2022

On March 30, 2022, the International Monetary Fund published the Review of the Institutional View on the Liberalization and Management of Capital Flows. The review updates the IMF’s Institutional View (IV), adopted in November 2012, followed by guidance notes on capital flows added in April 2013 and December 2015. The IMF’s Institutional View is an important policy document because it provides an analytical framework for the Fund’s policy advice on liberalizing and managing capital flows. (…)

Tenth Report Of The Concerned Citizens’ Group
15 April 2022
The Concerned Citizens’ Group made its tenth visit to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) from March 20 to 25, 2022. The visit took place after the Delimitation Commission had made its report public which led to considerable consternation amongst the political parties in the Union Territory, especially those in the Kashmir Valley. It also took place in the immediate aftermath of the release of “The Kashmir Files” a film that was being (…)

IMPRESSIONS
Amit Shah has cultivated the image of a clever politician. May be he is clever. May be not. The stance on Hindi that he announced a few days ago showed no signs of cleverness. It showed how he could wade into an emotional issue, make a mess of it with his politicking, and gain nothing in the end.
Hindi, he said, should act as India’s link language. Mahatma Gandhi said that, too. Where the Mahatma failed, can Amit Shah succeed? The Hindi issue is immersed in (…)

Among the builders of modem India, Babu Jagjivan Ram was an important personality. His thought, speech, and action helped shape our country’s future. Babuji made his first appearance in the people movement in 1928 as part of the mazdoor rally at wellington square, Kolkata; He made his first appearance on the national panorama during the freedom movement as a learned, meritorious leader and social reformer from a subaltern section of the Society in 1932. Once, he said, "India is a storehouse (…)

The loss in the bypolls will send an alarm signals to the saffron camp
The massive erosion in vote share for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in bypolls in both Asansol Loksabha and Ballygunge assembly in West Bengal have kept the saffron camp aggrieved with just around two years left for the next parliamentary election in 2024.
But central leadership of BJP is not disquieted about the decline of vote sharing in all, the elections from Municipal Corporation to the bypolls. Since the (…)

Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Politburo member Brinda Karat deserves our salute for rising up to the occasion and demonstrating what real leaders are made of.
Ever since the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won elections in four out of five states where it was politically relevant, including UP, which went to polls in February-March this year and the Congress lost in all the four states where it was in direct fight with the BJP, the upbeat mood of the victors has translated (…)

by Sandeep Pandey and Pankaj Pushkar
Dimapur Conclave for ‘Save the Peace,’ organized by Naga People’s Movement for Human Rights on 25-26 March, 2022, adopted the following resolution: Indo-Naga political talks must be supported and protected till it achieves the desirable goal of honourable and lasting peace for both the parties in talks. The Framework Agreement signed on August 3, 2015 at Delhi is a solemn commitment between the Naga people and the Government of India (…)

by Gopal Krishna *
The audit of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) by Comptroller Auditor General (CAG) of India revealing “flaws in the management of various contracts entered into by UIDAI” reminds one of a case related to a RTI reply that partially revealed the content of MoU/ Contract executed between UIDAI with L1 Identity Solutions Operating Company, currently a subsidiary of French conglomerate Safran Group, Sagem Morpho Security Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of Safran Group, (…)

Contemporary documents of the brutal massacre and people’s heroic resistance remain hidden in boxes of National Archives
India has turned into a grazing field for all kinds of religious bigots led by the Hindutva gang. Even PM of the country who took oath to uphold democratic-secular polity is identifying himself as a Hindu nationalist as if he is in office to serve the cause of Hindutva. The RSS/BJP rulers are openly declaring their commitment to turn India into a Hindu state where (…)

BOOK REVIEW by M.R. Narayan Swamy
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Trumpet Calls:
Epic Tales of Extraordinary Elephants
Nalini Ramachandran
Hachette India
Pages: 242; Price: Rs 350
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 939102890X ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9391028909 __0__
Elephants have been caught and tamed from as early in history as 6000 BCE. And the practice of training them to fight in wars began in India around 1000 BCE. So many were trained to fight with deadly effect that King (…)