

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