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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Mar 13, 2021

  12 March 2021

  * Changing Goals of India’s Foreign Policy: An Analysis | P S Jayaramu
  * Lessons of the Dandi March on its 91st Anniversary | Satya Sahu
  * Remembering Fukushima: Phase-out all Nuclear power | Soumya Dutta
  * Kronstadt Revolt in the Soviet Union: List of sailors demands in Feb. 1921

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Mar 13, 2021

  12 March 2021

  Exactly 91 years ago on 12 March 1930 Mahatma Gandhi had embarked on the Dandi March also known as the Salt March or Salt Satyagraha — Gandhi walked from his ashram in Sabarmati to the small town of Dandi in Gujarat to protest against the repressive salt tax imposed by the colonial government. Prime Minister Narendra Modi whose political party the BJP (and its ideological mothership the RSS) which had nothing to do with India’s anti-colonial movement has decided that it is politically (…)

• Changing Goals of India’s Foreign Policy: An Analysis | P S Jayaramu

  12 March 2021

  by P. S. Jayaramu
  An attempt is made here to reflect on the changing goals of India’s Foreign Policy( IFP). The author’s desire is to present the broad goals of IFP, and not get into a discussion of bilateral relations, except cursorily referring to them wherever necessary.
  Pre-independence Foreign Policy:
  India is perhaps the only country in the world which had articulated its foreign policy even before it became independent. The doyen of Pre-independence period of foreign policy, (…)

• Significance of Frontier State in India’s Geo-Strategic Space: A Study of Arunachal Pradesh | Jajati K. Pattnaik

  12 March 2021

  by Dr Jajati K. Pattnaik
  Arunachal Pradesh, the frontier state of India, is poised to play a significant role in the geo-strategic space of India. It covers the largest geographical space among the eight sisters of India’s Northeast having geo-strategic significance for the country. The state is well located in the easternmost of the country by sharing international borders with Myanmar (520 km), China (1,080 km) and Bhutan (217 km). In this paper, the term geo-strategic is not merely (…)

• Movements Strengthen and liberate women and women strengthen Movements | Chaman Lal

  12 March 2021, by Chaman Lal

  One defining feature of ongoing farmers movement may not miss any eye. A sea of yellow chunnies worn by Punjabi women. How come that predominantly male farmers movement has attracted such wider participation of women? Interestingly two young girl singers have reframed the popular song-Mera rang de basanti chola to ---Merian rang de Basanti chunnian maye rang de Basanti chunnian….
  Participation of Indian women in socio-cultural movements in not new. In ancient times Gargi and Maitreyi (…)

• Setback over farm laws - Narendra Modi on salvage mission | Arun Srivastava

  12 March 2021

  by Arun Srivastava
  Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), spearheading the farmers’ movement met with its first major setback with people of Haryana failing to carry out its directive to force their legislators to vote against the M.L. Khattar government in the March 10 vote of no confidence.
  This move was widely publicised and was expected that the farmers of Haryana would enforce the decision. But with the BJP winning the trust vote with 55-32 votes it became crystal clear that the move failed. (…)

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  DUTA Letter to the Chief Minister of New Delhi Colleges Funded by Delhi Govt

  12 March 2021

  Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA)
  Sh. Arvind Kejriwal Hon’ble Chief Minister 6, Flag Staff Marg, Civil Lines
  New Delhi, Delhi 110054
  10.3.2021
  Subject: Regarding the 12 colleges 100% funded by the Delhi Government
  Dear Shri Kejriwal,
  We are writing to convey the anguish and anger of the teachers of Delhi University over the obdurate stance taken by you and your Government in not releasing grants to the 12 DU Colleges that are 100% funded by Delhi Government. In (…)

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  Concern over Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 - Statement by the Editors Guild of India

  12 March 2021

  The Editors Guild of India [EGI]
  PRESS STATEMENT
  March 5th, 2021
  The Editors Guild of India [EGI] is deeply concerned about the notification of Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021. The Rules, issued under the Information Technology Act, 2000, fundamentally alter how publishers of news operate over the Internet and have the potential to seriously undermine media freedom in India.
  They empower the Union Government to block, delete, (…)

• Why the 2021 West Bengal State Legislative Assembly Election Matters: Domino Falls or Stays? | Sri Ayush Majumdar and Gouri Sankar Nag

  12 March 2021

  by Sri Ayush Majumdar and Dr. Gouri Sankar Nag
  The celebration of indirect democracy begins with the election and ends with another election after a gap of few years to see the electoral mandate reflecting the satisfaction of the citizenry with the work of the elected representatives in between the two elections. The Election Commission of India as mandated under Article 324 of the Indian Constitution to conduct the state legislative assembly elections and with the complementary (…)

• It’s Now Declassified: Racism Rules | TJS George

  12 March 2021, by T J S George

  Richard Nixon’s secrets are out. He was a skunk. Widely disliked in America and outside, he became the only US President forced to resign. Henry Kissinger, the intellectual who exploited Nixon’s lack of intellect, was a cunning operator who used his President’s weakness to show off his own strength. It was a gloomy, cynical period of history for America and the world.
  Declassified White House tapes have now revealed sensational details. Nixon comes out as a racist whose personal (…)