2022

Reviewd by P.S. Jayaramu
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Remodelling the Universities:
Meeting Challenges of the 21st Century
by Srinivas K. Saidapur
(New Delhi, Atlantic Publishers, 2022, Pages189, Hard Bound, Price Rs. 795)
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(30th September, 2022)
The author of this book Dr. Srinivas K. Saidapur is a well known Scientist, thinker and educational administrator, having served Karnatak University, Dharwad, for long years as Professor of Zoology and Vice Chancellor. He is the recipient of many (…)

In his preface to a recent collection of articles on ‘Authoritarian Populism’, Douglas Kellner observed: “Since the Brexit referendum in U. K., the election of Donald Trump in the 2016 U. S. election, and the rise of right-wing populist movements throughout the globe, there has been intense focus on authoritarian populism on a global scale…Trump has neither the well-articulated party apparatus, nor the full-blown ideology of the Nazis, and thus more resembles the phenomena of authoritarian (…)

BOOK REVEIW
Reporting India: My Seventy-Year Journey as a Journalist
by Prem Prakash (ANI)
Publishers: Ebury Press (Penguin Random House) Pages: 225; Price: Rs 699 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 067009398X ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0670093984 __0__
Jawaharlal looked so tired after the 1962 war with China that he almost fell asleep while answering questions from journalist Prem Prakash. “I had to touch him gently to wake him up and tell him I could not present the Indian prime minister to the world in that (…)

* Uniqueness of Habib Tanvir’s theatre | Javed Malick
* Pakistan - India: Recent Floods and Climate Change | Soma Marla
* Ecosystem-Based Approach to Build Climate Resilience | KN Ninan
* Bill Gates and Techno-fix Delusions | M V Ramana and Cassandra Jeffery

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 17 – Oct 8, 2022
India is a very diverse multilingual society and whatever their location most people in their daily lives seem to have a real familiarity with more than one language, irrespective of what the law says. The Constitution of India reflects this reality with 22 languages having formal recognition in its eighth schedule. Every now and then political tensions erupt over the question of language of instruction, official language of (…)

by K N Ninan
Abstract: Climate change poses a great challenge to governments, societies, and entities. Finding ways to transit to a climate resilient economy and society therefore assumes great importance. Evidence collated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) point to an increasing trend in global temperatures and sea levels, increasing frequency and intensity of disasters and extreme weather events. These will have adverse short and long-term impacts on ecosystems, (…)

by Pranjit Agarwala
Recently the Union Minister of State for Finance Dr. Bhagwad Karad informed the Rajya Sabha that from 2017/18 to 2021/22 the NDA government had written-off a whopping Rs. 9,91,640 crores of bad bank loans. This is over four times what the UPA government wrote-off. The UPA government wrote-off Rs. 2,20,328 crores from 2004 to 2014. Apparently the NDA government has been indulging in a bad loans write-off spree. In banking parlance such loans are known as (…)

by Muzban Jal
In the last few years there have been voices heard that murmur of what is called the “civilization state”. From philosophers, defense experts, and vice chancellors posing as public intellectuals, paeans are being sung to this theme. But what this exactly is, we are not told.
While very loosely what is meant by the civilization state is rooting politics in general—including the Constitutions of nations—on civilizational “essences”, what is left out from imagination is that (…)

by Javed Malick
The folk component and flavor in Habib Tanvir’s theatre was too obvious and unmistakable for anyone to miss. But what was often not appreciated sufficiently was that he did not try to revive or resurrect any specific form of the folk play but developed a categorically modern form of Indian theatre with traditional flavour. For, what distinguished Tanvir’s theatre from that of his contemporaries was precisely this combination of Modernity and tradition.
Tanvir was an (…)

Undeniably, Indo-Pak cricket matches are viewed by citizens of both countries with great passion. There is no denying Indo-Pak enmity still prevails at various levels and their cricket matches are seen by certain sections as virtually equivalent to a war between the two countries. The Indo-Pak cricket match leading reportedly to tension in Leicester (United Kingdom) was held on August 28 in Dubai (UAE). It was watched in most parts of world, including Indian sub-continent. Leicester has been (…)