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• PPP in Military Schools - Whether Modi Regime has Facilitated Insidious Militarisation of the Society? | Subhash Gatade

  11 May 2024, by Subhash Gatade

  “The Leader principle, the stress on militarism, the doctrine of racial-cultural superiority, ultra-nationalism infused with religious idealism, the use of symbols of past greatness, the emphasis on national solidarity, the exclusion of religious or ethnic minorities from the nation concept-—all these features of the RSS are highly reminiscent of fascist movements in Europe.” —-Donald Smith, India As a Secular State, Oxford University Press,1963
  Introduction
  ’It is time to impart (…)

• India’s Budget 2023–24: What Is in it for the People? | Neeraj Jain

  11 May 2024

  Part 1: Is India Becoming a $5 Trillion Economy Soon?
  In this three part series, we take a look at the economic situation in the country, in early 2024, in the context of the claims being made by the Modi Government regarding the state of the economy.
  In Part 1 of this article series, we take a look at the claims being made about India becoming a 5 trillion dollar economy within the next few years.
  The GDP Conundrum
  In 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi famously envisioned that India (…)

• Identifying and Assisting Karnataka’s Most Deprived Village Panchayats: Insights from Mission Antyodaya | Jos Chathukulam

  11 May 2024, by Jos Chathukulam

  Abstract
  Here an attempt has been made to identify the most deprived /most vulnerable Village Panchayats in the State of Karnataka and recommends special assistance to these Panchayats from the Fifth Karnataka State Finance Commission. It’s crucial to identify and support these areas to ensure equitable development across the state. How does the Fifth Karnataka State Finance Commission plan to provide special assistance to these Panchayats?
  Keywords: Karnataka, State Finance Commissions (…)

• 1857: The idea of nationality in the ’Flag Salute Song’ | Prem Singh

  11 May 2024, by Prem Singh

  On the occasion of the 167th anniversary of the Rebellion of 1857
  British rulers, historians, scholars, writers, and folklorists have referred to the Rebellion of 1857 that started from Meerut on 10 May 1857 by different names. This diversity of nomenclature reflects people’s different attitudes towards the Rebellion. In the War of the nomenclature, the Rebellion has been described with derogatory terms such as ’Ghadar’ by the Britishers on the one hand and ’India’s First War of (…)

• Lenin, and crisis in natural sciences and philosophy today | Anil Rajimwale

  11 May 2024, by Anil Rajimwale

  On the occasion of Lenin’s 154th birth anniversary Lenin, and crisis in natural sciences and philosophy today
  Anil Rajimwale
  The discoveries in the natural sciences at the end of 19th and beginning of 20th centuries led Lenin to write one of the most celebrated works in sciences and philosophy: Materialism and Empirio-Criticism. The immediate instigation for the work was the ‘split’ in the atom and the consequent intense debates among the scientists and the philosophers, as new particles (…)

• How an industry milks mothers’ fears for profit | Irma Hidayana

  11 May 2024

  May 8, 2024
  Baby formula manufacturers have a history of aggressive marketing and exploiting women’s anxieties to wean them off breastfeeding.
  There is a breastfeeding crisis unfolding in Indonesia that results in the deaths of thousands of toddlers and mothers each year.
  Fewer mums are breastfeeding according to World Health Organization recommendations and this steep decline, combined with a surge in the use of commercially manufactured milk formula, is being blamed.
  Data from the (…)

• Climate action / Poll Irregularities / Homeopathy | Humra Quraishi

  11 May 2024, by Humra Quraishi

  Fires spreading out across the hills of Uttarakhand yet there’s little of the expected hue and cry! Not even by those particular politicians who otherwise miss no opportunity talking of environment, having video films shot in and around tiger reserves… Today as fires rage across the hills of Uttarakhand, one can well imagine the plight of the tigers and rest of the animals (human beings included!), surviving in and around the Corbett Park belt and far beyond. Not to be overlooked this vital (…)

• Sri Lanka: Tamil party vows to work with Sinhalese, Muslims | M R Narayan Swamy

  11 May 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

  A Sri Lankan Tamil party that has paid a heavy price for consistently opposing Tamil Tiger politics has pledged to work with all communities in the island nation while resisting racists and supremacists from all sections of society.
  The Social Democratic Party of Tamils (SDPT), the successor to the Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (ERPLF), has called for a full and proper implementation of the India-backed 13th amendment to the constitution that devolves powers to all (…)

• Our shared Bangladesh

  11 May 2024

  08 Feb 2024
  Dear Rehman,
  I am hugely moved by your letter about our shared Bangladesh. It also made me think about our student days, when we had such dreams about a future Bengal and hoped that our anticipations and highest expectations would someday come true.
  You were living mostly in Kolkata in those days, and I was, in contrast, mostly in Dhaka, on the other side of the east-west divide.
  The familiar trains that left Dhaka railway station, which my freedom fighter cousins once (…)

• Students Protest is Soul of Democracy — In Defence of Students Protest in Columbia University | Vijay Kumar

  11 May 2024, by Vijay Kumar

  I have been watching the protest of students at Columbia University, and its spread over other University campuses in US and even in other countries against the Israel attack on Gaza civilians and humongous violation of human rights with sad emotion and unrelieved anguish. As recently as in the last week of March, I was invited to participate in a symposium on the American-Indian Constitution, organized by the Law School of Columbia University. I enjoyed the warm hospitality of faculty and (…)