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• Saibaba release suspended while convicted murderer at large | Faraz Ahmad

  15 October 2022, by Faraz Ahmad

  On the day the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court set aside the conviction of 90 per cent physically disabled former Delhi University English professor, Prof. G.N. Saibaba, for lack of requisite necessary sanctions, back in Nagpur, under a BJP-ruled state government and a BJP ruled Central government, the same day another BJP ruled state Haryana, let out on a forty-day parole Gurmit Baba Ram Rahim Singh, the head of Dera Sachcha Sauda, convicted of multiple rapes and murders and thereby (…)

• Mohalla Clinics trying to fill the ‘Health for All’ gap in Neoliberal times | Priyanka Yadav

  15 October 2022

  by Priyanka Yadav *
  FOR YEARS OUT-OF-POCKET expenditure on health care has been the highest among the total health expenditure in India. The National Health Accounts Estimates 2018-19 observed that the total health expenditure was 3.2 per cent in the year 2018-19, whereas out-of-pocket expenditure in the same year was 48.2 per cent for an average Indian. It is a given that the individual aims to avail of the best health services he can afford. After all, today, health is a commodity. (…)

• Can the Bharat Jodo Yatra trigger democratic governance? | Vikash Narain Rai

  15 October 2022

  by Vikash Narain Rai *
  The over enthusiasts would be searching for glimpses of Mahatma Gandhi’s historic nation building marches in the on-going Bharat Jodo padayatra to showcase Rahul Gandhi’s campaign against communal hatred. However, what can not be denied is that like Gandhi ji, Rahul too is seeking a vision of inclusive India at immense personal risk. The remaining Yatra agenda of combating the unemployment and price rise would at present be comparable to the status of a PIL (public (…)

• Apologising to Bilkis Bano | Sandeep Pandey

  15 October 2022, by Sandeep Pandey

  It is a matter of shame for us as a society that Bilkis Bano’s rapists have been released by a District level committee of Gujarat Government. Some people in the Hindutva family are also justifying the act by claiming that a few of the rapists are Sanskari Brahmans. If rapists and murderers will be called Sanskari, then we as a society have to rethink about the moral values and ethical standards necessary to be upheld for us to be called a civilised society. Besides Biliks Bano feeling (…)

• Hysterectomies in younger Indian women are influenced by insurance subsidies | Debnath, Paul, and Sareen

  15 October 2022

  14/09/2022
  by Sisir Debnath, Sourabh B. Paul, and Komal Sareen *
  Doctors compensated on a fee-for-service basis in India, were more likely to perform hysterectomy surgeries, whether or not they were clinically necessary.
  Women in India were more likely to undergo a hysterectomy when a state-provided health insurance programme reimbursed private hospital fee-for-service arrangements, and younger Indian women are more likely to have the procedure.
  Researchers at the Indian Institute of (…)

• Pensions for All Elderly People Must be A Top Priority in India | Bharat Dogra

  15 October 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  The population of elderly (60 years plus) citizens in India is around 140 million. The union (central) government pays annual pensions worth around Rs. 180,000 crore (one crore=10 million) to its former employees numbering between 6 to 7 million. For the remaining elderly it provides about Rs. 9700 crore (inclusive of some other welfare spending). During recent years, this budget, listed under the National Social Assistance Program (NSAP) has stagnated in money terms, declined in real terms. (…)

• Implications of Netaji’s statue at India Gate | Prem Singh

  15 October 2022, by Prem Singh

  In a TV channel debate, BJP spokesperson and anchor shared and served a lie that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s daughter in her letter to the Prime Minister has alleged that the Congress kept devaluing Netaji to further Gandhi’s non-violence; because Netaji had taken the path of liberating the country through violence mode by forming the Azad Hind Fauj (INA). They also praised the Bombay Royal Naval Mutiny of 1946 to confirm that the country got its independence through a violent route. I (…)

• Gandhi’s Life and Struggle: Impact of Jesus Christ | Ram Puniyani

  15 October 2022

  by Ram Puniyani
  Abstract
  Gandhi emerged not only as one of the greatest persons of twentieth century, he also led the anti colonial movement in India with distinction. This struggle also had positive impact on other anti colonial movements across the World. This movement was unique as Gandhi followed the path of Non Violence, Satyagrha (invocation of Truth). He also evolved the path of love for all and put forward the ‘other Cheek’, to those opposing his path. He succeeded in uniting all (…)

• Feminist Mutiny in Iran and Implications for India | Gouri Sankar Nag

  15 October 2022

  by Gouri Sankar Nag
  Iran is again in the headlines for a seething public unrest and ironically this time it is not the anniversary bereavement sparking solidarity wave against the planned American assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the military general of the Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps but for the alleged torture cum murder of a 22 young lady namely Mahsa Amini on the fateful day of 16th September 2022. Her fault was that she dared to challenge the regime’s orthodox restriction on (…)

• Sitting the trippers | Engel & Cowan

  15 October 2022

  October 10, 2022
  by Liam Engel, Edith Cowan *
  Most people who take psychedelics do so on their own or with friends, not in clinical settings. Removing stigma is the first step toward limiting the harm.
  International prohibition means most psychedelic drugs are legally available only in research. There are currently around 60 psychedelic clinical trials globally with an estimated fewer than 6,000 people participating in them. But outside of these trials, more than 20,000 people have (…)