25 January 2024
Hindu-majority Nepal’s secular Constitution respects all religions equally - as does India’s. On the day of the theatrical Ram consecration in Ayodhya, many Nepalis, like Indians, watched or participated in the religious ceremony. (...)
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The consecration of Ram in Ayodhya: View from Kathmandu | Namrata Sharma
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Poem: ‘The nation is not a map drawn on a piece of paper’ (1948) | Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena
27 January’Desh Kagaz Par Bana Naksha Nahin Hota’ (1948) by Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena
(Translation from Hindi by Ayesha Kidwai)
If one room in your house is ablaze Can you just go sleep in another one? If in one room of your house, corpses rot and decay, (...) -
Public Notice on ‘One Nation, One Election’ –: Very Serious Electoral Reforms but Very Little Response Time | K Gireesan
27 JanuaryOn 2 Sep 2023, the Government of India constituted a High-Level Committee (HLC) ‘to examine the issue of simultaneous elections and make recommendations for holding simultaneous elections in the country’ . The HLC comprised of the Former (...) -
‘One Nation, One Election’ is a subversive idea based on delusions of monarchical grandeur | Suhit K Sen
27 January17 January 2024
Simultaneous elections can’t possibly work without committing extreme violence to the Constitution.
The committee tasked with examining the proposal for ‘One Nation, One Election’ — in lockstep with the theme of one nation, one (...) -
Construction of colonial society it’s Madness in the Story of Dakmunish | Radhakanta Barik
27 January, by Radhakanta BarikTradition has an immense strength of exhibiting humanism but modernity is failing specially colonial modernity. The best example one finds with the dalit communities who exhibit their brotherhood among themselves to their old people. Hindu (...) -
Informal Sector Workers Suffer on Both Sides of the Pollution Debate | Bharat Dogra
27 January, by Bharat DograMany informal sector workers are more exposed to pollution because they work outdoors or else work indoors in polluting conditions. Hence the health risks they face when air pollution levels are high are much higher compared to the risks faced (...) -
Karpoori Thakur: A Centennial Appraisal | Manish Thakur and Nabanipa Bhattacharjee
27 JanuaryAbstract
This short essay brings out some of the key elements that made Karpoori Thakur one of the tallest socialist leaders in Bihar. It discusses some of the important contemporary implications of the politics that Thakur espoused and (...) -
Left Perspectives on BJD’s Temporary Compromise or Permanent Invitation to Hindutva in Odisha | Bhabani Shankar Nayak
27 JanuaryThe Government of Odisha, led by the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) under Chief Minister Mr. Naveen Patnaik, provides massive funding to revive all religious institutions and their practices in the state. These religious initiatives are part of his (...) -
Weaving Threads of Salvation with Pashmina, Par and Vrindavani Vastra | Swaswati Borkataki
27 JanuaryThis is the story of three kinds of weaves that articulate three distinct yet overlapping traditions of spirituality. They come from three diverse spatial backgrounds: the Pashmina shawl from Kashmir and its adjoining areas, the Vrindavani (...) -
Privacy and Publicity: Consumer culture and identity in United States | Sunita Samal
27 January, by Sunita SamalAbstract: The lady or gentleman is the person who only carries out work with the help of ‘destruction’. Human works can be summed up in two actions: destruction and construction. The more the work is nothing other than destruction, the more it is (...)
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