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Decoding Nepal Unrest

S N Sahu — 2025-09-13T05:12:27Z

After the unprecedented protest and unrest in Nepal against host of problems including endemic corruption attributed to political leaders of all hues and officialdom President Ram Chandra Poudel administered oath of office to the 73-year-old former Chief Justice, Sushila Karki, to assume office as the interim Prime Minister, making her the first woman to lead the country. Karki agreed to take that responsibility on the condition that she would be free to investigate corruption at high (…)

- 2025

Odisha's First-Ever BJP CM's Track Record | S N Sahu

S N Sahu — 2024-06-14T22:04:37Z

June 13 2024
Mohan Majhi's demand in 2022 for the release of the killers of Graham Staine and his children, if implemented, would have harmed the state's communal harmony.
Odisha has got a new government with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and fourth-time MLA, Mohan Charan Majhi, taking oath as Chief Minister on June 12, 2024. This is the first-ever BJP government in the state that assumed office after Biju Janata Dal's Naveen Patnaik fell short of the majority mark by winning only (…)

- 2024

Repeated Violations of the Constitution by the Modi regime & A People's Movement to Make “Save the Constitution”an Electoral Issue | S.N. Sahu

S N Sahu — 2024-05-04T03:57:00Z

The INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) alliance partners consisting of several opposition parties met in Mumbai on 1st September 2023 and declared, among others, that they came together to save the Constitution and democracy from the relentless onslaught of BJP and Modi regime. Little did they realise at that time that the issue of saving the Constitution would become a key electoral issue in the 2024 general elections and Dalits, scheduled tribes, Other Backward (…)

- 2024

Enduring Significance of Utkal Gaurab Madhusudan Das | S N Sahu

S N Sahu — 2024-04-20T10:41:00Z

On 28th April this year the birth anniversary of Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Das is being celebrated. On that day in 1848 he was born and his many splendoured legacy which, among others, encapsulated his pioneering initiative to launch a movement for establishment of Orissa (now Odisha) as separate British province on the basis of language constituted a significant step not just for Odisha but the whole of India. That movement led by him brought together Odia speaking areas forming part of (…)

- 2024

Resonance of Odisha”s Rich Legacy in Our Time as the State Celebrates its Foundation Day on 1st April | S N Sahu

S N Sahu — 2024-03-29T11:45:00Z

1st April is celebrated as the Odisha Day. It was on that day in 1936 the British province of Orissa (now Odisha) was created on the basis of Odia language by uniting together the Odia speaking areas some of which were part of other provinces such as Bengal, Madras, Bihar and Central Province. The birth of Odisha as a separate province on account of its linguistic identity was truly historic as it represented the vision of our leadership during freedom struggle to reorganise States on the (…)

- 2024

Locating Caste Survey of Bihar in the Context of President K R Narayanan's Vision on Affirmative Action | S N Sahu

S N Sahu — 2023-11-04T14:48:00Z

On 9th November 2005 former President of India K R Narayanan passed away at the age of eighty-five. This year when the solemn occasion of his death anniversary is being observed on 9th November there is a countrywide discussion on the details of the data concerning the Bihar Government's historic caste survey which was released on 2nd October 2023, on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary, and tabled in the State Assembly two days back on 7th November.
Convergence of Caste (…)

- 2023

A Little Credit When Due: Gandhi, Nehru Envisioned More Elected Women Leaders | S.N. Sahu

S N Sahu — 2023-09-23T02:17:00Z

21 Sep 2023
The quest for adequate representation for women in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies is a long pending demand, which India's founding fathers considered just and necessary.
The Constitution One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth (Amendment) Bill 2023, providing reservation for women in 33% of seats of the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies, including the Assembly of Delhi, has been tabled in Parliament. It is a categorical imperative to flag that Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru put (…)

- 2023

Why PM Modi's Thousand-Year-Old Slavery Narrative in His Independence Day Speech Distorts History and Negates the Vision of Gandhi, Nehru and Netaji Subhas Bose | S N Sahu

S N Sahu — 2023-08-18T21:48:00Z

Prime Minister Modi while addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on 15th August 2023 stated that India suffered slavery for a thousand years following the defeat of a small kingdom of India 1000-1200 years ago. He is the first Prime Minister of India to have said so while delivering his speech on independence day. No other Prime Minister ever made such a claim.
Modi's Narrative of Thousand-Year-Old Slavery in India and Abroad
He did not say this for (…)

- 2023

Modi Regime Can Dismiss European Parliament Resolution Against Hindutva Based Divisive ideology But not Gandhi, Nehru and Ambedkar who Rejected it | S N Sahu

S N Sahu — 2023-07-15T03:26:00Z

July 18, 2023
India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, in a special letter to Chief Ministers written on 9th September 1948, observed, “We must, at all costs, and with all our strength prevent any communal deterioration in any province”. “The consequence of this,” he said, “will be harmful to us in many ways”, Cautioning that “Nationally, this will impede our effort and produce complications,” he warned that “Internationally, it will not only injure our good name but may have (…)

- 2023

NCP Split Signals Pincer Attack of BJP on the Opposition | S N Sahu

S N Sahu — 2023-07-07T19:06:00Z

With Ajit Pawar taking oath as Deputy Chief Minister and eight other Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLAs as Cabinet Ministers in Maharashtra, both Prime Minister Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah nourish the fond hope that such inductions from NCP would bolster their political strategy, after splitting Shiv Sena in 2022, for winning most of the State's 48 Lok Sabha seats in 2024 general elections. After Eknath Shinde took over as Chief Minister last year an aggressive campaign has (…)

- 2023