2024

Almost one decade after the formation of Telangana state, Congress came into power in an anther southern state and on the go to redefine the real meaning of welfare and public good; as it was projected as the freebee culture which makes masses poor and lazy by the nations’ ruling party. Right from its inception, Congress strongly believes in the welfare policies through which the real development of the nation is possible. The legacy of welfare regimes during Nehru, Indira, P.V.Narimha Rao, (…)

This article is the sequel to my three previous articles on this subject namely – ‘Relevance of the Third Front’ (May 2014), Lok Sabha Elections 2019: A Perspective for Opposition Unity – One’ (June 2018), ‘Lok Sabha Elections 2019: A Perspective for Opposition Unity – Two’ (April 2019). Apart from these, the article ‘Opposition alliance’s knots and Muslims’ (October 2018) can also be seen in this regard. Links to all the articles are given at the end.
I was of the opinion that there (…)

A two-day workshop conducted by Karwan-e-Mohabbat (karwa of love) on “Communal Violence, Lynching, and Social Suffering and Justice” was held on December 17 and 18, 2023. The workshop, held at Adhchini, Delhi, covered a spectrum of themes including communal violence, the rising threat of majoritarian politics, hate crimes, legal justice, lynching, and the role of the judiciary, state, and wider civil society. The prominent speakers provided insightful and valuable knowledge on such issues. (…)

January 7, 2024
Air pollution deaths increase by 150,000 in rapidly growing South and Southeast Asian cities.
Millions of people in cities in South and Southeast Asia face the threat of dying prematurely due to air pollution.
Eighteen cities in Asia’s tropical region are growing fast and are expected to be home to more than 10 million people each by 2100.
Most have limited to no routine ground monitoring of air pollution making it challenging to work out how bad the air has become (…)

More than a year after Sri Lanka plunged into an unprecedented economic crisis and uncertainty, a large mass of people in the island remain in the grip of painful poverty and resultant food insecurity.
When the 2022 crisis came with high inflation, soaring prices of essential commodities and depleted foreign reserves, it led to more than quarter of the island’s estimated 21 million people becoming food insecure all of a sudden.
According to the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and (…)

January 12, 2024
From the standpoint of affirming ‘solidarity’ with the regime of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the October 7 attack, India has swung away to the far horizon and has unceremoniously dumped the US-Israeli axis, which provided beacon light to Delhi’s West Asian policies in the past few years.
From a strategic asset, Israel connection is becoming a liability for the Indian government. Delhi spurned Netanyahu’s repeated entreaties to brand Hamas as a terrorist (…)

January 4, 2024
After the failure of Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive, Kyiv finds itself at a major crossroads and with no easy options.
The demand late last year by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, for the mobilisation of an additional 500,000 troops, Ukraine’s armed forces have had a strength of around a million soldiers, with continuous regular mobilisation compensating for losses on the battlefield. Against this background, the target of an additional half a million troops (…)

BOOK REVIEW
by Chotelal Kumar
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Postmodern Gandhi and Other Essays
Gandhi in the World and at Home
by Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
The University of Chicago Press | 2006 - 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 0226731235
ISBN-13 : 978-0226731230
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo4343100.html
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Politics, Ethics and the Self Re-reading Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj
Edited By Rajeev Bhargava
Routledge India | 2022 - 370 Pages
ISBN 9780367488598 (…)