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• The Saga of Satya Pal Malik | Arup Kumar Sen

  29 April 2023, by Arup Kumar Sen

  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 (…)

• Why Struggle of Women Wrestlers Against Sexual Harassment Needs Wider Support | Bharat Dogra

  29 April 2023, by Bharat Dogra

  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 (…)

• Rahul, a hero in the fight against Modi’s communal politics | Radhakanta Barik

  29 April 2023, by Radhakanta Barik

  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 (…)

• The Elephant In The Room: The Global Economy drives the Climate Crisis | S.G. Vombatkere

  29 April 2023, by S G Vombatkere

  A perspective
  On World Earth Day 2023, a few dozen members of the 8-billion-and-counting Homo Sapiens species, met in an insignificantly tiny spot on Planet Earth. They met at the premises of The Institution of Engineers (India), Mysore, to discuss and think about Global Warming (GW) and Climate Change (CC).
  Climate Change gains respectability
  EARTHDAY.ORG recognizes 23rd April as World Earth Day .
  WTO, World Bank and WEF, launched “Action on Climate and Trade” to leverage (…)

• May Day 2023 | Kobad Ghandy

  29 April 2023, by Kobad Ghandy

  On this day we commemorate not only the struggles of the working class but use the occasion to take stock of the communist movement worldwide and draw conclusions for its growth and development.
  To briefly recapitulate in 1889 an international federation of socialist groups and trade unions designated May 1 as a day in support of workers, in commemoration of the Haymarket Riot in Chicago (1886). Five years later, U.S. Pres. Grover Cleveland, uneasy with the socialist origins of Workers’ (…)

• 2023 Karnataka Assembly Elections: Issues and campaign strategies | P. S. Jayaramu

  29 April 2023, by P S Jayaramu

  2nd May, 2023
  Electoral fever in Karnataka is reaching a high voltage point with the principal campaigners in all the three contesting Political Parties becoming hyperactive. Elections are often described as the festival of democracy. Yes, it appears like a festival if one looks at the banners and the head gears leaders sport. But, If we go by the negative and highly personalised attacks by senior leaders of Parties against their adverseries, what we see is the ill-will and rancour they (…)

• Reversal of Land Reforms and Land to Tiller remains a Distant Dream | Soma Marla

  29 April 2023, by Soma S. Marla

  In India land ownership is crucial for the livelihood of millions of rural poor. Even after seven decades of independence from British colonialism, the vast majority of the land is possessed by rich landed sections, although small farmers, landless poor constitute more than 80 percent of the farming community, the latter own a negligible land area. Consequently, inequalities in land ownership in villages became a major obstacle to poverty eradication and an obstacle to increasing (…)

• From Rath Yatra to Bharat Jodo Yatra: Recovery of India’s Soul | Ram Puniyani

  29 April 2023, by Ram Puniyani

  by Ram Puniyani
  Abstract
  Bharat Jodo yatra of Indian National Congress led by Rahul Gandhi and supported by many civil society groups and others started on 7th September 2022 from Kanyakumari and will culminate in Srinagar on 30th January 2023. The yatra is getting tremendous response from most sections of people. It began in the backdrop of worsening social scenario where on one side the intercommunity relations took a nosedive and on the other economic plight of average people (…)

• Dr Faizi’s fatuity | Justice Katju

  29 April 2023, by Justice Markandey Katju

  Dr S. Faizi, the eminent Indian ecologist, reminds me of the English poet Shelley, whom Matthew Arnold described as ’’ an ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain."
  Dr Faizi has written an article titled ’Towards an Asian Union’ published in Mainstream Weekly magazine. (http://mainstreamweekly.net/article13391.html)
  In this article, he has advocated the formation of an Asian Union, patterned on the European Union, for the political and economic cooperation of (…)

• Sexuality, Marriage and the State | Bhabani Shankar Nayak

  29 April 2023

  by Bhabani Shankar Nayak *
  Modern nation-states were established to secure citizenship rights and ensure egalitarian and democratic governance based on constitutional rules and regulations shaped by the values of secularism and science. These principles are central to governance and public administration. States and governments can manage various conflicts during the governance process for greater common good by adhering to constitutional values based on science and secularism.
  The (…)