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Angela Rangad’s extraordinary solo protest ended with the Meghalaya government calling her for consultations on better implementation of the Chief Minister’s Relief Against Wage Loss scheme.
Opinion: Bhagwat’s Glasnost in RSS-Muslim Ties Is Welcome, But Can He Rein in Modi and Adityanath?; Counterview: The RSS’s Age-Old Agenda Is the Same, No Matter What Mohan Bhagwat Says; The Burden of Being ‘Bharatiya’ in Mohan Bhagwat’s Hindu Rashtra.
This is another conversation with Thiru K Veermani which was recorded on November 1st, 2019. Veeramani says that Periyar was not opposed to Hindi, he was against its imposition on Tamil Nadu; the RSS wants to impose Hindutva culture on Tamil Nadu.
“True deaths are likely to be in the several millions, not hundreds of thousands, making this arguably India’s worst human tragedy,” said its authors, one of whom is a former chief economic adviser to the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Starting Thursday, about 200 protestors will participate in the farmers’ parliament at Jantar Mantar, which will take place on each working day of the Parliament until the ongoing Monsoon Session ends. Also – Farmers’ tractor marches in UP.
On July 19, 1969, 14 major banks were nationalised in the country. Today, after 52 years there is talk again of privatising the nationalised banks, which naturally raises the question: why were banks nationalised at all?
The CJI rightly asked why independent India needs a colonial-era law used to convict freedom fighters, for the law cannot persist unless a vestige of colonial mindset persists.
For Stan’s thousands of admirers, the challenge is clearly to join the Adivasi people in their fight to be treated as equal human beings and also upholding their traditions, far superior to those of the ‘civilised’.
The hate-filled and menacing messages on some WhatsApp groups are frightening in their implications.
To fight hunger and distress due to the pandemic, India must universalise foodgrain distribution, expand the food basket in its rations scheme and provide cash transfers. Plus article: Addressing the Nutrition Crisis in India in the Time of Covid 19 Pandemic.
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