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The assault on Gaza shows how a population can be subjugated while maintaining international legitimacy. Hindutva’s interest in Israel is to learn this method.
‘Delay and Deference in India’s Courts and Other Institutions Have Normalised the Government’s Disregard of Laws and Constitutional Guarantees’; ‘The Communal, Criminal Injustice of the Stories of Bilkis Bano and Maya Kodnani’.
By keeping cess and surcharge outside the divisible pool and ending State-specific grants, the Finance Commission sided with the Centre’s Machiavellian moves, tightening fiscal federalism in ways that may weaken the Union.
‘The Adivasi Imprint on the Constitution and the Republic’s Amnesia’: Has the Constitution failed India’s aboriginals, or was the faith of their forefathers tragically misplaced? Also: ‘Why Self-Rule Still Matters in India’s Tribal Homelands’: The tribals continue to push for fundamentally different forms of democracy and governance through the scheduling provisions under Article 244.
‘The Global War Over Seeds’: How corporations privatise the seeds of the Global South, including India, through patents, destroying biodiversity and trampling farmers’ rights. Also: ‘Farmers in India Reject the Seeds Bill and the Corporate Enclosure of Seeds’.
The NEP’s aims are multifaceted – more control over states, institutions and curricula; exclusion; segregation; rebranding of ‘model’ schools; closing and merging of schools; deletion, distortion, ‘Indianisation’ or Brahminisation of curricula; skilling; corporatisation, commercialisation …
‘Is No One in India Jobless After They Turn 30? Data Has the Answer’; ‘Why Skilling Alone Will Not Solve India’s Employment Problem’: The Union Budget should have prioritised development expenditure which is employment creating in nature.
‘Studying Subhash Chandra Bose: Debunking “Popular Myths” Through Bose’: The three primary myths are about Nehru and Bose’s relations, Bose and Patel’s relations and why Bose’s appropriation by the communal forces is the greatest irony. Also: ‘Netaji’s Vision of Secular Unity Remains Vital as India Faces Religious Polarisation’.
On the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, this two-part series explores how international law recognizes FGM as torture—and why, as a jus cogens norm, the prohibition against torture cannot be derogated from under any circumstances.
Two prominent Jewish historians have recently written from different perspectives – one economic and political; one largely theological and moral – that the state of Israel is doomed and living on borrowed time.
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