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  Farmers Need To Seen and Heard in The Capital - Letter to the Prime Minister of India | INSAF

  28 November 2020

  INDIAN SOCIAL ACTION FORUM (INSAF) A124/6, 1st floor, Katwaria Sarai, New Delhi 110 016 Tel: +91-11-40582589 Email:insafdelhi[at]gmail.com; insaf[at]vsnl.com Website: http://www.insafindia.com
  November 27th, 2020
  Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India
  Dear Shri Narendra Modi ji,
  Farmers have been marching towards Delhi from different states of India, including Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, determined to get their concerns on the new farm bills (…)

• Universal Basic Income in India Too? A Dialogue | Pulin B Nayak and Mark Lindley

  28 November 2020

  by Pulin B Nayak and Mark Lindley *
  Abstract
  Pulin (Formerly, Professor of Economics, DSE) praises a lecture by Mark (Professor of Eminence, MGMU) on UBI but says India cannot seriously consider implementing UBI, because certain other government tasks — including the availability of basic health facilities to all, effective implementation of the public distribution system, and better public education — need to be taken care of first. He sees Mark’s notion of using steep Pigouvian taxes (…)

• The other Nehru: Dams and nature’s economy | Mahesh Rangarajan

  28 November 2020

  by Mahesh Rangarajan
  16 November 2020
  India and the world of the 21st century have moved beyond the ideas of Jawaharlal Nehru. Environmental writers and activists have been prominent critics of his development model. More than any other speech, the one on big dams extolling them as ‘temples of modern India’ stand out in public memory.
  Critics of big dams point to the displacement and the loss of ecological amenity that have so often plagued large river valley schemes in India, Asia, (…)

• Increased Threat of Space Warfare | Bharat Dogra

  28 November 2020, by Bharat Dogra

  One of the most frightening aspects of our times is that the possibility of space warfare can become a reality. Although direct space warfare has not taken place so far, militarization of space has been increasing at several levels to such an extent that space warfare is no longer confined to fiction or games and the probability of this becoming a reality within the next decade is now quite high.
  Space warfare can take place in several forms. One object placed in space can attack, destroy, (…)

• The Morning Lesson | LK Sharma

  28 November 2020, by L K Sharma

  (The following for understanding Indian media without consulting learned American journals: Editor)
  Brahmamuhurt is the best time to learn. At that sacred hour before sunrise, the Goddess of wisdom is in a mood to give generously.
  This morning, as usual, my online education is making me information-rich and wiser.
  I learn that Anushka Sharma is pregnant and glowing. Sana Khan loved and married Anas for the sake of Allah. The marriage may seem crowded to some. But Sana wants (…)

• India: One Election - Cartoon | Jayaraj Vellur

  28 November 2020
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  The Institutional Life of Elections in India | Susan Sreemala

  28 November 2020

  BOOK REVIEW
  by Susan Sreemala *
  Election Commission of India: Institutionalising Democratic Uncertainties Authors : Ujjwal Kumar Singh, Anupama Roy Publisher: Oxford University Press, 09-Aug-2019 ISBN; 0199096961, 9780199096961 Length: 384 pages
  Intuitively, elections mediate democracy. They provide the apparatus of political representation in democracies and much has been said about the method, outcomes, and environments in which elections perform the legwork of democracy in India. (…)

• Rapping the “Token” Intellectuals of Pangal society | Md. Chingiz Khan

  28 November 2020

  by Md. Chingiz Khan *
  The multi-ethnic state of Manipur in north east India is home to different indigenous (yelhoumees) communities including the Meiteis, the Pangals, the Nagas and the Kukis. The Pangals speak Manipuri language as mother tongue like the Meiteis while the tribes such as Kukis and Nagas speak their own dialects. It is seemingly said that among the Pangals of Manipur, there are still lesser number of writers, poets, scholars, civil servants, historians and intellectuals. (…)

• India’s Policy Lapses and Security Concerns in Afghanistan | Manoj Kumar Mishra

  28 November 2020

  by Manoj Kumar Mishra *
  India has been confronting complex security challenges from unfavourable and complicated security scenario in Afghanistan which are characterised by the apparent failure of American-led war as well as peace and reconciliation efforts. The American stress on an exit policy fixing a specific time-line did not bring expected results in terms of peace dividends rather the Afghan Taliban became more resilient over the years and demanded complete withdrawal of (…)

• Taliban terrorism is back in Afghanistan - Peace process deadlocked over U.S. forces withdrawal terms | Sankar Ray

  28 November 2020

  by Sankar Ray
  (India Press Agency, November 7, 2020) Afghanistan’s Taliban militants have resumed their terrorising posture embarked, thereby frustrating the proponents of a sustainable milieu for peace. At the moment, they have exacerbated violence and intimidation to capture Kandahar, the capital for the hard-line movement nearly a quarter-century ago. Hundreds of insurgents, civilians, and soldiers are believed to have been killed while thousands of villagers have been displaced as a (…)