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• Reckless pursuit of linking rivers can result in ecological havoc | Bharat Dogra

  21 January 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  For a long time, a gigantic and recklessly ambitious project proposed in India for linking about 37 rivers at 30 or more places had been largely dormant. Things started moving in its favor after the 2014 elections and the installation of the NDA government. Within about two years this project had been pushed ahead quite a bit. Now with the Cabinet approval being granted to the first sub-project of the wider national project called Ken-Betwa Link Project (KBLP) in Central India on December (…)

• Significance of a Human Security Approach for Global Peace and Development | Manoj Kumar Mishra

  21 January 2022

  by Manoj Kumar Mishra *
  The concept of human security was articulated by Pakistani scholar Mahbub ul Haq in 1994 when he drew attention to the concept in the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Human Development Report. Henceforth, human security became a part of academic discourse and the concept required a shift of focus from the physical security of a state to socio-economic security and development of its citizens along with their personal, civil and physical security.
  This (…)

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  Press Release - Letter to CEO, Prasar Bharti seeking the Restoration of Urdu News Bulletins on DD Urdu

  21 January 2022

  PRESS RELEASE
  The following letter was sent to CEO, Prasar Bharti today regarding the Restoration of Urdu News Bulletins on DD Urdu - - Forwarded message - - - From: shabnam hashmi: shabnamhashmi[at]gmail[dot]com Date: Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 2:55 PM Subject: Restoration of Urdu news Bulletins on DD Urdu To: CEO Prasar Bharti: shashi[at]prasarbharati[dot]gov[dot]in, ceo[at]prasarbharati[dot]gov[dot]in Cc: Syeda Hameed: hameed.syeda[at]gmail[dot]com
  Mr Shashi S Vempati Chief Executive (…)

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  Shutting down of the Kashmir Press Club | Statement by Editors Guild of India, Jan 18, 2022

  21 January 2022

  The Editors Guild of India is deeply anguished by the shutting down of the Kashmir Press Club by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir, on January 17, 2022

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  Will Yogi Adityanath get to rule India? | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  21 January 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
  Yogi Adityanath: Religion, Politics and Power - The Untold Story
  by Sharat Pradhan and Atul Chandra
  Penguin Random House
  288 Pages
  Nov/2021
  ISBN: 9780143442431
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  Will Yogi Adityanath be the Prime Minister of India one day? Does the monk-turned-Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, qualify for the coveted job? If journalists Sharat Pradhan and Atul Chandra are to be believed, this could become a possibility; in any case, Adityanath, (…)

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  The Origin of Democracy, Socialism and Fascism | Sukumaran C.V.

  21 January 2022, by Sukumaran C.V.

  BOOK REVIEW
  One of the most pernicious aspects of standard world-historical narratives is precisely that they dry everything up, reduce people to cardboard stereotypes, simplify the issues in ways that themselves undermine, possibly even destroy, our sense of human possibility....One problem with evolutionism is that it takes ways of life that developed in symbiotic relation with each other and reorganizes them into separate stages of human history. By the late nineteenth century, it was (…)

• Taking Leave | Sagari Chhabra

  21 January 2022, by Sagari Chhabra

  My child asks, ‘when leaves fall do they cry?’
  ‘Not that I know’, I reply.
  ‘Then do they sigh?’
  They rustle in the wind
  and feed the microbes
  invisible as a djinn.
  They nourish the soil
  in which the tree is grounded,
  this is what in nature, is founded.
  We are surrounded
  by interbeing,
  interlinked, without ever seeing.
  The leaves do not die,
  they only change appearances,
  without so much as a sigh.
  In the beginning it is seen,
  the leaves are green;
  then they turn
  as they (…)

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  Caricature: Rosa Luxemburg | Jayaraj Vellur

  21 January 2022
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  Caricature: Tribute to Birju Maharaj | Jayaraj Vellur

  21 January 2022

• Black holes: we think we’ve spotted the mysterious birth of one | Daniel Perley

  21 January 2022

  January 12, 2022
  Astronomers are increasingly drawing back the curtains on black holes. In the past few years, we have finally captured actual photos of these fearsome creatures and measured the gravitational waves – ripples in spacetime – that they create when colliding. But there’s still a lot we don’t know about black holes. One of the biggest enigmas is exactly how they form in the first place.
  My colleagues and I now believe we have observed this process, providing some of the best (…)