Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 9, 2023
New Delhi is hosting the G-20 summit from 8 - 10 September, 2023, its preparations have drowned the city into a spectacle of garish, flashy, and kitsch. A big militarised ‘beautification’ for G20 in (...)
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Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 9, 2023
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My Vision of India: 2047 | Justice AP Shah (25th Borker Memorial Lecture)
9 September 2023* This is the text of the 25th D. S. Borker Memorial Lecture delivered by the author at the India International Centre, New Delhi on 24 August 2023. * D. S. Borker was a distinguished civil servant in whose memory the D S Borker Memorial (...) -
As laws expand their reach in India, political freedoms shrink | Anushka Singh
9 September 2023Laws restricting basic freedoms may be made in the name of public order and national security, but they are often used against dissident voices.
Three bills were tabled in the Indian Parliament in August, part of an overhaul of the entire (...) -
Court Handbook: A Step Forward for Gender Just Society | Ram Kumar Thakur, Kaushiki Arha
9 September 2023The Supreme Court of India under Chief Justice, Justice D. Y Chandrachud recently released a landmark document titled Handbook on Combating Gender Stereotypes. The handbook is supposed to serve as dossier of referral for judges and legal (...) -
Promote communal harmony, instead of abetting its deterioration - Letter to the Chief Minister of Haryana | Binoy Viswam
9 September 2023, by Binoy ViswamBinoy Viswam Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) 116, North Avenue New Delhi - 110 001 Mob: 9605766702 E-mail: binoyviswam55[at]gmail.com
To, Shri Manohar Lal Khattar, Chief Minister, Government of Haryana
Date: 28th August, 2023
Respected Shri (...) -
Security, integrity secondary to BJP’s communal considerations in J&K and Manipur | Faraz Ahmad
9 September 2023, by Faraz AhmadIt is now abundantly clear that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP government have no intention of restoring Article 370 and 35A through which our Constitution framers gave certain special distinctive powers to the people of Jammu and (...) -
Modi acts in accordance with the directions and desires of RSS chief | Arun Srivastava
9 September 2023Vishwa Hindu Parishad heralding its rebirth and reinventing itself after so many years by taking out a rally in Nuh of Haryana, should not be perceived as a simple move to revive the Hindu outfit, instead, it ought to be grasped in a wider (...) -
Unrealised Aspirations: The Common School System & the Quest for Equitable Education in India | Jain, Sengar and Pandey
9 September 2023A Gujarat government Indian Administrative Service officer Dhaval Patel after visiting six primary schools in Chhota Udepur district among the tribal area made the following observation: ‘These poor tribal children do not have any other source of (...) -
These Small Farmers Have Big Hopes from Natural Farming | Bharat Dogra
9 September 2023, by Bharat DograA quiet but significant change has come over the remote village of Bahera (in Niwari district of Madhya Pradesh) in recent times. More and more villagers are involved in intense discussions on natural farming. In fact even farmers from (...) -
A Tribute to Akshay Dutta – the pioneer Bengali rationalist | Jayanta Kumar Ghosal
9 September 2023by Jayanta Kumar Ghosal
Romesh Chandra Dutta, the doyen of 19th Century Bengali Literature, wrote, “Akshay Kumar Dutta and Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar were the true successors of Raja Rammohan Rai. They inherited his strong enthusiasm for social (...)
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