Mainstream Weekly

The spectre of spiralling violence: Apocalyptic crossroads? A troubling larger picture | S.G.Vombatkere

S G Vombatkere — 2025-04-27T07:38:32Z

The barbaric Pahalgam terrorist attack of April 22nd 2025 (ironically Earth Day) appallingly targetting Hindus, is shocking and condemnable beyond words. This latest terrorist attack is an attempt by the perpetrators, to intensify the narrative of religious communal division, by holding entire societies to ransom. A terrorist outfit named The Resistance Front, reportedly claims responsibility for the attack.
The President and PM and other constitutional appointees at Centre and the States, (…)

- 2025

About People

S G Vombatkere — 2025-01-11T23:27:04Z

- 2025

Interlinking Rivers: The story from scratch | S.G.Vombatkere

S G Vombatkere — 2025-01-04T02:21:39Z

The interlinking of rivers (ILR) is ill-conceived, ruinously expensive, technically questionable, ecologically devastating, and socially disruptive. Here

- 2025

Covid-19 and the explosive Pfizer documents | S G Vombatkere

S G Vombatkere — 2024-10-19T16:04:00Z

October 26, 2024
A time of fear and panic
Coronaviruses are a group of related viruses which cause disease in mammals and birds. The SARS-CoV-2 virus manifests as Covid-19 disease in humans. It is highly contagious and spreads very fast.
Covid-19 became a global public health emergency in 2020. Today, over five years later, it doesn

- 2024

Demands of Ladakhi people —Statement by Maj Gen S.G.Vombatkere

S G Vombatkere — 2024-10-05T02:19:56Z

*Statement by Maj Gen S.G.Vombatkere (Retd), 30.09.2024*
Over 200 Ladakhi people of all ages, left Leh on 2nd September 2024, walking in peaceful procession over very difficult high-altitude, mountainous terrain, to reach Delhi on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanthi, 2nd October 2024.
The purpose of the Ladakhis' peaceful and disciplined procession led by Shri Sonam Wangchuk, is to express and convey the aspirations and demands of Ladakhi people to the Central Government.
Their main (…)

- 2024

Small Modular Reactors: Will they change anything? | S.G.Vombatkere

S G Vombatkere — 2024-09-07T01:59:54Z

In her 2024 Union Budget speech, the Finance Minister said, "Nuclear energy is expected to form a very significant part of the energy mix of Viksit Bharat. Towards that pursuit, our government will partner with private firms for setting up of Bharat Small Reactors, conduct research and development on Bharat Small Modular Reactor and newer technologies for nuclear energy". Funding for R&D in Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology is budgeted at ₹1-trillion.
India already has 22 (…)

- 2024

The Impacts of Development on People | S.G.Vombatkere

S G Vombatkere — 2024-07-19T22:03:42Z

July 14, .2024
People's protests – almost all peaceful – all across India, have been active for decades, many of them morphing into people's movements for advancing their demands, needs and aspirations to governments. These protest movements demand the rights to which people are entitled by law, but are not given or snatched away, due to state or central governments' development policies, proposals, plans and projects.
This article is an attempt to examine the links between people (…)

- 2024

Controversy at Kolkata's ICAI International Conference | S.G.Vombatkere

S G Vombatkere — 2024-06-21T22:16:00Z

If an individual wishes to avoid contact with persons of the female gender, he is at liberty to do so, in his personal, private spaces. However, such a person insisting that girls and women should be banished from his vicinity or field of vision in a public place, is to insist upon gender segregation. It would show gender discrimination, and denial of equality of status and of opportunity to women, and perhaps even misogyny. Sadly, this is what happened recently in an international space. (…)

- 2024

NPR-NRC-CAA – A Detailed Review CAA-2019 should be repealed | S.G.Vombatkere

S G Vombatkere — 2024-03-15T12:59:13Z

March 15, 2024
The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA, hereinafter), amended the Citizenship Act 1955 (CA1955, hereinafter). However, an Act can only be implemented after the associated Rules are notified. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) notified the Citizenship Amendment Rules 2024 (CAR2024, hereinafter) on 11.3.2024, 51-months later.
Not unjustifiably, notifying CAR2024 when general elections are about to be announced, is being viewed as politically motivated. However, leaving (…)

- 2024

The Bharatiya Sanhitas – Sedition on Steroids? Policy flip-flop or strategy? | S.G.Vombatkere

S G Vombatkere — 2024-01-05T02:29:04Z

Watershed moment
On December 8, 2023, HM Amit Shah announced in the Lok Sabha, that new Bharatiya Sanhita legislations were being introduced to replace British era enactments relating to criminal law, to Indianize the criminal justice mechanism. The Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita Bill 2023 (BNS, hereinafter) replaces the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha (Second) Sanhita Bill 2023 (BNSS, hereinafter) replaces the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), and the Bharatiya (…)

- 2024