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The Migrant and the Moral Economy of the Elite

“The movement of individuals shall remain ‘strictly prohibited’ between 7 pm and 7 am except for essential activities.” – Ministry of Home Affairs circular (as reported by India Today, May 17) The circular offered ‘relief for migrant workers by allowing inter-state m...

ATTENTION HIJACKERS

People who succumb to screens aren’t weak-willed, stupid, or lazy. They’re successful professionals, striving students & loving parents. They’re organized and used to pursuing hard goals. Their behavior isn’t a natural reaction to an increasingly connected age but ins...

Killing of man, son in Tamil Nadu; Custodial killings on rise in India

SIGNS OF THE TIMES
“And if one were to focus on the situation in the Kashmir Valley, news reports of the last few months have been carrying news of the ‘encounters’ taking place in and around the Valley, and the numbers killed or shot dead. No question of questions and counter- questions...

How Vietnam Managed to Keep its Coronavirus Death Toll at Zero

When the world looked to Asia for successful examples in handling the novel coronavirus outbreak, much attention and plaudits were paid to South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. But there’s one overlooked success story — Vietnam. The country of 97 million people has not r...

July 2, 1984: When the edifice of ‘Abdullah legacy’ was mortally breached

Farooq Abdullah, like his father, in 1953, had committed the cardinal sin of over-estimating their prowess vis a vis New Delhi. The following years and decades would reveal, ‘New Delhi’ had always coveted Kashmir’s ‘special status’, irrespective of the ideological c...

Lives of Marginalized Matter; When will their suffocation End?

In Minneapolis, US an African American, George Floyd lost his life as the white policeman, Derek Chauvin, caught hold of him and put his knee on his neck. This is a technique developed by Israel police. For nine long minutes the knee of the while policeman was on the n...

Black Lives Matter Movement: Democracy and Social Prejudices in US and India”

“While there is some cautious optimism about the rights of blacks in US after the Black Lives Matter Movement triggered by the strangulation of George Floyd, the same optimism cant be shared about the rights of vulnerable communities in India”, said Prof. Suhas Palshik...

Shooting a messenger, a Goebbelian trend and an Orwellian dystopia which needs to be negated

Jammu and Kashmir always remains in the news for all the wrong reasons, for some it is like a carcass and they try to skin as much flesh as they can from it while for some it is a land of uncountable tales and stories documented, undocumented, told and untold. The trou...

Climate crisis is creating catastrophic cyclones

“Potential intensity has been increasing, in general, as global mean surface temperatures have increased, and there is an assumption that the distribution of TC intensity responds by shifting toward greater intensity.” Super cyclone Amphan has recently left ...
 

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