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• The Problem of Unemployment | Sandeep Pandey

  11 December 2021, by Sandeep Pandey

  An advertisement of Bhartiya Janata Party government in Uttar Pradesh proclaims, ‘Educated woman is our resolve, She is an alternative for golden future.’ However, an educated woman Shikha Pal is perched on top of an overhead water tank for more than hundred days at the height of about hundred feet aspiring to become a teacher in U.P. government run schools. She hold a Bachelor of Education degree and has qualified the examination conducted by the U.P. government and there are about 26,000 (…)

• To Promote Opposition Unity the TMC Should be Careful to Avoid Confrontation with the Congress | Bharat Dogra

  11 December 2021, by Bharat Dogra

  Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of W. Bengal, is also a prominent, nationally recognized political leader of India whose reputation as a gutsy, gritty, courageous political leader capable of establishing a close rapport with people was strengthened greatly with a very significant and emphatic victory in West Bengal Assembly elections held in April. Although the BJP, by far the richest and most powerful political party of India at present, had left no stone unturned and poured in all its (…)

• SAARC: Regionalism and the Future Ahead | Santhosh Mathew

  11 December 2021

  by Santhosh Mathew *
  After the end of World War II, nations started to realize the benefits that came from regional cooperation. European Union after experiencing the economic and other benefits from regional cooperation tried to share it with other parts of the world. In Southeast Asia, Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) followed the same pattern.
  The South Asian nations were little late in seeking the advantages of regional cooperation, owning to the historical (…)

• Remembering Anti-caste scholar-activist Gail Omvedt | K Srinivasulu

  11 December 2021, by Karli Srinivasulu

  With the passing away of Gail Omvedt at the age of eighty we have lost one of our leading anti-caste scholar-activists. Born in the USA, Omvedt came to India in the early 1970s to research on Mahatma Jotibha Phule-led Nineteenth century Satyashodhak movement in Maharastra which resulted in a Ph. D. thesis submitted to the University of California, Berkeley and later published as a book entitled Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society: The Non-Brahman Movement in Western India.
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  The revelation of the ordinary through the everydayness of experiences and challenges | Nupur Choudhary

  11 December 2021

  by Nupur Choudhary *
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  In Defence of the Ordinary: Everyday Awakenings by Dev Nath Pathak
  2021, 276 Pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9390358175 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9390358175 Bloomsbury
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  This insightful, demonstrative, and lively account of experiences and stories addresses a wide range of readers. The book breaks the confines of academic structures and envisions an ordinary. Opening through its intrepid preface, the author’s attempt to visualize ordinariness gets highlighted in every (…)

• I suspend my hosting of the talk show "To the Point" on Sansad TV | Dr Shashi Tharoor

  11 December 2021

  DR. SHASHl THAROOR Member Of Parliament (Lok Sabha). Thiruvananthapuram Chairman. Information Technology Committee of Parliament
  December 6, 2021
  STATEMENT
  Since the revamp of parliament’s two television channels in August this year, I have been proud and privileged to host a talk show on Sansad TV, "To The Point". The show permitted me to engage in meaningful conversations with significant figures of our non-political public life, ranging from sitar maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan Sahib (…)

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  25 States Observe International Human Rights Day under Reimagining India Campaign

  11 December 2021

  December 10, 2021
  Today, programs were held in 25 states to mark International Human Rights Day as part of a nation-wide campaign titled ’Reimagining India- Campaign to Uphold Human and Constitutional Rights’.
  In Delhi, a public meeting was held at Mandi House where nearly 500 people from different walks of life raised issues and concerns of human rights. At the public meeting, groups and networks highlighted issues of attacks on human rights defenders, undermining of institutions of (…)

• Buddhism: In Search Of The Original Teachings — A brief resume of the Early Buddhist Philosophy | Mandeep Lama

  11 December 2021

  by Mandeep Lama *
  (A) The Setting
  Although Buddhism spread among the Asian countries in a peaceful manner, which is remarkable when we remember the devastating Crusades and Jihads of The European Middle Ages, it cannot lay claim to ideological harmony among its various schools. In fact doctrinal differences, two of which had surfaced even during the life of the Buddha, were responsible for the rise of various schools of Buddhism.[[ The first of the two dissensions that arose during the (…)

• Russia-Ukraine Conflict Aggravating | R G Gidadhubli

  11 December 2021

  by Dr R.G.Gidadhubli *
  Russia-Ukraine bilateral ties have been worsening and conflicts persisting during the last nearly a decade. The conflict seems to be aggravating again. This is evident from the fact that in November 2021 the president of Ukraine Mr. Volodymyr Zelenskiy has accused Russia on several grounds. He has stated on 26th November that Russia was sending ‘very dangerous signals’ with military troop movements on the border with Ukraine, which from his perspective was a threat (…)

• Science changes – and so should rational behaviour | Stewart & van Rooyen

  11 December 2021

  by Ruth Stewart and Carina van Rooyen *
  November 24, 2021
  The world around us, and the way researchers study and understand it, changes all the time. The constant change means that what we know through science also shifts.
  Take the airborne nature of SARS-CoV-2: early in the COVID-19 pandemic key advisory groups, such as the World Health Organisation, assumed that respiratory droplets were the dominant mode of transmission. This led to advice on and practices of social distancing, (…)