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“Global, Regional, Internal: How Many More Self Goals Will the Modi Government Score?”; “India’s Strategic Loneliness in the Age of Trump: Why It Needs a Nehru Now”: The problem for India is that the West is not the only front that it is having trouble with. Things are not going well in the South Asian neighbourhood as well.
The author critically traces the 25-year journey of the public sector firm Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), and seeks to bring out how a real possibility and promise of indigenous development under the public sector was lost.
IndiGo’s crisis shows how liberalised aviation leans on forbearance—profits first, safety later, with the State and passengers holding turbulence.
The twelfth and concluding part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey: From Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the measures the Government of India can take to increase its revenues to finance universal, free, good-quality education for all children, and also increase its social sector expenditures in other areas.
“From Living Landscapes to Extractable Matter: The Aravalli Verdict in Perspective”: By reducing the Aravallis to a numerical height threshold, the ruling converts a richly interconnected ecological landscape into a narrow technical category. Also: “Aravallis on Trial: When Law Protects Profit, Not Life”; and “Redefining Aravallis: Theft of the Commons”.
ASHA workers, India’s frontline health workers, handle a range of tasks: from fever surveillance, antenatal care to accompanying pregnant women to healthcare facilities. The bulk of India’s healthcare data is generated and maintained by these frontline workers. For this, they are paid an honorarium which is barely enough to make ends meet.
Despite a budget that exceeds some States, the BMC has failed to address a chronic civic issue that has cost the city several lives.
If there is one common thread that runs through the six-month tenure of Chief Justice B.R. Gavai – which ends today – it is that he treated his Chief Justiceship as a ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ story. If there was some long-standing precedent that he did not like, he used his powers as the master of the roster to overturn it…
“’Christmas Is to Christians What Diwali Is to Us’: What Today’s India Can Learn from Gandhi”; “To Those Who Persecute Christians”; “Sangh Scares Off Santa: A Christmas of Fear”: A sustained hate campaign drives this violence, portraying Christians as threats to Hindu culture. Anti-Christian propaganda has caused a 500% surge in attacks over the decade.
“Whose Life Counts? Anjel Chakma’s Death and the Idea of India Today”: Constitutional values endure not because they are written down, but because citizens insist on enacting them. Anjel Chakma’s death demands such insistence, not only as mourning, but as constitutional vigilance. Also: “In Memory of Anjel Chakma, a Candlelight Vigil in Delhi”.
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