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Have Modi-Shah halted the Rival MLA defection game?

Toppling non-NDA governments might backfire on BJP
The BJP has acted wisely in asking its party leaders to refrain from toppling Congress governments in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress in West Bengal. The BJP leaders of these states were guided by the strong attack made b...

Indira Gandhi and Rajiv are not "martyrs"

RSS mouthpiece 'organiser' says in an article’
In the eyes of the RSS Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi cannot be described as "martyrs". Their killings were nothing but murders. This opinion is contained in an article published in the "organiser" which is regarded as the periodical which propagates RSS views. This ar...

Iran's Game

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The evidence is far from conclusive, but on balance Iran probably is behind the attacks on four oil tankers in the Gulf last month and two more last Thursday. That attacks carefully avoided human casualties, so if they were Iranian, what was its goal? If it was Iran,...

Kashmir Today: Striving for peace, need to address alienation

"Since the Narendra Modi government has returned with a thumping majority, any plan of action by the BJP on Kashmir should give due importance to the strengthening of dialogue and deepening of the process of democracy." After the massive mandate in the 2019 General E...

Why being an Intellectual has become risky in Modi's India

It is difficult to draw the line between an 'ordinary' citizen questioning the fate of his tax money in a tea shop and an 'intellectual' who does the same through writing. Where does one draw the line between a so-called ordinary person and an "intellectual"? To be an...

Brexit and Drugs

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A drug bust can ruin your whole day, so it's best to have a get-out-of-jail-free card ready. In the United States being white will usually make the police take a charitable view, but in the United Kingdom the best strategy is to say that you are planning to go into pol...

Moral Education through School curriculum

"Destiny of a nation is shaped in her classrooms" is the apt observation of Kothari Education Commission and there is no controversy over it rather all educationalists agree to this postulate. But then those people who are morally and ethically strong lead to a moral a...

Environmental Protection

Encouraging Illegal Planting of Bt Brinjal in India: Political Posturing, Displaying Contempt for the Wider Public Interest
"The moratorium on Bt brinjal occurred because science won out against a regulatory process that lacked competency, possessed endemic conflicts of interest and demonstrated a lack of expertise in GMO risk assessment protocols, including food safety assessment and the a...

Democracy is all about numbers

Democracy is the government by majority and in this respect it is the game of numbers and this has amply been proved in the recently held Lok Sabha elections of 2019. While democracy is all about numbers but then national issues, nationalism, patriotism, country's secu...

Sanctions Are Genocidal, and They Are the US's Favorite Weapon

"Sometimes billed as an alternative to war, sanctions are in fact a weapon of war. Far from precision-guided munitions, sanctions are weapons of starvation, which target the most vulnerable civilians for slow and painful death by deprivation of food and medicine. They ...

Akshaya Patra imposing vegetarian food mono culture on children

"There are risks of Akshaya Patra vision of culture. It attempts to homogenise the food habits. It imposes a vegetarian culture in the name of hygiene and 'good health' which need to be questioned. But the most important thing is for the government and authorities. Why...

This trade neither free nor fair

India is being arm-twisted to transfer wealth to the US
"India's inability to stand up to such pressure tactic stems from its increasing reliance on US defence equipment purchase as part of its strategic partnership - and the agenda of 'interoperability' that Washington successfully pushed with India during the past decade ...

'End of India' visualised by Khushwant Singh

SIGNS OF THE TIMES
There was something or everything so very extraordinarily different to Khushwant Singh that even after five years of his passing away, he holds sway. At the recently concluded Khushwant Singh Literary Festival at King's College London, it got more than apparent that th...

Emotional Editing

There is too much communication in the world today. Messages, DMs, Emojis, FaceTime, Tweets, Likes, Comments and old school conversation has overloaded us with opinions about the world and primarily ourselves, as we talk at each other and not to each other. Emotional i...
 

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