What will prevent a jingoistic leader to goad the jobless youth trained by Armed forces in their twenties and thirties not mature enough to discern national interest from the interest of ruling dispensation to take up arms for a particular cause?
Bulldozing the Constitution!
What kind of people can watch this naked dance of sham democracy which is more of an oppressive dictatorship rather than anything else?
Is it enough to fly the Tricolour to prove one’s patriotism?
The entire government machinery, keeping aside their important work, are now enforcing the government order of flying a tricolor at every house. This country is slowly becoming a country which believes in ostentation rather than real work.
Agniveers on contract: What if Chinese PLA offers Indian youth better service options?
While all this is discussed by defense experts, one must explore another side of this scheme, that it makes thousands of trained ‘Agniveers’ — 75% recruits who lose their jobs after four years’ contract is over — simply unemployed. https://www.counterview.net/2022/06/agniveers-on-contract-what-if-chinese.html
“A feudal mindset dominates the political culture in South Asia”: Sandeep Pandey
Hostility between India and Pakistan can be ended by creating a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in South Asia. All outstanding issues, including Kashmir, should be resolved through dialogue. Most importantly, the border between India and Pakistan should be opened for all citizens the way this has been done to visit the Kartarpur Sahib gurudwara. https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/963083-a-feudal-mindset-dominates-the-political-culture-in-south-asia
Lockdown Effect: Manual Scavengers Turn to Selling Human Bones Simply to Survive
Even now, nearly a year after the worst effects of the pandemic were seen, hundreds of sanitation workers and manual scavengers are permanently employed in digging up human remains for trade.Lockdown Effect: Manual Scavengers Turn to Selling Human Bones Simply to Survive: Pragya Akhilesh, Anil Balmiki, Sujith Balmiki and Dinesh Hela, 24 March 2022https://thewire.in/rights/lockdown-effect-manual-scavengers-turn-to-selling-human-bones-simply-to-survive… Within […]
Does NAGALAND deserve a separate Constitution and Flag?
by Dr. Sandeep Pandey Dimapur Conclave for ‘Save the Peace,’ organized by Naga People’s Movement for Human Rights on 25-26 March 2022, adopted the following resolution: Indo-Naga political talks must be supported and protected till it achieves the desired goal of honourable and lasting peace for both parties in talks. The Framework Agreement signed on […]
FINALLY BJP FORCED TO FOCUS ON PEOPLE’S ISSUES
In the middle of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections the Bhartiya Janta Party published a full front page advertisement a day before and on the day of polling for fourth and fifth phase. This advertisement is basically electoral promises. According to Section 126 of the Representation of Peoples Act all campaigning must stop 48 hours […]
Covering Ukraine: A mean streak of racist exceptionalism
What Achebe wrote, regarding Africa is true of much of the non-white world which “is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray – a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical and moral deformities so that he may go forward, erect and immaculate”. Ironically, European moral deformities have been on open display […]
ASSAULT ON THE IDEA OF EDUCATION
The Sangh Parivar claims to be a cultural organization. Core supporters of its ideology are upper caste and/or the educated elite. Quite naturally it gives importance to education. It is opposed to caste based reservation in the name of honouring merit. The irony is among the top leadership of Sangh Parivar or it affiliate […]
