2021

Corey J. A. Bradshaw et al ’Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future’ in: Front. Conserv. Sci. 1:615419. doi: 10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419

* Letter to the Readers - Mainstream, Jan 9, 2021
* Too Much Democracy, Mr Kant, Or Too Little? | Avay Shukla
* Modi government getting ready to confront the farmers | Arun Srivastava
* India in a Scissors Crisis | Shubham Sharma

Letter to the Readers
January 6, 2021, will go down as a black day in the history of American Democracy. On this day the elected representatives to the US Congress and Senate were to meet at the Capitol Hill in a joint session to certify the election of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States. Hours before the beginning of the session President Donald Trump — spoke at a rally "Save America March," of his supporters in Washington DC, where he made repeated claims of voter fraud (…)

by Avay Shukla
2 January 2021
So now we finally know why the Modi govt. has messed up the Farm Bills issue big time: it has advisors like Mr. Kant who no doubt firmly believe that a few more jackboots on peasant throats would have made them gladly swallow the legislation without any demur. And, for all we know, he’s the one who is also advising our resident sage: " We kant back down now!"
Amitav Kant is one of the most powerful and influential policy makers in the present (…)

by Arun Srivastava
After 40 days of peaceful nonviolent satyagraha, a situation reminiscent of the famous 1942 “Do or Die” movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi, is fast emerging on the political horizon with the farmers’ not willing to accept anything below scrapping of three black farm laws and providing legal status to the MSP acquiring a new dimension and dynamics.
If it was the reluctance of the Britishers to listen to the Indian voice that forced Mahatma Gandhi in 1942 to give the (…)

by Shubham Sharma
December 31, 2020
India, a modern-day bourgeois democracy with socialism sitting uncomfortably in the Preamble, neither faces a civil war nor an invasion of states. Its problems are self-generated. The twin blades of economic and political crisis have been self sharpened by the government on the whetstones of indifferent governance, communalism, and neo-liberal capitalism.
India is in a ‘scissors crisis’. The phrase was employed first, and duly plotted on a graph by a (…)

by Ishrat Mushtaq and Sajad Hassan Khan *
Women’s education in nineteenth-century India was no easy task. In the case of Muslim women, the task was even more difficult due to their triply marginal identity: as colonial subjects, as women, and as Muslims. Not only did the custom of purdah added to their seclusion from the social and cultural changes, their men hated everything about the western cultural influence (being displaced as rulers by the British). As a result, the middle class (the (…)

by P. S. Jayaramu
The Government of Karnataka appointed sometime ago a Committee headed by former DRDO Chairman Dr.Vasudev Atre to suggest amendments to the Karnataka State Universities Act,2000 ( KSU Act), wanting to be the first State to implement the New Education Policy 2020, with the Higher Education Minister, also the Deputy CM, Dr.Aswathnarayana keen on it. The Atre Committee is seized of the matter and will shortly submit its report. Here are some suggestions on some of the key (…)

by M. K. Bhadrakumar
January 8, 2021
In a poignant remark, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas reacted to the dramatic events in Washington, DC, on Wednesday — the storming of the Capitol building and President Donald Trump’s attempted coup — by recalling that Hitler’s seizure of total power started with the burning of the Reichstag in 1933. The apocalyptic imagery brings home how the outside world is looking at the United States.
It will take decades before American officials can talk (…)

by Joseph Gerson
January 07, 2021
There remain 13 potentially dangerous days before Biden is inaugurated
U.S. Capitol police officers point their guns at a door that was vandalized in the House Chamber during a joint session of Congress on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress held a joint session today to ratify President-elect Joe Biden’s 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. A group of Republican senators said they would reject the Electoral College (…)