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• Bahaar is Missing! | Humra Quraishi

  4 February 2022, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS - February 2, 2022
  Yes, it is the start of February but there’s little enthusiasm to look forward to the upcoming season of Bahaar or Spring, with Valentine’s Day splashed in its midst. Where is the excitement? Nowhere! Viruses of all hues holding sway, trampling upon even the faint traces of longing.
  Not to overlook the communal virus consuming us. Attacking our emotions, our sensitives, our very existence. Polarization on the housing front affects other fronts, including the (…)

• The Problem of Stray Cattle in Uttar Pradesh | Sandeep Pandey

  4 February 2022, by Sandeep Pandey

  The problem of stray cattle is so severe in Uttar Pradesh that the new Chief Secretary in his first press conference asked the District Magistrates to run a special drive from 1 to 10 January, 2022, to catch all stray cattle. Realising that ten days period was not enough for this purpose he extended it by a week.
  A farmers’ organization, Socialist Kisan Sabha, had been running a campaign in Hardoi, Unnao and Barabanki Districts for a year to take cattle from the villages to (…)

• A Strong Case for Significant Increase in NREGA Allocations in New Union Budget | Bharat Dogra

  4 February 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  [This article was submitted before the announcement of the 2022 budget by the Central Government but could not be carried here earlier, it remains extremely relevant]
  At a time of continuing high levels of economic distress and hardship in rural areas, there is a very strong case for a big increase in budgetary allocations for those schemes which can directly help to reduce this distress. In this context an activist and monitoring group which has the support of senior experts and (…)

• Remembering Rani Gaidinliu: Tribal Woman Freedom Fighter from Northeast India | Ajailiu Niumai

  4 February 2022

  by Ajailiu Niumai *
  January 26, 2022 marked the 73rd Republic Day of India and also marking 107th birth anniversary of Rani Gaidinliu, North East India’s tribal woman freedom fighter who was born in 1915 at Nungkao village, Tousem sub-division, Tamenglong District, Manipur. I had an opportunity to have met her as a young girl during the 1980s at Tamei, Tamenglong district, Manipur when she visited. My late grandmother Mrs. Ajonliu Niumai used to be her ardent follower until she converted (…)

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  NFIW on Union Budget 2022-2023 - Preliminary response

  4 February 2022

  Press release [Feb 1, 2022]
  The National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) expresses its disappointment that the Union Budget 2022-23 does not reflect the existing socio-economic reality of our country. It is a budget for increased Corporate profit in the name of development and at the cost of people.
  It is unacceptable that the NDA government headed by BJP considers women only as tools for electoral politics and not as citizens who contribute equally in Nation building. This is (…)

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  Ignoring health in the budget as utter disappointment - Statement by IDPD Feb 1, 2022

  4 February 2022

  Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD)
  Date: 01.02.2022
  IDPD terms ignoring health in the budget as utter disappointment
  The Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) as termed the annual budget as total disappointment from the point of view of health budget. Dr S S Soodan President, Dr Arun Mitra Sr Vice President and Dr Shakeel Ur Rahman Gen Secy said that not a single word has been mentioned about increasing the expenditure on health in her long speech today. The (…)

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  Text of Statement by Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races | Jan 3, 2022

  4 February 2022

  The White House
  Joint Statement of the Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races
  January 03, 2022
  The People’s Republic of China, the French Republic, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America consider the avoidance of war between Nuclear-Weapon States and the reduction of strategic risks as our foremost responsibilities.
  We affirm that a nuclear war cannot be (…)

• Hindutva is European Fascism at work in India | Bhabani Shankar Nayak

  4 February 2022

  by Bhabani Shankar Nayak *
  The Hindutva draws its ideological inspiration from the European fascist organisations like the National Fascist Party/Republican Fascist Party in Italy and the Italian Social Republic under Benito Mussolini, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi Party) in Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler, The Fatherland Front in Austria under Engelbert Dollfuss and Kurt Schuschnigg, the National Union in Portugal under António de Oliveira Salazar and Marcelo Caetano, (…)

• Caught in the everyday rut | Kangkana Shivam

  4 February 2022

  by Kangkana Shivam
  January 24, 2022
  This article explores the living realities of modern societies and the hypocrisy’s that we have routinely accepted and adopted in our lifestyle patterns. Do we need rectification? ... I leave it to the wider audience…
  Plot 1: Cogs in a Standardised system!
  Sipping on a hot cup of cappuccino in her routinized 15-minute coffee-break, Nisha just like any other day was staring outside her 27th-floor office window. Two small children, carefree about (…)

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  Cartoon: State Bank of India withdraws rule against pregnant women | Jayaraj Vellur

  4 February 2022, by Jayaraj Vellur

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  [SEE RELATED REPORT: SBI withdraws controversial circular on pregnant women candidates ]