Walking for Truth: Snapshots from the Bharat Jodo Yatra – 3 Articles
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Walking for Truth: Snapshots from the Bharat Jodo Yatra – 3 Articles

A long walk is a political act of perseverance. It renounces the lure of instant gratification and advocates caution over hurried conclusions. It seeks consensus through conversations instead of demanding make-believe acceptance through oratory and theatrics. It believes in sanity over frenzy. There are signs that it will work eventually.

MBBS in Hindi? But Why Were Engg Courses in Hindi Dropped a Year After Launch?
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MBBS in Hindi? But Why Were Engg Courses in Hindi Dropped a Year After Launch?

Madhya Pradesh claims to have become the first state to fulfil PM Modi’s vision to start medical and technical education in Hindi. But it is silent on why the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi University, set up with much fanfare in 2011 by the Chouhan government to provide technical, medical, and engineering courses in Hindi, is now on the verge of closure.

Nod to Herbicide Tolerant GM Mustard Will be Strongly Resisted: Union Govt Warned
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Nod to Herbicide Tolerant GM Mustard Will be Strongly Resisted: Union Govt Warned

In a letter to the Union Minister for Environment and Climate Change, the civil society organisation has objected to recent steps being taken to give permission for commercial cultivation of GM mustard, stating that the biosafety assessment of GM mustard has been ignored.

Power Dynamics? Local Healthcare Dubbed Non-Scientific, ‘Needing’ Allopathic Nod
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Power Dynamics? Local Healthcare Dubbed Non-Scientific, ‘Needing’ Allopathic Nod

Civil society organizations and healers’ networks have been advocating to bring the indigenous and local healthcare traditions into the main fold of healthcare provisioning. However, allopathic medicine continues to create distrust in indigenous and local healthcare tradition systems.