2023

BOOK REVIEW
by M.R. Narayan Swamy
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Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
by Kishore Mahbubani
PublicAffairs, New York Pages: 312; Price: Rs 699 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1541768132 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1541768130
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Is China’s tremendous economic growth a threat to the United States? Is Beijing trying to dethrone Washington as the world’s numero uno? Is the Communist Party of China trying to destabilize American and Western values? Will China’s aggressive onward (…)

Book Review:
by Shubham Sharma
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The Rafale Deal: Flying Lies? The Role of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India’s Biggest Defence Scandal
by Ravi Nair and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
2022. pp 532 HB: Rs 795
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Until recently, India, like other Western-capitalist countries, lacked a robust domestic ‘military-industrial complex’ (MIC). It could be defined as the presence of a defence procurement mechanism which involves a transactional nexus between private group(s) that (…)

BOOK REVIEW:
Reviewed by Samm Newton (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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Saturation: An Elemental Politics
Melody Jue, Rafico Ruiz, eds.
Duke University Press
2021. xii + 332 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4780-1304-4 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-1146-0
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Saturation: An Elemental Politics, edited by Melody Jue and Rafico Ruiz, is a rich and varied collection of essays that offers a multidisciplinary foray into how the concept of saturati can be employed as an interpretive lens (…)

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDIAN WOMEN 1002, Ansal Bhawan, 16, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi - 110 001 Tele : 011-23319541 | E-mail : nfiwdelhi[at]gmail.com
President : Aruna Roy General Secretary : Annie Raja
To, Date: 08/05/2023
Shri. Om Birla Hon’ble Speaker of Lok Sabha, Parliament of India New Delhi
Sub: SUSPENSION OF BRIJ BHUSHAN SHARAN SINGH, MP
Honourable Sir,
The NFIW would like to draw your attention to a very serious issue connected with Mr Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, (…)

* Re-imagining Social Justice Politics in India Today | K Srinivasulu
* Struggle of Women Wrestlers Against Sexual Harassment Needs Wider Support | Bharat Dogra [13383]
* Rahul, a hero in the fight against Modi’s communal politics | Radhakanta Barik
* Sudan: Violence between army and militia is destroying Africa | Paul Jackson

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 29, & May 6 2023
Brazen Abuse of Powers to Protect Those on the Right Side of the Fence
There is a recurring cycle of immunity and protection enjoyed by people seen to be on the right side of the ruling party & Government circles. So, those politico-religious figures who delivered hateful sermons and attempted to instigate violence in the past few years, have not been or hardly been moved against, despite repeated calls from civil society. (…)

With the formation of the All India Federation for Social Justice (AIFSJ) at the initiative of DMK Chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, MK Stalin last year and convening of its conference in the first week of April 2023 in Chennai and the promise of regular conferences of the forum, the idea of Social Justice seems to have come back to the centre of Indian social, political and electoral discourse. Though what social justice means and what its character would be and ought to be in the (…)

by Arup Kumar Sen
Whatever may be the rights and obligations of the governor prescribed in the Indian Constitution, post-colonial India has a long tradition of governors acting uncritically according to the will of the central government. There are plenty of such instances. Satya Pal Malik is no exception in this regard. Manu Sebastian of Live law observed in November 2018: “After Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Karnataka, yet another instance of abuse of Constitutional power by a (…)

Several leading women wrestlers of India have been in the thick of a struggle against sexual harassment since the beginning of this year. They have been helped by some male wrestler colleagues as well. Although these wrestlers of both genders include those who have won several honors and medals at the international level, their struggle against powerful, politically very well-connected officials of wrestling organizations, accused of sexual harassment or colluding in it, is proving to be a (…)

Mahatma Gandhi had an imagination — where he finds the transformation of a society into a modern society. Jawaharlal Nehru and other national leaders started carrying that imagination forward. They articulated their imagination through a progressive constitution of free India, drafted by Ambedkar. A constitutional democracy worked out a political project of creating a modern society. In a country where political leadership is a matter of inheritance, as Nehru’s heir, Rahul Gandhi, as a (…)