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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Nov 19, 2022

  19 November 2022

  * Nehruvian foreign policy & its relevance today | P S Jayaramu
  * Nehru Warned of Majoritarianism dressed as Nationalism | S N Sahu
  * On the Release of Rajiv Gandhi’s Killers | Papri Sri Raman
  * Russian Invasion of Ukraine & Divisions Within The Left | Achin Vanaik

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 19, 2022

  19 November 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 19, 2022
  Over the past decades the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry in India has acquired a name for itself as the pharmacy of the world that supply’s an estimated sixty percent of the world’s vaccines and about twenty percent of all of generic medicines. This standing of the industry had been partly tarnished in the past when a major scandal broke around a particular Indian Parma company called Ranbaxy over its manipulation of clinical (…)

• Hatti Tribal and Swarna Aayog Movement: Deciphering Caste Majoritarian Churn in Himachal Pradesh | Rohit Kumar and Rakesh Kumar

  19 November 2022

  by Rohit Kumar and Rakesh Kumar *
  India being a country full of caste-religious and ethnic-cultural diversities made it susceptible to many conflicts based on these deep rooted differences. Though Indian constitution provided to mitigate these differences through many of its provisions but these still remained major hurdles in achieving the liberal-democratic goals of egalitarianism. The similar diversities have also made its way in the politics and economy of the country after (…)

• Nalini: A Lost Opportunity for India’s GoP | Papri Sri Raman

  19 November 2022, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  Beyond the tragic blows and the brooding over violence, Beyond the labour over errors and repenting over deeds, Beyond the evenings without dialogues and the nights full of suspicion, Beyond the days in which the happy ones revel in their narrow happiness — Is it possible that to give blows to one another is the only reality? —Aldo Capitini, Colloquio Corale (Choral Dialogue), 1956. Translated into English by Maddalena Rayner.
  THIRTY YEARS IS a very very long time in the life of a (…)

• Remembering the Nehruvian foreign policy and its relevance today | P.S. Jayaramu

  19 November 2022

  by P.S. Jayaramu
  November 15, 2022
  Only a few days ago, the national observed Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s birth anniversary. At a time when there are animated discussions going on within the political class about the contribution ( or the lack of it) to Indian foreign policy and external relations, it is useful to take as detached a view as far as possible about the issue.
  Irrespective of the positions taken by the political leaders in contemporary India, it is pertinent to recognise (…)

• Nehru Warned that Majoritarianism Masquerading as Nationalism Would Endanger Democracy and Secularism in India | S N Sahu

  19 November 2022, by S N Sahu

  On the occasion of birth anniversary of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru the nation while paying rich tributes to him gratefully recalls his many splendoured roles as a towering freedom fighter, architect of modern India, brilliant writer and above all a statesman of planetary significance. His legacy anchored in science,scientific temper, secularism and inclusive nationalism. He creatively adopted modern technology by blending it with our rich civilisational and cultural (…)

• Indian Foreign Policy: From Non-Alignment to Multi-Alignment | Gull Mohammad Wani and Ouffee Naik

  19 November 2022

  by Gull Mohammad Wani and Ouffee Naik *
  India’s neutral position on Russian invasion of Ukraine is still a subject- matter of debate among policy circles. The different political parties in India have also stated their position on this policy stance. The opposition parties supported PM Modi but some congress leaders promptly pointed out that Jawaharlal Nehru’s policy of Non-Alignment (NAM) has stood the test of the time. It was during the meeting of Shanghai Cooperation (…)

• Adivasis threatened with the spectre of losing their identity and exstence | Arun Srivastava

  19 November 2022, by Arun Srivastava

  by Arun Srivastava
  The Supreme Court’s February 13, 2019, the keeper of the Constitutional conscience and justice had directed state governments to evict nearly one million Adivasis and other forest communities. This order not only impended their autonomy, liberty and dignity it also trampled Adivasis of their rights to life and health. It is undoubtedly the worst nature of infringement of the right to life of an already vulnerable community, which is disparaged by the civilized people as (…)

• Can India seize the demographic advantage? | Jayan Jose Thomas

  19 November 2022

  If India is to seize the advantage of its burgeoning young workforce, it needs to strategically implement economic and industrial policies.
  There is a new urgency in India to create jobs for the rapidly growing number of young people set to enter the workforce in the next two decades.
  India will account for 20 percent of the worldwide increase in the working-age population over the two decades from 2020. Projections from the World Bank show that between 2020 and 2040, India’s population (…)

• Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Divisions Within The Left | Achin Vanaik

  19 November 2022

  by Achin Vanaik
  It was never expected that the response to the war on Ukraine of the Left internationally, would be so divided. Broadly there have been four positions held by those who consider themselves to be anti-capitalist socialists of one kind or the other. The arguments, rationalisations and justifications provided by the first three of these groups do, in some degree or the other, overlap.
  The first group (which is certainly the smallest of the four categories) includes those who (…)