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What happened to Professor Tejaswini Desai of Kolhapur can happen to anyone in the teaching community. It tells you of the perils of being a teacher in India of our times
Calling Manipur violence “state-sponsored”, a fact finding team of the National Federation of Indian Women has said that what is occurring currently in State is “not communal violence, nor a fight between two communities. It involves the questions of land, resources, and the presence of fanatics and militants.”
The PCPSPS statement says that the recent multiple train accident near Balasore in Odisha is a reminder that enhancing safety of railways must be given preference over the introduction of high-speed passenger trains. Also: “Modi Government Wants Trains That Run Faster Than a Bullet, But Can Railway Infrastructure Keep Up?”
The poorest 40% of Indians would have been better off today had Indira Gandhi not launched Operation Forward in 1982.
Fascistic elements move centre-stage only when they get the support of monopoly capital which provides them with ample money and media coverage. This happens when there is a capitalist crisis; the role of the fascistic elements in such a situation is to provide a diversion of discourse.
Previous BJP government in Himachal Pradesh entered a tripartite agreement with the GoI to obtain RDSS to improve the operational efficiencies and financial sustainability of HPSEBL. Is this agreement truly about efficient management, or is it a backdoor entry of the private players?
Uniformity versus Equal Rights: The 21st Law Commission report can and should form the basis for taking forward the struggle for women’s equal rights across communities; why is the BJP refusing to discuss this report. Also: “Why the Uniform Civil Code has Few Takers in the North East”.
For some villages, such as Bango, scores of people born disabled, bodies shrivelling at age 40, loss of land, property, and livelihood, are a normalised cry of pain.
Egypt’s president conferred on PM Modi the ‘Order of the Nile’. The Grand Mufti of Egypt discussed communal harmony with him. And yet, memories of the Gujarat carnage and daily news of lynchings make such updates sound hollow.
India appears to be running away from the complexities of the current world situation. That is why the salience of the virtual summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation [SCO] under India’s chairmanship on Tuesday becomes highly disturbing. Where is India’s SCO policy heading?
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