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• Capitalism From Below: Blending of Rice and Rum | Radhakanta Barik

  25 September 2021, by Radhakanta Barik

  by Prof Radhakanta Barik*
  Rural Odisha is experiencing a new type of development which is missing from the research works by many. Here we are presenting a study of dynamics of rural economy in Odisha.
  Many people raise a question that Naveen Patnaik has not done anything for industrialisation of Odisha. But they are not right as the state of Odisha was in first stage of economic growth after colonial rule of Maratha and Britishers who destroyed the economy including the ship building (…)

• Per Capita Means Of Survival In Rural India Becoming Scarce | Gyan Pathak

  25 September 2021

  by Dr. Gyan Pathak
  (India Press Agency, September 22, 2021)
  The latest situation assessment of agricultural households and land and holdings of other households in rural India made by the NSS 77th round has revealed that per capita means of survival in rural India is dwindling fast and both farm and non-farm households are in great distress. It was the situation in 2019, which the COVID-19 induced lockdowns and containment measures further exacerbated.
  For the last several decades (…)

• Seven Essential Reforms The Government Must Not Delay | Bharat Dogra

  25 September 2021, by Bharat Dogra

  Keeping in view the increasing problems, distress and discontent in the country, some big policy changes and course-corrections in India are really overdue now. To bring the kind of change that the country needs at this stage, the Modi government should announce at least seven key reforms which will provide significant relief to distressed people and also help to end the strong sense of injustice that prevails among vast sections of society, while also helping to revive economy and protect (…)

• A Christian bishop, Islamophobia and the Left in Kerala | Sukumaran C V

  25 September 2021, by Sukumaran C.V.

  Kerala is believed to be "the most secular" state in India. Even in this most secular state, we are witnessing a bizarre situation where a bishop who spewed outright Islamophobia is supported and pampered by the Left government and its CM. The bishop said during a sermon in a church at Kuravilangad in Kottayam district of Kerala that the Christians ought to be vigilant against narcotic jihad by which he meant that the women of Christianity are being lured through drugs by the followers of a (…)

• Happenings After Kamba Ramayanam | T J S George

  25 September 2021, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  It is rather foolish, politically and socially, to question what God does. But sometimes God himself makes us raise questions. Familiar legends tell us about what happened one day when he allowed leaders of the world’s great democracies to meet him and ask him any questions. This is what followed.
  Joe Biden asked God: "When will America become the most magnificent nation on earth admired by all?" God said: "In about five years." Biden burst into tears. "Five years? I won’t (…)

• Congress passing through a blind alley | Arun Srivastava

  25 September 2021

  by Arun Srivastava
  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s latest experiment with the politics has been installing Charanjit Singh Channi, the dalit face of the party as the chief minister of Punjab replacing Amrinder Singh who led the party through many upheavals.
  Channi has 4 months at his disposal to revive governance and motivate the faction-ridden party with ambitious leaders. Surprisingly it took four years and eights months for Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi to realise that Amarinder is (…)

• Remembering J Mohan | Sankar Ray

  25 September 2021, by Sankar Ray

  Looking back at the early issues of now-defunct Now weekly, founded by Prof Humayun Kabir with Samar Sen as its founder-editor, I remember Calcutta Diary at alternate weeks by AM and J Mohan –both very well read. It is well-known that AM was Dr Ashok Mitra who also used to write under another pseudonym, Charan Gupta. But readers at large were not aware that J Mohan was none other than Jolly Mohan Kaul who would have been 100+plus now. Jollyda – as he was to numerous old-timers like me- (…)

• Menstruation: Brook of life | Ajailiu Niumai

  25 September 2021

  by Ajailiu Niumai
  Menstruation, which is always clouded by silence, stigma, taboo, religious and socio-cultural restrictions, has become a public discourse since the past few years. Menstruation is part and parcel of women’s sexual health, and it is a "wellspring of life" from which opens up a possibility of human life. In essence, menstruation is the "brook of life," which means a source of life about giving offspring and nurturing the future generation. The idea of ’sacred’ and ’profane’ (…)

• When will the season of violence end? | Humra Quraishi

  25 September 2021, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS
  22 September 2021
  Sitting somewhat forlorn …as the rains go about lashing, hindering movement, upsetting structures, interrupting the flow of thoughts if not anything more substantial. Not that there’s been much happening these last several months. Dismal reports on any given survival sphere along the roti, kapda, makaan fronts. In fact, today even the freshly constructed roads and bridges and airport structures are seemingly unable to take the strain of the rain fury compounded (…)

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  A Coup against Indian Democracy | M R Narayan Swamy

  25 September 2021

  BOOK REVIEW
  by M.R. Narayan Swamy
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  The Silent Coup: A History of India’s Deep State
  by Josy Joseph
  Context/Westland
  August 2021
  Pages: 306; Rs 699
  https://amzn.to/3j89Csx
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  India’s democracy faces a grave threat: from within. The very non-military security agencies meant to protect it are tearing it apart, creating fake narratives to justify their brutal onslaught. Award winning journalist Josy Joseph does a clinical examination of the deepening rot, answering (…)