Mainstream Weeklyby Amit Schandillia
How the wildfires in Australia, the floods in Oman and the locusts in Vidarbha are linked
If the coronavirus pandemic was not crippling enough, India is now reeling with the worst locust plague in decades. The crop-damaging migratory pests have swarmed Rajasthan, Gujarat, Punjab and Madhya Pradesh, and breached the eastern part of Maharashtra, the Vidarbha region, which is also at the heart of rural distress in the state. But to understand where these parasitical (…)
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Locusts: The piranhas of the skies | Amit Schandillia
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Savarkar, Two Nation Theory and Hindutva | Ram Puniyani
13 June 2020by Ram Puniyani This 28th May 2020, Savarkar was in the news yet again. While the opposition parties in Karnatka opposed the naming of Yelahanka flyover in the name of Savarkar, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi while paying tribute to him said that Savarkar inspired many to join freedom struggle. The opposition to Just close to a year before, the Maharashtra BJP, while seeking votes had in its manifesto the point that Bharat Ratna be awarded to Savakar. Those opposing such moves see (…)
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Need for New Union Budget in July | Bharat Dogra
13 June 2020, by Bharat DograThe on-going financial year has seen very big changes in the revenue and expenditure of the union government, and that too at a very early stage of the financial year. Very soon after the Union Budget was announced, from March onwards there were very big and unforeseen changes in revenue and expenditure due to COVID-19 related factors including a prolonged lockdown. The impact of all this is going to continue for a much longer time beyond the lockdown period.
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K. M. Panikkar: A Historian for our Times | Archishman Raju
13 June 2020by Archishman Raju
The first generation of Indian diplomats after independence had many prominent personalities who represented India at the world stage and distinguished themselves. The names of S. Radhakrishnan and Asaf Ali stand out as does that of Vijay Laxmi Pandit who was known to be a fantastic orator. Krishna Menon would become the particular target of western ire and would give what continues to be the longest speech at the UN on the issue of Kashmir in 1957.
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Importance of Collegiality in Supreme Court’s Decision Making: Is the Decision of the Hon’ble Chief Justice of India to constitute Single Judge Benches a good one?
13 June 2020by Ashok Kumar Panda, Aniruddha Purushotham
The Supreme Court of India has been established under Article 124(1) of the Constitution. Whilst in law there is only one Supreme Court of India, it is a common expression at the Bar that there are in fact seventeen Supreme Courts — for the reason that the Hon’ble Judges normally sit in the seventeen courtrooms of the Supreme Court in divisions of two or three Judges each.
The qualitative effects of collegiality in the decision-making process, (…) -
Book Review: Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future | Irshad Rashid and Manzoor Ahmad Padder
13 June 2020Book Review
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future. Viking, Penguin Books Ltd, London, 2018. pp. 312. Notes. Index. Pb. $6.94. ISBN 9780241336496
by Irshad Rashid and Manzoor Ahmad Padder. In his latest novel The Golden House Salman Rushdie offers an intriguing parable of modern American democracy. At the center of the novel is the story of Nero who shares uncanny resemblance with the (…) -
Book Review of Lise Morjé Howard, Power in Peacekeeping | Chiara Ruffa
13 June 2020Reviewed by Chiara Ruffa (Uppsala University)
Lise Morjé Howard. Power in Peacekeeping. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 274 pp. $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-108-45718-7
Lise Howard’s The Power of Peacekeeping is about how peacekeeping works and how peacekeepers achieve their ends. Building on Robert Dahl’s conceptualization of power, Howard argues that peacekeepers can be effective in three ways, via persuasion, inducement, and coercion.[1] Persuasion works mainly verbally, (…) -
The Rise of Domestic Violence and Relevance of ‘Ecofeminism’ in the Post Covid-19 World | Badre Alam Khan
13 June 2020by Badre Alam Khan
Since the announcement of stringent national lockdown across the world in general and India in particular, amidst Covid-19, gender-based violence (in the forms of sexual harassment, physical, sexual, mental and emotional sufferings) has now been increased significantly in the domestic sphere. In this respect, the WHO (World Health Organization), UN (United Nations) General Secretary and several Human Rights and women’s organizations have expressed their deep concern and (…) -
Video: What is McCarthyism? And how did it happen? - Ellen Schrecker | 5 mins 42 sec
11 June 2020In the 1950s, as part of a campaign to expose suspected Communists, thousands of individuals were aggressively investigated and questioned before government panels. Named after its most notorious practitioner, the phenomenon known as McCarthyism destroyed lives and careers. But how did this episode of political repression take off? Ellen Schrecker traces the history of McCarthyism. Lesson by Ellen Schrecker, animation by Patrick Smith.