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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Radicalism, the Prime Minister should know, is born in the perceived absence of a conscience in those who control the levers of the Indian State. Radicalisation is suicidal for the weak—and Muslims certainly know that. It is also suicidal for India.
The first prime minister’s legacy isn’t easy to wipe out, but the BJP-RSS will keep trying to erase it unless there is pushback.
While attempts by the ruling party to control the media and the messaging are not new in India, what we see now is the use of new technology to ‘curate’ and exercise ‘centralised control’ to spread disinformation in order to harass and intimidate critics.
With the massive depression of demand that has taken place due to the lockdowns and the Government’s refusal to spend, many rural households that were earlier struggling to keep from falling would have been pushed over the edge.
Rammanohar Lohia embodied some noble aspirations for his country and represented an important strand of opinion in Indian political life. And in the socialist movement, his was the decisive influence at many critical turning points.
India under PM Modi seems to have lost the plot completely. Does it want strategic autonomy, or does it want to tie itself to a waning imperial power, the United States? The current path seems more and more a path toward losing its stature as an independent player.
If the Union government thinks that the Global Hunger Index’s methodology is ‘unscientific’, here is another Index that shows a troubling picture for the state of ‘Access Inequality in Basic Amenities’ across India.
Sections that give the police the power to disperse a crowd with force have been abused, resulting in hundreds of deaths.
The absolute number of persons ‘employed’ in agriculture in 2019-20 rose a massive 17.3 per cent over the figure for 2018-19. But this is not a sign of prosperity but hardship.
From Love Songs to Kurta Ads, Urdu Is Popular with Indians. Why do Hindutva Backers Hate it So Much?; Who Says Urdu Is a Muslim Language?
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