2021

IMPRESSIONS
Introspection has caught me. Week after week, I criticise our leaders. Is this right? After all, they are in power because they have the support of a majority of citizens. If I dislike them, it means I am in a minority. In the democracy that is India, the minority must yield to the majority. That is, I must swallow my minority view and submit to the majority view.
But minorities also must have their place in the sun. That is why I feel good about Anandavalli, a sweeper (…)

by Siby K. Joseph
The yearlong centenary commemoration of Chauri Chaura incident by the Government of India was started in February 2021.The Prime Minister of India formally inaugurated ‘Chauri Chaura’ Centenary Programme and saluted the brave martyrs of Chauri Chaura. He also released a postal stamp dedicated to the event via video conferencing on 4 February 2021. It was also reported that 1.4 lakh students across the State of Uttar Pradesh recited Vande Mataram while standing in salute (…)

by Nazia Khan *
Abstract
Myanmar emerged as the promising state in the twentieth-century as it not only released Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest but ushered into political and economic reforms. The adoption of the 2008 Constitution and political and economic reforms brought an end to the military junta rule. The end of the military -junta rule has not ended the influence of the military within the government. While Myanmar is transitioning into a democracy, it is also facing (…)

Ahmedabad hosts a Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram, the iconic monument where values and foundation of Indian democracy evolved through decades of Freedom movement. Now the city also hosts five star Narendra Modi stadium at Motera ground, a new monument named after our seven star prime minister. One can say, Indian democracy which grew at Gandhi Ashram is now ceremoniously buried at Modi stadium, both separated by just 14 minutes of car drive and 66 minutes walk if you were to march in Gandhiji’s (…)

by Prof. Nand. L Dhameja *
The term Bad Bank is a misnomer, it is a bank or a financial institution to bring health to an institution which has gone bad or is having financial problems., It follows a process of writing off or removing distressed assets from the organisation. Many organisations have accumulated losses or carrying on various item which do not have economic value.
UP Government, like other State Governments, waived off Rs. 35,000 crore by way of Kisan Rahat Bonds. In the (…)

The unlimited procurement of wheat and rice at MSP by Food Corporation of India (FCI) since 1970 has proved a decisive incentive to farmers in achieving self-sufficiency in cereals. Wheat procurement at MSP is going on in Punjab and Haryana over last 50 years and other states like Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh have joined in the last 10 years which has given boost to their wheat production. Similarly, the procurement of rice was mainly in the State of Punjab, Andhra Pradesh/ Telangana and (…)

by * Saumitra Mohan
When people of different hues and denominations are participating in diverse kinds of protest movements all across the globe for the deemed and purported onslaughts on human rights and freedoms notwithstanding the incursions of a deadly pandemic, the world around us has been changing stealthily without most of us ever realizing the same. While it was an intense Darwinian ‘Survival of the Fittest’ struggle which saw the victory and ascendancy of the Homo sapiens in the (…)

February 28, 2021
They zoomed, friends from everywhere,
Just to make an eighty-year old wanted.
The eighty-year old no longer felt
Hollowed as a house haunted.
Tailoring away for decades
At cut-pieces of sanity and brawl,
Their words of love made my stitching
Worthwhile and whole.
What better abode to rest in finally
Than the memories of friends?
The zoom poured manna into my soul,
And for my failings made amends.
They may not know but they left the meet
With a basketful (…)

Talk about the environment, you are a traitor.
Speak about the farmers’ protest, you are an anti-national.
Talk in the Elgar Parishad, you are an extremist.
Writers and poets, why are you write about the farmers?
Why are you speak about the Dalits?
Why are you sing about the Muslims?
Don’t you know they are terrorists?
Don’t you know they hatch conspiracies to tarnish Hindustan?
Don’t you want to see we make Bharat a Ramraj?
Whose side are you on? we ask you.
The (…)

by Arun Srivastava
The Indian "middle class" is usually classified in three categories– the "aspirational middle-class", the "affluent middle class", and the "middle-middle class". Notwithstanding differences in their sectoral approach the fact remains that the middle class in general is the most selfish and self-centred section of the society. This class is generally viewed as the vanguard for the economic development and growth of the country, but an analysis of their class character (…)