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• State of affairs in the Congress Party: Are the Gandhis leading to its extinction? | P. S. Jayaramu

  8 October 2021

  by P. S. Jayaramu
  (4th October, 2021)
  The Congress Party continues to be in the news. And certainly not for good reasons. This time, it is attracting attention for the shocking and abrasive manner in which Capt. Amarinder Singh, a veteran leader of the Party was brought down recently from the post of Chief Minister of Punjab.
  It is time to ask some frank questions like how and who took the decision about removing the Captain from the post of chief minister. Going by the reports in the (…)

• Fifteenth Finance Commission Recommendations: Economics mixed with Politics? | Govind Bhattacharjee

  8 October 2021

  by Govind Bhattacharjee*
  The terms of reference (ToR) of the Fifteenth Finance Commission (FFC) had said it all, that the Centre should be more equal than the States, and that this was what it meant by cooperative federalism. The ToR was heavily skewed in favour of the Centre — and one could not be accused of prejudice to think that like in every other aspect of economic policies, here too the vote-bank politics might have played a part in suggesting an elaborate set of guidelines to the (…)

• Letter to the Governor of Haryana Regarding Incitement To Violence by Chief Minister Of Haryana | S.G. Vombatkere

  8 October 2021, by S G Vombatkere

  EMAILED on 04/10/2021 at 3:03 PM
  Dated: 04.10.2021
  From:
  Major General S.G. Vombatkere, VSM (Retd) 410, ‘Aspen’ Sankalp Central Park Yadavagiri Mysuru-570020 Email: sg9kere[at]live.com; Tel:(0821)2975187
  BY EMAIL
  To:
  Hon’ble Governor of the State of Haryana ;
  Copy for information:
  Hon’ble President of India presidentofindia[at]rb.nic.in; secy.president[at]rb.nic.in
  Subject: Incitement To Violence by Chief Minister Of Haryana
  Respected Hon’ble Governor of the State of (…)

• Dictatorial Ways | Humra Quraishi

  8 October 2021, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS
  6 October, 2021
  Foremost, let us stop focusing on the horrific happenings taking place in foreign lands and neighboring counties. Let us concentrate on the build-ups here, within our country. In fact, even the fence-sitters have been left near speechless, with no adequate words to comment on the recent brutal killings of our people in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri. Going by the videos in circulation, the farmers were crushed, mowed down, trampled upon and killed by political (…)

• Why River Pollution and Depletion Remains A Serious Threat In India | Bharat Dogra

  8 October 2021, by Bharat Dogra

  In recent decades India has heard a lot about such appealing, consoling programs like the Ganga Action Plan, the Yamuna Action Plan, the National River Conservation Plan and finally Namami Gange. So it is all the more disturbing to know from recent reports and other indicators that the problem of river pollution remains serious, endangering health of human beings and even threatening the survival of several forms of life in and around rivers.
  In 2018 the Central Pollution Control Board (…)

• Die Linke disaster barely averted in German elections | Victor Grossman

  8 October 2021

  October 1, 2021
  BERLIN—Germany’s long election campaign, full of ups and downs, marked the end of 16 more or less placid years with Angela Merkel, 67, and her “Christian double party” (CDU and CSU) known as the “Union” (though the Christian Democratic Union’s Bavarian component, the Christian Social Union, stays somewhat separate). Until now it had joined up with the Social Democrats (SPD) as increasingly uncomfortable junior partners. But now, without Angela, her unlucky Union followers (…)

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  Press Release by Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) on National Digital Health Mission (NDHM)

  8 October 2021

  INDIAN DOCTORS FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT 139- E, Kitchlu Nagar Ludhiana
  Date: 30.09.2021
  Press release on National Digital Health Mission (NDHM)
  The National Digital Health Mission Will in no way help in improving health of our people
  Albeit it will be another mechanism for surveillance by the state through personal data collection on health - IDPD
  Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) has expressed its grave concern on National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) recently (…)

• New Great Game in the Indo-Pacific | Manoj Kumar Mishra

  8 October 2021

  by Manoj Kumar Mishra *
  A new great game like scenario with multiple players being coerced or cajoled to join either US or China with enhanced militarization of Indo-Pacific seems to be in the offing. As Washington steps up its efforts in the region with building more confidence among allies and swinging the neutral states to its side, China would seek to challenge the changing regional order. There are many nuclear powers which are party to the game with North Korea recently claiming (…)

• Can Gandhism be appropriated by Hindutva? | Radhakanta Barik

  8 October 2021, by Radhakanta Barik

  by Prof Radhakanta Barik (retd)*
  Why does Modi’s BJP want to appropriate Gandhi. The Congress’s ideological roots lies in the tradition of Gandhi- Nehru. They are attacking Nehru from the beginning. They want one portion of the tradition that is Gandhi. Politics of Swach Bharat is carrying Gandhi’s symbol. They feel that Gandhi is a difficult nut to break. Gandhi’s concept of non violence and passive resistance have been used by Dalits, minorities to oppose the BJP. This year’s celebration (…)

• ’New India’: How the ’other’ lives ? A Brief Introduction of ’Indian Muslims’ by Humra Quraishi | Subhash Gatade

  8 October 2021, by Subhash Gatade

  ’Aag Musalsal Jehan Mein Lagi Hogi Yunhi Koi aag mein jala nahi hoga’ ( The fire must have been lit in the head/minds Nobody will burn without any such thing)
  A video of a photographer jumping on the dead body of a hapless ’encroacher’ from Assam has gone viral.
  By the time you read these lines the photographer must have been out on bail and being celebrated / glorified in the rightwing circles for expressing his ’true self’, his ’manliness’ against - what a leading custodian of the (…)