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• Modi government getting ready to confront the farmers | Arun Srivastava

  9 January 2021

  by Arun Srivastava
  After 40 days of peaceful nonviolent satyagraha, a situation reminiscent of the famous 1942 “Do or Die” movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi, is fast emerging on the political horizon with the farmers’ not willing to accept anything below scrapping of three black farm laws and providing legal status to the MSP acquiring a new dimension and dynamics.
  If it was the reluctance of the Britishers to listen to the Indian voice that forced Mahatma Gandhi in 1942 to give the (…)

• India in a Scissors Crisis | Shubham Sharma

  9 January 2021

  by Shubham Sharma
  December 31, 2020
  India, a modern-day bourgeois democracy with socialism sitting uncomfortably in the Preamble, neither faces a civil war nor an invasion of states. Its problems are self-generated. The twin blades of economic and political crisis have been self sharpened by the government on the whetstones of indifferent governance, communalism, and neo-liberal capitalism.
  India is in a ‘scissors crisis’. The phrase was employed first, and duly plotted on a graph by a (…)

• Aligarh and Women’s education: a brief overview | Ishrat Mushtaq and Sajad Hassan Khan

  9 January 2021

  by Ishrat Mushtaq and Sajad Hassan Khan *
  Women’s education in nineteenth-century India was no easy task. In the case of Muslim women, the task was even more difficult due to their triply marginal identity: as colonial subjects, as women, and as Muslims. Not only did the custom of purdah added to their seclusion from the social and cultural changes, their men hated everything about the western cultural influence (being displaced as rulers by the British). As a result, the middle class (the (…)

• Amending the Karnataka State Universities Act to implement NEP 2020 | P S Jayaramu

  9 January 2021

  by P. S. Jayaramu
  The Government of Karnataka appointed sometime ago a Committee headed by former DRDO Chairman Dr.Vasudev Atre to suggest amendments to the Karnataka State Universities Act,2000 ( KSU Act), wanting to be the first State to implement the New Education Policy 2020, with the Higher Education Minister, also the Deputy CM, Dr.Aswathnarayana keen on it. The Atre Committee is seized of the matter and will shortly submit its report. Here are some suggestions on some of the key (…)

• Whither American Democracy? Rioters stormed US Capitol, Washington, Jan. 6, 2021 | by M K Bhadrakumar

  9 January 2021, by M K Bhadrakumar

  by M. K. Bhadrakumar
  January 8, 2021
  In a poignant remark, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas reacted to the dramatic events in Washington, DC, on Wednesday — the storming of the Capitol building and President Donald Trump’s attempted coup — by recalling that Hitler’s seizure of total power started with the burning of the Reichstag in 1933. The apocalyptic imagery brings home how the outside world is looking at the United States.
  It will take decades before American officials can talk (…)

• Was Trump Hoping for a Coup? | Joseph Gerson

  9 January 2021

  by Joseph Gerson
  January 07, 2021
  There remain 13 potentially dangerous days before Biden is inaugurated
  U.S. Capitol police officers point their guns at a door that was vandalized in the House Chamber during a joint session of Congress on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress held a joint session today to ratify President-elect Joe Biden’s 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. A group of Republican senators said they would reject the Electoral College (…)

• Call it what it was: a coup attempt | Rebecca Solnit

  9 January 2021

  by Rebecca Solnit
  January 6, 2021
  On Wednesday, a coup attempt was led by the president of the United States. A rightwing mob attempted the coup in the form of a violent riot that stormed the Capitol building. They disrupted the proceedings that would have completed the recognition of the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Those proceedings had been disrupted earlier by elected officials bringing forth bad-faith claims that the election was not legitimate and should instead produce (…)

• Challenges for New President Joe Biden | Anil K Kanungo

  9 January 2021

  by Anil K Kanungo
  The verdict is clear Joe Biden is set to become 46th president of USA on January 20, 2021. He will become the nation’s oldest president, aged 78, and possesses nearly a half-century in elected office, including eight years as vice president and 36 years as Senate representative of Delaware. Kamala Harris will be the new vice president. All this have also signalled a strong message that amid continuous uproar and political disturbance, USA legal system could finally manage (…)

• Reflection on 2020 | Vijay Kumar

  9 January 2021

  by Vijay Kumar
  The year 2020 has been annus horribilis. The crisis arisen due to COVID-19 Pandemics is the one of the most unprecedented confronted by human kind in recorded history.
  One of the most enduring painful images that vividly crop up in the mind is the mass exodus of lakhs and lakhs of migrant workers after the decision of abrupt shutdown in less than four hours notice. The kind of migration with suffering and tragedy of Himalayan magnitude has not been seen after the mass (…)

• Science Awakning In India: Saga of A Journey | Gouri Sankar Nag & Manas Mukul Bandyopadhyay

  9 January 2021

  by Dr. Gouri Sankar Nag & Dr. Manas Mukul Bandyopadhyay Ancient Indian seers believed that the universe was composed of scientific laws and even the human body was full of science. In ancient times of the Vedic age, people had faith in eternal values like Satyam, Shivam and Sundaram (i.e. truth, god and beauty). It was a period when platonic abstractions and idealistic thought ruled the world but now information and communication technology is the summum bonum (…)