2023’s Unexpected and Unexplained Warming – And What 2024 Might Have in Store
A discussion on why 2023 was so exceptionally warm and what that might entail for our estimates of where 2024 will end up.
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Legendary Palestinian Resistance; World Rises in Support – 3 Articles
‘100 Days of War and Resistance: Legendary Palestinian Resistance Will Be Netanyahu’s Downfall’; ‘Israel’s War on Palestine and the Global Upsurge Against It’; ‘Hundreds of Thousands March for Gaza as World Demands Cease-Fire’.
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‘We the People’: A Call to Remember What the Indian Constitution Stands For
The constitution that the people of India gave to themselves was a product of mass struggle, political compromises, idealism and commitment to every citizen.
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The Chief Justice, the Father of the Nation and Saffron ‘Dhwaja’ – 3 Articles
‘The Chief Justice and the Father of the Nation’: What would Gandhi have thought of a serving chief justice making public visits to temples and giving interviews about it? Also: ‘Why CJI Chandrachud’s Statement on the “Saffron Dhwaja as a Unifying Symbol” Raises Red Flags’; and: ‘Must Justice Have a Colour?’.
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NITI Aayog’s Unbelievable Poverty Statistics – 4 Articles
‘Everything Wrong with NITI Aayog’s Claim of 24.8 Crore Emerging Out of Poverty in 9 Years’; ‘Niti Aayog “Poverty” Stats: Serious Theoretical, Methodological, Empirical Questions’; ‘Three Charts: What the Modi Government Wants Us to Forget Before the 2024 Lok Sabha Polls’; ‘Hunger, Undernutrition Stalking India; Placed Worse Than Least Developed Nations’.
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As PM, India’s Modi Secretly Tried to Massively Cut State Funds
Modi tried to force the Finance Commission to cut back on the amount of tax revenue meant for India’s states.
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‘Only Political Hindus Are Happy’: Shankaracharya on Ayodhya Ram Temple Consecration
Shankaracharya of Jyotish Peeth, Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati, says in an interview that religious Hindus who care about Hindu Shastras are unhappy over consecrating a place which is not fully built.
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Rethinking Employment and Industrialisation in India
Corporate-driven industrialisation has failed to create the jobs that India’s youth need. We need a different kind of growth based on reducing the productivity gap between rural and urban India. The author presents an agenda for raising rural productivity so that quality employment is created in the rural areas.
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Uttar Pradesh’s Rising Crime Rates Challenge BJP’s Narrative on Women’s Safety
Uttar Pradesh ranked as the top state for crimes against women in 2022. In 2023, multiple incidents involved the kidnapping and rape of women, with video clips of the crimes posted online. The State BJP unit faced criticism for shielding party leaders accused of sexual crimes against women and children.
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India’s ‘New Era’ and Western Imperialism in 2023: Parts 1 and 2
Some commentators view the Indian government’s recent foreign policy stances as assertions of its independence. However, the reality of India’s economic and political power is quite different. This article examines recent developments, to see how far India has shed the vestiges of its colonial past.
