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• Review NPR-NRC: Disruptive, expensive, impractical, illogical | SG Vombatkere

  29 May 2021, by S G Vombatkere

  May 19, 2021
  Illegal migrants living inside India is a worrying, long-standing reality dating back to the 1950s. This is so especially in several border states. Over decades, successive governments of different political persuasions at centre have amended the Citizenship legislation several times, but have only complicated, not helped to resolve if not solve, the issue. Together, the centre and states have failed to solve the problem of identifying illegal migrants. These failures have (…)

• Is National Government the way out to deal with Covid-19? | P S Jayaramu

  29 May 2021

  by P. S Jayaramu
  Without doubt, the Covid-19 pandemic is the greatest national human disaster faced by India in the post- independence era. In meeting the challenge, the Central Government has regrettably failed in many respects. Many analysts and Opposition Parties have criticised the Modi Government on several grounds. Of late, we are reading about the simmering discontent among senior members of the Government as well as the BJP’s parent body the RSS, as is evident from the concluding (…)

• The Biden Administration: What Kind of Multilateralism is in Store? | M J Vinod

  29 May 2021

  by M.J.Vinod*
  The assumption of power by the Biden Presidency has opened out many possibilities for the future of multilateralism. His return to multilateral diplomacy, trade and politics seems to be quite promising. The Trump administration ripped apart all that was carefully nurtured over the years. In his first few days in office Trump withdrew from the Paris climate change agreement, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Iran Nuclear Deal, and delegitimized the very idea of (…)

• India should reassess dependency on Quad | Mani Shankar Aiyar

  29 May 2021, by Mani Shankar Aiyar

  May 09, 2021
  While Indian and Chinese army commanders circle around each other, like Sumo wrestlers, waiting for the right moment to clinch, our political leaders have not spelt out what their overarching objectives are in the pursuit of India-China relations.
  Is it our strategic aim to rival and overtake the Chinese? And is it, therefore, our tactical aim to not cede “an inch” of what we believe is an integral and inalienable part of Mother India, sanctified by the Vedas, the Puranas, (…)

• India’s Engagement with QUAD | Santosh Kumar

  29 May 2021

  by Santosh Kumar *
  Introduction:
  The QUAD which serves to be an acronym of Quadrilateral Security Dialogue is an association of four countries namely; India, Japan, US, and Australia. The Quad was initiated in the year 2007 by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with the help of US, India and Australia. The very purpose of the security dialogue was to counter the Chinese economic and military influence and to facilitate dialogue and cooperation among the member countries. However the idea (…)

• Bangladesh Left Bloc Demands Withdrawal Of Case Against Journalist | Sankar Ray

  29 May 2021, by Sankar Ray

  May 25, 2021
  Human Rights Violation Cases Are Increasing Under Hasina Regime
  Bam Ganatantrik Jote (Left Democratic) front comprising Bangladesh Samajtontri Dal, Communist Party of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Samajtontri Dal Marxvadi, United Communist League of Bangladesh, Samajtontri Andolan and Ganatantric Biplabi Dal in a joint statement demanded that the criminal case against the leading Bengali morninger Prothom Alo senior reporter Rozina Islam be withdrawn unconditionally. The forty-two (…)

• Netanyahu and Hamas Are Playing a Deadly Game | Hillel Schenker

  29 May 2021

  [The below article was written before the May 20, 2021 ceasefire between Israel and Gaza came into effect]
  by Hillel Schenker *
  May 18, 2021
  Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas hope to benefit from the latest round of violence between the Israelis and Palestinians while civilians on both sides suffer.
  In March, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was unable to achieve a parliamentary majority in the Knesset after a fourth Israeli election in two years. As a result, he needed a national crisis (…)

• The Return of the Military Memoir: The Bundeswehr Deployment to Afghanistan and the Re-Emergence of a Literary Form | Andrew Plowman

  29 May 2021

  by Andrew Plowman *
  Abstract
  This article examines the re-emergence of the military memoir in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) since the deployment of the Bundeswehr, the armed forces of the FRG, to Afghanistan as part of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in 2001. The resurgence of a literary form associated in the 1950s with the apologetics of officers of the Wehrmacht, Hitler’s army, and the construction of a usable Second World War past is striking. The (…)

• High Drama of Arrest In The Air and Forced Confession of Young Belarusian Journalist Raman Pratasevich by Authoritrian President Lukashenko | RG Gidadhubli

  29 May 2021

  by R G Gidadhubli
  The news of the arrest of young Belarusian journalist Raman Pratasevich on 23rd May was highlighted by the global media since he was caught in the Ryanair flight from Greece to Baltic State Lithuania by forcibly diverting the plane to Belarus on the orders of the President of Belarus Lukashenko. As per reports the Belarusian security agents allegedly used a bomb hoax to force the commercial airliner Ryanair carrying Pratasevich to catch and arrest him. Security people (…)

• Understanding of rural society: migration and poverty from an anthropologist’s point of view | Radha Kanta Barik

  29 May 2021, by Radhakanta Barik

  by Radha Kanta Barik
  (This is a study of an island of twenty two villages of Cuttack District where endemic poverty and hunger were there before migration happened. Rural society has got transformed into a reasonable prosperous society because of migration to different places. We have applied the method of participant observation for finding the truth.)
  Introduction
  The government of Odisha has treated the migrant workers in a somewhat reasonable way. (Barik 2020) The government knows (…)