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• Biden’s victory a sign of warning for Narendra Modi | Arun Srivastava

  13 November 2020, by Arun Srivastava

  by Arun Srivastava
  In electing Biden, the American people have replaced a real estate developer and a self-seeker reality TV actor with a veteran and pragmatic politician with more than 50 years in public life. After four years of despotic rule the Americans must be feeling relieved. They yearned for getting rid of this comic and regressive administration is clearly manifest in unprecedented huge turnout of the voters. Their coming out in large number was simply a repudiation of a (…)

• Mass Education of Bengal: A critique on bi-centennial Birth Anniversary of Vidyasagar | AK Biswas

  13 November 2020, by A K Biswas

  “There is no man, who has not something hateful in him---no man who has not some of the wild beasts in him. But there are few who will honestly tell us how they manage their wild beast.” —Voltaire
  Part-I
  The role of Lord William Bentinck (14 September 1774 – 17 June 1839) for restructuring the socio-cultural foundation of the Hindus “debased by three thousand years of despotism and priestcraft” [1] can rarely be exaggerated. His bold move to ban and abolish the cruel practice of (…)

• Beyond Neoliberalism-What Paradigm Shift is Expected? | Anil Kumar Kanungo

  13 November 2020

  by Anil Kumar Kanungo
  World economy to a great degree in 21st century has witnessed a paradigm shift in its economic policy thinking. Global financial crisis seemed to have triggered this. Such policy shift came in the form of increasing role of the government having accorded priority over the frenzied pursuits of market reform and market economy. The notion that markets are usually a good way to organize economic activity came under a scanner to only suggest that government sometimes can (…)

• Death of Democratic Institutions: The Inevitable Logic of Neo-Liberal Political Economy and Abandonment of Directive Principles of State Policy | Justice (Retd) B. Sudershan Reddy

  13 November 2020

  First KG Kannabiran Commemoration Lecture on Law, Justice and Human Rights

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  Prof C P Bhambri’s long intellectual journey cames to an end | Radhakanta Barik

  13 November 2020, by Radhakanta Barik

  [Prominent Political Scientist Prof CP Bhambri who taught for decades at the Centre for Political Studies in JNU passed way on November 8, 2020. Here is a tribute from a former student of his]
  by Prof Radhakanta Barik (retd)
  In 1972 when we joined Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Prof Bhambri was an outstanding classroom teacher. Our MA class enjoyed his teaching. He was an articulate and erudite scholar. He could write in English and Hindi. In Dharmyug (the Hindi magazine) his (…)

• Online Education, Covid-19 and the Marginality | Showket Nabi

  13 November 2020

  by Showket Nabi *
  Covid-19 is a world-wide challenge. It affected almost every sphere of human life. When it comes to formal education it was the first to shut: schools, colleges and universities have been closed ever since the pandemic broke out. The students have been forced to stay home-bound for an extended period of time and stand out of sync with institutional education. Globally 1.2 billion children are out of the physical classrooms. Freedom of movement is curtailed to a (…)

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  Protection of press freedom and journalists’ rights in the state of UP - Letter from Editors Guild

  13 November 2020

  The Editors Guild of India
  November 09, 2020
  Sh. Yogi Adityanath Hon’ble Chief Minister Government of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister’s Secretariat Lok Bhawan, Vidhan Sabha Marg Lucknow-226001 Uttar Pradesh
  Subject: Protection of press freedom and journalists’ rights in the state of UP
  Sir,
  We are writing to urge you to address vital issues with respect to protecting press freedom and the rights and safety of working journalists, in the state of Uttar Pradesh. In the recent past, (…)

• Mining in Bundelkhand - Urgent Relief Needed for Workers | Bharat Dogra

  13 November 2020, by Bharat Dogra

  Bundelkhand region spread over 13 districts of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh is known for its mineral wealth in the form of stones for various types of construction work, river-sand considered to be of high quality for construction work, silica sand, rock phosphate and to a lesser extent diamonds ( in Panna district). Hence its mineral wealth is considered to be of great value particularly to the construction industry. If the mining and quarrying industry had been developed keeping in (…)

• Vivekananda – The Secular Swami | Ashok Celly

  13 November 2020, by Ashok Celly

  When Vivekananda arrived on the Indian scene, the British rule was in its heyday and the Indians were in a state of utter despair. Even the average Englishman in India considered himself lord and master of the world and treated Indians like dirt. Awed and intimidated by the foreign rulers, the Indian masses seemed to have lost all self-eastern and felt condemned to a life of everlasting servitude.
  Vivekananda a young man of great sensitivity and extra-ordinary energy felt he must do (…)

• Evening Thoughts | L K Sharma

  13 November 2020

  by L K Sharma
  They said this was HIS way of saving HIS Planet! By killing HIS people?
  It looked promising in the bright morning. The window encased clear green and sky blue.
  The scene unclouded by human smoke. Bird songs, clear and distinct, unmixed by human noise. Roads unsullied by dirty human feet. Stillness, undisturbed by human movement.
  Dance of Death stopped. The world rid of its domineering species and its ceaseless chatter and endless clutter.
  Not a soul, ugly or (…)