Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, November 6, 2021
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise announcement at the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) UN conference in Glasgow, that India will achieve net-zero emissions of fossil carbon (...)
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Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 6, 2021
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Barunda - a tribute
5 November 2021, by Sankar RayThe end of mundane innings of Barun Das Gupta screeched a four-decade long association of mine to a permanent halt and Barunda like Jollyda- Jolly Mohan Kaul, an outstanding communist in the pre-split CPI– was a cricket lover who used to be glued (...) -
Gautam Navlakha shifted to high isolation zone in Prison - An open letter from Sahba Husain
5 November 2021Gautam Navlakha, nearly 70, is one of the oldest of the Bhima Koregaon arrestees, who was shifted to the “Anda Circle” (high security) from the barracks on October 12, 2021. Additionally, his telephone calls to me and his lawyers, his lifeline to (...) -
The Pathology of Standardized ‘Objective” Tests | Avijit Pathak
5 November 2021, by Avijit PathakIt seems our academic bureaucrats and policymakers have forgotten the basic truth about the experience of learning and unlearning—wonder and awakening, or critical thinking and creative imagination. Or is it that they think that there is nothing (...) -
Japan’s imperial system faces existential crisis | Rajaram Panda
5 November 2021, by Rajaram PandaIntroduction
Since the return of commoner Kei Komuro to Japan from the United States after a period of studying law, the talks of his impending wedding with his college girl friend Princess Mako, the eldest granddaughter of Emeritus Emperor (...) -
Weep For The Women In Afghanistan | TJS George
5 November 2021, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
The greatest cookery advice came from, who else, the Chinese. It said: "Excess marks the amateur; subtlity signals the master chef. No ingredient must yield to another. Each should stand out proud and glorious."
Distilled (...) -
Women at COPs: Journey So Far | Shweta Prasad
5 November 2021by Shweta Prasad *
Abstract The beginning of the COP 26 in Glasgow is a moment to pause for a minute and do a stock-taking of various commitments that need to go into the discussion related to emission cut and maintaining global warming at 1.5 (...) -
The Taliban originated in Afghanistan, Not Pakistan | Apratim Mukarji
5 November 2021, by Apratim MukarjiFor long Afghanistan scholars had supported the theory, promoted by the Taliban themselves and Pakistan, that their particular brand of jihadism was developed in Afghan refugee camps in Baluchistan. New data brought forward by an Indian scholar (...) -
Kudos to cricketer Virat Kohli for shooing away hate mongers | Humra Quraishi
5 November 2021, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
3 November 2021
First things first. Salaams and salutes to Captain Virat Kohli. He comes across as a true player and also a committed captain. The manner in which he dealt his team’s defeat in the recent World Cup matches and the (...) -
Religious ultra-conservatism has a field day in Pakistan | James M. Dorsey
5 November 2021by James M. Dorsey
Oct 30
Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatism is having a field day.
Barely three months after the Taliban claimed victory in Afghanistan, Pakistan, the second most populous Muslim-majority state, is moving to join Kabul in becoming (...)
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