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• Envisioning Health Mobility in India

  11 December 2016

  by Pradeep Nair
  This article attempts to envision the vivifi-cation of the health sector with the substructure of technological, digital and mobile revolution in the country. The healthcare sector is the primary service provider and welfare set-up which also contributes largely to the Indian economy in terms of revenue and employment generation. The growing outreach of the digital technology and mobile phones would change the face and scope of the health services and its delivery. It would (…)

• India and the South China Sea Dispute

  11 December 2016

  by Supriya Sharma
  The Hague’s Arbitration Tribunal on July 12 clearly backed the Philippines on the issue of the South China Sea (SCS) dispute. It also declared large parts of the South China Sea as international waters and a few as other countries’ Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs). India stood in support of The Hague’s ruling as it believed that the international law should always be abided.
  Apart from being a member of the UNCLOS, there are three large reasons why India needs to play a (…)

• LEMOA: Dark Cloud over Indian Sovereignty

  11 December 2016

  by Abhimanyu Kohar
  Today in the 21st century it is not easy to directly put a nation under slavery. But for the last 20 years, various Western agendas and treaties of powerful nations are indirectly driving the weaker nations to slavery. Amidst such agendas, there is a new treaty, LEMOA, under which America can deploy its soldiers at any place at any time in India. Nobody has any realisation of the problems we have invited after signing this treaty. After concluding this ‘Logistic Exchange (…)

• Maoist Killings in Malkangiri

  11 December 2016

  by Suranjita Ray
  For the last few decades now, Malkangiri district1 of Western Odisha has remained a concern of the governments both at the Centre as well as in the State. It not only ranks last in the indices of development and figures at the top for acute malnutrition, but more recently it has also seen horrors such as that of a father forced to walk six kilometres with the body of his 10-year-old daughter after the ambulance left them midway. Moreover, Malkangiri has seen an increasing (…)

• How do Women Regain their Lost Glory?

  11 December 2016

  WOMEN’S WORLD
  by Fayezah Iqbal
  In a world stupefied with the mantras of ‘feminism’ and ‘women emancipation’, no wonder if the women are infatuated with the thought of gaining respect and dignity only by competing with men. In the words of the famous American psychologist, Timothy Leary, ‘The women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.’ So here we are, in an era saturated and congealed with notions of women liberation and gender justice, where women have somewhere forgotten the (…)

• Myth of Women Empowerment in the Panchayats of Haryana

  11 December 2016

  by Ranbir Singh and Kushal Pal
  The prescription of educational qualifications by the Government of Haryana in the 2016 elections for contesting to the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) has been reported to be a game-changer. (Kundu, 2016) Although only 33.33 per cent posts of sarpanches have been reserved for women, as many as 41.46 per cent of them were able to become sarpanches in the 2016 Haryana Panchayat elections. Among them the representation of the general castes was 50.79 per (…)

• Grim Warning from Bhopal

  11 December 2016, by Nikhil Chakravartty

  From N.C.’s Writings
  It was a massacre of innocents by all counts. What happened at the Union Carbide plant at Bhopal in the early morning of December 3 was not just a tragedy but a heinous crime which killed nearly two thousand and hospitalised countless others, brings out something much more ghastly than the hazards of modern industrialisation.
  The enormity of the crime—unprecedented in our times—lies not merely in any negligence on the part of the workers and superintending staff (…)

• Human Rights: Basic Issues

  11 December 2016, by Nikhil Chakravartty

  Human Rights Day is observed on December 10 every year commemorating the day, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To mark the occasion we are reproducing the following article N.C. wrote twentyfour years ago.
  The government’s decision to set up a National Human Rights Commission is a significant indication of its being able to read the signs of the times. The Prime Minister has made the eloquent claim about his government’s (…)

• Globalisation and Social Movement: Critique of a Critique

  11 December 2016

  by Babika Khawas
  In an attempt to analyse the relationship between globalisation and social movement this brief communiqué attempts to comment critically on the cliché—that itself emerged as a critique—anti-globalisation movement. As is well known, globalisation as a stupendous process has transformed everyday social reality by opening up newer avenues secured through the rapid flow of capital, technology, information, trade, ideas and other resources across the national borders. Social (…)

• Recession Exposes Demonetisation’s Dark Side

  11 December 2016, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS
  Tuesday afternoon I was in and around New Delhi’s posh Khan Market. Usually this marketplace is more than crowded, with locals and foreigners not just shopping but stuffing themselves in the various eateries, but that afternoon (November 29) it was as though a vacancy of sorts had enveloped the entire stretch. The sellers and buyers looked glum. After all, the year is ending on a dismal note!
  I did get to notice at least two rather strange developments: buyers with a two thousand (…)