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• A Tale of Two Monuments | Harshvardhan Purandare and Sandeep Pandey

  5 March 2021, by Harshvardhan Purandare, Sandeep Pandey

  Ahmedabad hosts a Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram, the iconic monument where values and foundation of Indian democracy evolved through decades of Freedom movement. Now the city also hosts five star Narendra Modi stadium at Motera ground, a new monument named after our seven star prime minister. One can say, Indian democracy which grew at Gandhi Ashram is now ceremoniously buried at Modi stadium, both separated by just 14 minutes of car drive and 66 minutes walk if you were to march in Gandhiji’s (…)

• Bad Bank Implementation Issues | Nand. L Dhameja

  5 March 2021

  by Prof. Nand. L Dhameja *
  The term Bad Bank is a misnomer, it is a bank or a financial institution to bring health to an institution which has gone bad or is having financial problems., It follows a process of writing off or removing distressed assets from the organisation. Many organisations have accumulated losses or carrying on various item which do not have economic value.
  UP Government, like other State Governments, waived off Rs. 35,000 crore by way of Kisan Rahat Bonds. In the (…)

• Procure Oilseeds at MSP at Par with wheat for their Self-Sufficiency | Sher Singh Sangwan

  5 March 2021

  The unlimited procurement of wheat and rice at MSP by Food Corporation of India (FCI) since 1970 has proved a decisive incentive to farmers in achieving self-sufficiency in cereals. Wheat procurement at MSP is going on in Punjab and Haryana over last 50 years and other states like Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh have joined in the last 10 years which has given boost to their wheat production. Similarly, the procurement of rice was mainly in the State of Punjab, Andhra Pradesh/ Telangana and (…)

• The Brave New World of Future | Saumitra Mohan

  5 March 2021

  by * Saumitra Mohan
  When people of different hues and denominations are participating in diverse kinds of protest movements all across the globe for the deemed and purported onslaughts on human rights and freedoms notwithstanding the incursions of a deadly pandemic, the world around us has been changing stealthily without most of us ever realizing the same. While it was an intense Darwinian ‘Survival of the Fittest’ struggle which saw the victory and ascendancy of the Homo sapiens in the (…)

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  Painting by Devangana Kalita from Jail 6, Tihar, Delhi

  5 March 2021

  Devangana Kalita has been unjustly incarcerated since May 2020 for peaceful protests against the CAA.

• Eighty | Badri Raina

  5 March 2021, by Badri Raina

  February 28, 2021
  They zoomed, friends from everywhere,
  Just to make an eighty-year old wanted.
  The eighty-year old no longer felt
  Hollowed as a house haunted.
  Tailoring away for decades
  At cut-pieces of sanity and brawl,
  Their words of love made my stitching
  Worthwhile and whole.
  What better abode to rest in finally
  Than the memories of friends?
  The zoom poured manna into my soul,
  And for my failings made amends.
  They may not know but they left the meet
  With a basketful (…)

• Patriots vs traitors | Sukumaran CV

  5 March 2021, by Sukumaran C.V.

  Talk about the environment, you are a traitor.
  Speak about the farmers’ protest, you are an anti-national.
  Talk in the Elgar Parishad, you are an extremist.
  Writers and poets, why are you write about the farmers?
  Why are you speak about the Dalits?
  Why are you sing about the Muslims?
  Don’t you know they are terrorists?
  Don’t you know they hatch conspiracies to tarnish Hindustan?
  Don’t you want to see we make Bharat a Ramraj?
  Whose side are you on? we ask you.
  The (…)

• Indian middle class urging the opposition to protest rise in oil prices | Arun Srivastava

  5 March 2021

  by Arun Srivastava
  The Indian "middle class" is usually classified in three categories– the "aspirational middle-class", the "affluent middle class", and the "middle-middle class". Notwithstanding differences in their sectoral approach the fact remains that the middle class in general is the most selfish and self-centred section of the society. This class is generally viewed as the vanguard for the economic development and growth of the country, but an analysis of their class character (…)

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  Indian Left in a Pit: The Way Out? Prof. Achin Vanaik Examines | Sukla Sen

  5 March 2021, by Sukla Sen

  by Sukla Sen
  Professor Achin Vanaik, to the discerning Indian public in particular, is quite a familiar name—both as a radical intellectual and an activist as well, especially in the field of anti-nuclear peace movement; is a co-recipient, with (late) Praful Bidwai, of the International Peace Bureau’s Sean McBride International Peace Prize for 2000.
  Prof. Vanaik, who had started his professional career as a journalist with the Times of India, back in the ’70s, is intellectually, and even (…)

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  When Sonu Sood Beat Santa Claus | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  5 March 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Title: I Am No Messiah; Author: Sonu Sood with Meena K. Iyer; Publisher: Ebury Press (Penguin Random House); Pages: 215; Price: Rs 399
  This is a heart-warming and a candid account of how actor Sonu Sood achieved the impossible: in the worst nightmarish months of Covid-19, he became a one point of hope and instant action for countless people across the country and beyond. At a time when administrations appeared to collapse and “celebrities” retreated into safe cocoons, this man from Moga (…)