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Many of today’s aspiring political scientists use the course as a tool to crack the civil services code, thereby losing the loftier goals at the heart of the discipline.
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Many of today’s aspiring political scientists use the course as a tool to crack the civil services code, thereby losing the loftier goals at the heart of the discipline.
The concept of ‘cumulative radicalisation’ given by the British historian, Sir Ian Kershaw, to explain the horrors of Nazi Germany is a useful mechanism to explain India’s plunge towards the kind of violence and persecution that has been the hallmark of the Narendra Modi regime.
The majority in India must talk about its insensitivity to the pain of those it considers ‘others’.
She is a single journalist working mostly alone, without institutional support, and largely for international publications. This makes her particularly vulnerable, but also more determined.
2 articles: Profits Before People: The Facebook Papers Expose Tech Giant Greed; and: Internal Documents Show Facebook Wavered in Checking Misinformation, Hate Speech in India: Report.
Social media propaganda, complete with hashtags, trends and concocted videos, seems to have one single aim: to boycott Muslim-owned and run businesses.
The intensely researched work, which came before the current politicised antagonism towards the Mughals, ‘Mughal Samrat Akbar Aur Sanskrit’ is a unique volume.
It underlines their vicious Islamophobia, investment in controlling female sexuality, and a preference for religious segregation.
Recent estimates made by the Economist suggest that the global toll of the pandemic is 16 million, more than three times the official toll of COVID-19 deaths. Estimates of India’s pandemic excess deaths range from between 3 to 5 million deaths, a quarter of total global pandemic deaths.
In driving out ‘illegal encroachers’ from farms for an agriculture project that does not interest native Assamese, the BJP govt is dispossessing productive Bengali Muslim farmers, many of whom say they bought land from locals and have been paying land taxes, some for up to 70 years.
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