2021

EMAILED on 04/10/2021 at 3:03 PM
Dated: 04.10.2021
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Major General S.G. Vombatkere, VSM (Retd) 410, ‘Aspen’ Sankalp Central Park Yadavagiri Mysuru-570020 Email: sg9kere[at]live.com; Tel:(0821)2975187
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Hon’ble Governor of the State of Haryana ;
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Hon’ble President of India presidentofindia[at]rb.nic.in; secy.president[at]rb.nic.in
Subject: Incitement To Violence by Chief Minister Of Haryana
Respected Hon’ble Governor of the State of (…)

MUSINGS
6 October, 2021
Foremost, let us stop focusing on the horrific happenings taking place in foreign lands and neighboring counties. Let us concentrate on the build-ups here, within our country. In fact, even the fence-sitters have been left near speechless, with no adequate words to comment on the recent brutal killings of our people in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri. Going by the videos in circulation, the farmers were crushed, mowed down, trampled upon and killed by political (…)

In recent decades India has heard a lot about such appealing, consoling programs like the Ganga Action Plan, the Yamuna Action Plan, the National River Conservation Plan and finally Namami Gange. So it is all the more disturbing to know from recent reports and other indicators that the problem of river pollution remains serious, endangering health of human beings and even threatening the survival of several forms of life in and around rivers.
In 2018 the Central Pollution Control Board (…)

October 1, 2021
BERLIN—Germany’s long election campaign, full of ups and downs, marked the end of 16 more or less placid years with Angela Merkel, 67, and her “Christian double party” (CDU and CSU) known as the “Union” (though the Christian Democratic Union’s Bavarian component, the Christian Social Union, stays somewhat separate). Until now it had joined up with the Social Democrats (SPD) as increasingly uncomfortable junior partners. But now, without Angela, her unlucky Union followers (…)

INDIAN DOCTORS FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT 139- E, Kitchlu Nagar Ludhiana
Date: 30.09.2021
Press release on National Digital Health Mission (NDHM)
The National Digital Health Mission Will in no way help in improving health of our people
Albeit it will be another mechanism for surveillance by the state through personal data collection on health - IDPD
Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) has expressed its grave concern on National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) recently (…)

by Manoj Kumar Mishra *
A new great game like scenario with multiple players being coerced or cajoled to join either US or China with enhanced militarization of Indo-Pacific seems to be in the offing. As Washington steps up its efforts in the region with building more confidence among allies and swinging the neutral states to its side, China would seek to challenge the changing regional order. There are many nuclear powers which are party to the game with North Korea recently claiming (…)

by Prof Radhakanta Barik (retd)*
Why does Modi’s BJP want to appropriate Gandhi. The Congress’s ideological roots lies in the tradition of Gandhi- Nehru. They are attacking Nehru from the beginning. They want one portion of the tradition that is Gandhi. Politics of Swach Bharat is carrying Gandhi’s symbol. They feel that Gandhi is a difficult nut to break. Gandhi’s concept of non violence and passive resistance have been used by Dalits, minorities to oppose the BJP. This year’s celebration (…)

’Aag Musalsal Jehan Mein Lagi Hogi Yunhi Koi aag mein jala nahi hoga’ ( The fire must have been lit in the head/minds Nobody will burn without any such thing)
A video of a photographer jumping on the dead body of a hapless ’encroacher’ from Assam has gone viral.
By the time you read these lines the photographer must have been out on bail and being celebrated / glorified in the rightwing circles for expressing his ’true self’, his ’manliness’ against - what a leading custodian of the (…)

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India – A Federal Union of States: Fault Lines, Challenges and Opportunities
Madhav Godbole
Konark
Pages: 358; Price: Rs 800
ISBN: 978-81-949286-1-4
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India as a federal union faces a litany of challenges but none as serious as one caused by mixing of religion with politics, a development that has contributed to the ballooning of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). So says former Home Secretary Madhav Godbole, who quit the government after the razing of the Babri (…)

The Indian Civil Service and Indian Foreign Policy, 1923–1961
by Amit Das Gupta
Routledge
2021 xvi + 314 pp
ISBN 978-1-138-06424-9
see also Routledge India
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Reviewed by Sumit Ganguly (Indiana University)
Published on H-Asia (June, 2021)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
There has long been a voluminous literature on India’s postindependence foreign policy. However, at least three recent developments have significantly leavened the (…)