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By the late 1970s, the Nehru model was in crisis. In the early 1980s, the Indian Government decided to approach the IMF for a huge foreign loan, in return for which it offered to voluntarily implement economic reforms and partially liberalise the economy.
Why does Narendra Modi feel the need to protect Adani to that extent vis-à-vis the American investigators? We must get back to the genesis of their relationship in Gujarat to respond – partly – to this puzzle.
‘The People of Uttarakhand and Himachal Want Roads, Not Landslides’: An interview with environmentalist Ravi Chopra. Also: ‘Flash Flood in the Himalayas Reignites Debate on Development’.
‘“Sedition” Case: Supreme Court Protects The Wire from “Coercive Action” by Assam Police’; ‘Assam Police Invoke Sedition Law in Second Case Against The Wire’; ‘Indian Journalists’ Union Hails Supreme Court’s Interim Protection of The Wire’; ‘Journalists’ Organisations Speak Against Assam Police’s Actions’.
‘Kashmir: Ink, Irony and Insecurity’: As the J&K Home Department bans 25 books by intellectuals, we must understand that it is not just the ink, but the imagination, the inquiry and the unforgetting histories which are under attack. Also: ‘In Kashmir, Bookshop Raids Follow No Laws, Books Seized are Available in Other States and Online’.
Each large-scale demolition inflicts a thousand quietly weeping wounds on our democracy: by stripping citizens of their constitutional right to vote under Article 326 of the Constitution, it erodes the very soul of India’s democratic fabric, leaving behind a legacy of disenfranchisement and despair.
Over the past decade, a series of ‘terrorism’ cases have crumbled. The ‘terror innocents’ who walk free only face a life of unfreedom.
‘Gorakhnath’s “Stolen” Legacy: Lalu’s Cultural Counter to Hindutva Ahead of Bihar Election’: Lalu’s revelation that Gorakhnath stood for inclusivity, coexistence, love and a harmonious synthesis of Hindu and Muslim faiths has the potential to challenge the Hindutva narrative. Also: ‘An Introduction to Saint Gorakhnath and His Inclusive Legacy’.
If urban modernity is built on denial of dignity to those who clean it, then what kind of progress is it?
‘Aurangzeb is a Severely Misunderstood Figure’; ‘A Caricature of “Aurangzeb the Bigot” Serves Many Modern Political Interests in India: An Interview with the Historian Audrey Truschke’: Truschke says that this depiction of Aurangzeb is both misleading and ahistorical.
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