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Opposition unity has greatly increased the likelihood of a defeat for the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha election. However, democracies can only survive if their leaders are willing to accept defeat and fight for power through the ballot, instead of the bullet. Modi has shown a reluctance to do this throughout the 22 years he has enjoyed power at Gandhinagar and Delhi.
The amendment Bill is set to come up for discussion in the upcoming monsoon session of parliament. More than 400 Ecologists, and over 100 Civil Servants have written to the government expressing their concerns over the amendment Bill. Also: “Citizens, Climate Action Groups Protest Against the Amendment Bill.”
Muslim women are in favour of gender-just laws, but Muslim women’s groups recognise that the women have to contest both the Muslim Personal Law and the politics around the demonisation of everything that is Muslim.
In this paper, the author seeks to discuss Lohia’s attempts to develop an indigenous, autonomous socialism as an alternative to Nehruvian socialism or Eurocentred socialism.
The failure of too many in the mainstream press is not only inexcusable, but ominous.
“The Return of Child Labor Is the Latest Sign of American Decline”; and: “To Hear the Wail of the Children: Hard Exploitative Times”. Concerted efforts are being made in the USA to weaken or repeal statutes that have inhibited or prevented the possibility of exploiting children.
We need a little history and political context for affirmative action in higher education in this country (the USA), so we can better grasp what this Supreme Court ruling banning the use of race as a consideration in college admissions really means.
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.”
“Big Companies Earned Over USD 1 Trillion of Profit in 2022, Says Joint Oxfam and Action Aid Study”. And: “World’s Richest Added $852 Billion to Their Fortunes in First Half of 2023”.
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