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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Anti-colonial third world nationalism is entirely different from the nationalism that developed in Europe in the 17th century. It is best reflected in the difference between the nationalism of a Hitler, which is descended from European nationalism, and that of a Ho Chi Minh, which exemplifies anti-colonial nationalism.
The protests might be sparked by irregularities in a public examination, but they point to larger, deeper developmental issues in the State.
More than 24,000 ‘instructors’—teachers on contract—are paid Rs 7,000 per month to teach classes one to eight in Uttar Pradesh, making up 4% of government school teachers. Many now moonlight as salesmen, tailors, rickshaw drivers and workers in a state with India’s fifth lowest literacy rate.
People around Arshinakeri (Koppal Dt, Karnataka) are concerned about government’s proposal to construct a nuclear power plant (NPP) in their vicinity. They fear for their health and safety due to nuclear contamination from the NPP proposed there.
The Central Ground Water Board’s latest report on groundwater quality in the country reveals widespread contamination, with nearly 20% of samples exceeding permissible pollutant limits. Major pollutants include nitrates, fluoride, arsenic and uranium.
Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi recently accompanied Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on a visit to a temple near Mhow, where they propitiated a deity together, with the Army Chief dressed in traditional devotee attire.
In Ladakh, two drastically opposite visions of energy transition are colliding head-on. The first a grassroots, indigenous approach that emphasises on low-impact and socio-ecologically just energy practices; the other a government and corporate driven, technocratic vision pushing for large-scale energy infrastructure and critical mineral mining.
Official economists have been making strenuous attempts to show that a huge reduction in poverty has taken place in the country during the past 10 years. In this article, we first critically analyse these claims, and then present several other datasets about the real state of poverty and hunger levels in the country.
With the government assuming that India’s external sector situation is very comfortable, the FM’s budget speech does not contain even a single line regarding the external accounts situation of our country! In this fourth article of our budget analysis of the past 10 years, we discuss India’s external accounts situation.
A primary responsibility of the government is, of course, to keep us safe. Given that obligation, you might think that the Washington establishment would be hard at work trying to prevent the ultimate catastrophe — a nuclear war. But you would be wrong.
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