Are Anti-Conversion Laws Antithetical to the Constitution of India?
In recent years, a slew of anti-conversion laws have been passed in many states. They blur the line between forced conversions and the right to choose one’s religion.
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Shooting the Messenger: Adverse Health Trends Revealed in the NFHS (5) 2019-2021
In a bizarre development, the government has ‘suspended’ the director of the institute responsible for carrying out the periodic NFHS. The fifth report of the Survey, relating to 2019-21, showed substantial worsening of some health indicators for children and women in particular.
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One More Reason Why Private Schools Must Be Nationalised
Private schools will never remain accountable to the government. If we have to prevent incident like the one described in this article, it is one more reason that now India must nationalize education and implement a common school system.
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Parakala Prabhakar: ‘Cylinders to the Poor, Airports to a Friend’
The political economist does not mince words or try to deflect blame away from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He calls him staggeringly incompetent. But at the same time, he also says that democracy is a shared responsibility of all citizens, and so also says: “It is us, as a people, who must ultimately take the blame.”
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Gandhian Institutions Under Attack; NAPM Condemns Attack on Newsclick – Two Press Releases
“Gandhian Institutions Under Attack! Sarva Sewa Sangh Campus, in Rajghat, Varanasi, Bulldozed!”; Also: “NAPM Condemns the Vindictive Targeting of Progressive Media Houses, Including NewsClick”.
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Who Lit the Fires in Nuh?
The Meo Muslims of Nuh shared tight bonds and socio-cultural life with Hindus for centuries. But lynchings and hate killings since 2017 have torn them apart.
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AUKUS, QUAD Transforming Alliance-Like
This week augurs an acceleration of strategic realignments among the big powers amidst growing signs of a new cold war globally with particular focus on the United States’ containment strategy against China playing out in the Indo-Pacific region.
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France Never Stopped Looting Africa, Now the Tables are Turning
As developments in West Africa demonstrate, the francophone countries are no longer willing to accept French neo-colonialism. With the fear factor finally removed, Africa’s quest for genuine independence is steadily coming to fruition.
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Algeria and France: The Anticolonial Struggle Continues
There has been a strong drive in Algeria to rid itself of its colonial past, reducing the use of French in discourse, education and the media and this in turn has generated more anti-French feeling in the country.
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Eritrea Celebrates Freedom
Eritrea is a small nation on the Horn of Africa with a population of only 6 million people. In 1991 it emerged as an independent country after years of war with Ethiopia and is decidedly socialist, which is why the U.S. has remained so hostile to its existence.
