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Kashmir: Towards peace with dignity

The November end update of statistics from the bean count in Kashmir was intended, as usual, to embellish Operation All Out, ongoing in Kashmir in its second iteration beginning mid-year. The detail has it that some 233 militants have been killed this year, overtaking ...

State Malfunction..!

As I see our government concentrating on non-issues, while the real issues are being ignored, I am reminded of an incident many years ago, when there was a wardrobe malfunction when a pretty model walking the ramp had to quickly cover herself with her hands as her dres...

Role of women in food security

"Women are also engaged in animal rearing, feeding, milking and other food systems like fishing, marketing of animal products, etc. A number of women look after animals at home while men are engaged in other jobs or occupations or migrate to cities in search of organis...

Feminist Theological view on Abortion and Catholic Church

"Feminist liberation theologians look to earth and not to heaven for the activities of the divine among us. Moreover, we look especially to women's lives for signs of God's work in the world. We look primarily to women as that massive group of human beings who historic...

Deconstructing the politics of renaming

A violent paradigm of governance went side by side with the politics of renaming in UP. The Yogi Adityanath Government came to power in the State in March, 2017. Let us see how is the State being governed under his leadership: "Over a thousand encounters i...

Laugh and Pick yourself Up..!

I was at the ice rink at Bryant Park near Times Square on Halloween around a month ago. The skating rink had ice on it and there were skaters zooming in and out, making patterns and impressing the crowd with smooth and beautiful moves. One girl in particular got my att...

India Can Save 3 Times Its GDP By Scaling Up Climate Goals

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India can save three times its gross domestic product (GDP) and help the world save a million lives a year if it scales up its climate actions to help the global community limit global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius (oC), said a World Health Organizati...

Chanakyas of the World..!

Quite a few decades ago I moved to the city of Bombay with a few rupees in my pocket and started peddling the product I was selling, from door to door. In one of the homes, I met a doctor, who became a close friend. "Bob!" said Dr Ashok Desai as we sat in his home cum ...

Patel resignation adds to problems of sagging economy

Clearly RBI Governor Urjit Patel's abrupt resignation on Monday is yet another example of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government's interference with independence of iInstitutions in the country. Patel has not spelt out the details of his resignation except to cite ...

Pappu..!

And as I watched the elections results unfold, one word stood stark against the background of the country: Pappu! From day one, people, even supporters of the Congress party started using the rather derogatory name, lampooning the young Rahul, even before he had start...

War of words between BJP & Cong will not change GDP numbers

To be sure, these estimates did not follow the standard methodology used for calculating internationally calculating internationally comparable GDP estimates, some economists argue.
A war of words has broken out between the Congress and the BJP following the change in base year for calculating the GDP growth for the country. A controversy has also ensued between economists on whether the change in base year is in touch with economic realities or ...

A Good Human Being..!

Very often I come across lines or a verse which arrives at the right time. I'm sure its happened to all of you; somebody sends you a poem or lines from a spiritual book, lines which come to your rescue in the situation you are facing. This is how this poem landed with ...

Rahul Gandhi's Hinduism on display and RSS-BJP's Hindutva

Is a display of religiosity the same as 'soft Hindutva'?
Hindutva politics is based on the Brahmanical hierarchy of caste and gender. It aims to gradually do away with secular democracy and bring in a Hindu Nation. To combat this, what is needed is the adoption of an inclusive concept of Gandhi's Hinduism, where the values o...

A Tired Nation..!

Bruised, battered and beaten, a tired nation stares back at me. "What's wrong?" I ask concerned. "We can't take being pushed, pulled and pummeled every moment of the day!" cries the nation, "Either it's a lynching mob stringing up someone, or government agencies being...
 

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