2021

by Nupur Choudhary *
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In Defence of the Ordinary: Everyday Awakenings by Dev Nath Pathak
2021, 276 Pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9390358175 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9390358175 Bloomsbury
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This insightful, demonstrative, and lively account of experiences and stories addresses a wide range of readers. The book breaks the confines of academic structures and envisions an ordinary. Opening through its intrepid preface, the author’s attempt to visualize ordinariness gets highlighted in every (…)

DR. SHASHl THAROOR Member Of Parliament (Lok Sabha). Thiruvananthapuram Chairman. Information Technology Committee of Parliament
December 6, 2021
STATEMENT
Since the revamp of parliament’s two television channels in August this year, I have been proud and privileged to host a talk show on Sansad TV, "To The Point". The show permitted me to engage in meaningful conversations with significant figures of our non-political public life, ranging from sitar maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan Sahib (…)

December 10, 2021
Today, programs were held in 25 states to mark International Human Rights Day as part of a nation-wide campaign titled ’Reimagining India- Campaign to Uphold Human and Constitutional Rights’.
In Delhi, a public meeting was held at Mandi House where nearly 500 people from different walks of life raised issues and concerns of human rights. At the public meeting, groups and networks highlighted issues of attacks on human rights defenders, undermining of institutions of (…)

by Mandeep Lama *
(A) The Setting
Although Buddhism spread among the Asian countries in a peaceful manner, which is remarkable when we remember the devastating Crusades and Jihads of The European Middle Ages, it cannot lay claim to ideological harmony among its various schools. In fact doctrinal differences, two of which had surfaced even during the life of the Buddha, were responsible for the rise of various schools of Buddhism.[[ The first of the two dissensions that arose during the (…)

by Dr R.G.Gidadhubli *
Russia-Ukraine bilateral ties have been worsening and conflicts persisting during the last nearly a decade. The conflict seems to be aggravating again. This is evident from the fact that in November 2021 the president of Ukraine Mr. Volodymyr Zelenskiy has accused Russia on several grounds. He has stated on 26th November that Russia was sending ‘very dangerous signals’ with military troop movements on the border with Ukraine, which from his perspective was a threat (…)

by Ruth Stewart and Carina van Rooyen *
November 24, 2021
The world around us, and the way researchers study and understand it, changes all the time. The constant change means that what we know through science also shifts.
Take the airborne nature of SARS-CoV-2: early in the COVID-19 pandemic key advisory groups, such as the World Health Organisation, assumed that respiratory droplets were the dominant mode of transmission. This led to advice on and practices of social distancing, (…)

Dec 8, 2021
Pakistani political and military leaders have vowed to eradicate ultra-conservative religious extremism that drove a mob to torture, brutally lynch a Sri Lankan national, and burn his body in the eastern city of Sialkot. Some 900 cases have been filed with police and 235 people arrested in connection with the killing.
"Let me make this clear: I have decided that from now we will not spare those who resort to violence in the name of religion, especially in the name of the Holy (…)

by Monica Cordero Diana Cariboni Lou Ferreira *
3 December 2021
Groups behind a Supreme Court test case that threatens the constitutional right to abortion in the US are targeting Europe and Latin America too
US conservative groups behind a Supreme Court legal battle that could shape the future of American abortion rights have spent at least $28m [1] around the world between 2016 and 2019, openDemocracy reveals today. These groups have engaged in numerous international campaigns (…)

* Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Dec 4, 2021
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* Oppose Call for Blasphemy Law | IMSD Press Release
* Radio Play: The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, December 4, 2021
The Prime Minister had on the eve of the Winter Session of Parliament signalled that the Government was open to discussing all issues. The session began on November 29, with the government according top priority to the repeal of Farm laws that it had introduced one year ago and which had faced major opposition by the farmer’s protest movement. The opposition parties in Parliament objected to the lack of discussion around the Farm Laws (…)