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By James M Dorsey Three months ago, I Wayan Koster, the governor of Hindu-majority Bali, made his mark on the international stage by banning an Israeli squad from participating in this year’s FIFA Under-20 World Cup. Operating at the intersection of domestic Indonesian politics, his country’s foreign relations and...
Smriti Ravindra’s First Novel Is A Gripping Account Of Churning In A Nepali Society
By Harihar Swarup The woman who climbed trees opens with a wedding. Meena 14, stands on a terrace in Dharbhanga eating roasted peanuts when she is told about 21-year-old Manmohan, her future husband. He is first in his family from Nepal to study in India. Her mother, Keveri, claims...
Opposition Parties Optimistic About Success Of Patna Conclave On June 23
By Nitya Chakraborty On June 19 evening West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee conveyed something politically significant in her tweet congratulating the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on his 54th birthday. Her tweet said ‘Best wishes on your birthday, Rahulji. Wishing you good health. May you...
Finally Prime Minister’s US Visit Seems To Be A Mega Show Of Emergent India
By Sushil Kutty One view is that one Indian is having all the fun! Like “excitement and euphoria have gripped many Indian Americans ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to the US”. Such a view should not be allowed to gather moss. It is humiliating to the country,...
Can Anxious RSS Rein In Its Own Creation Prime Minister Narendra Modi?
By Arun Srivastava At the end of Mary Shelley’s iconic novel, the Frankenstein’s monster had finished in the same place where it started. Its creator, the scientist Victor Frankenstein, died wishing that he could destroy the alien he created. What was most unfortunate was that he did not learn...
US SEC’s Lawsuits Against Binance And Coinbase Hit Cryptocurrency Market
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav After shaking the foundation of traditional finance and making central banks give a war cry, the cryptocurrency world faces one of its most critical moments as it moves forward nonchalantly. With over a trillion dollars in market cap and the bitcoin keeping in the range...
US Secretary Of State Antony Blinken’s Talks In Beijing Have Positive Signals
By Girish Linganna At a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing on Monday, June 19, 2023, Chinese President Xi Jinping has stated that the world required a stable US-China relationship and that the two countries should handle ties responsibly, according to state broadcaster China Central...
Financial Squeeze Has Left More Workers With Less Money At End Of Each Month
By K Raveendran Yet another study has brought out the miserable conditions being suffered by workers and employees are in the wake of the current global financial squeeze. Employees are increasingly feeling cash-strapped as a cooling economy and inflationary challenges continue to impact workforce wallets, says the PwC 2023...
British PM Rishi Sunak Mocks Transgender Ideology
By Tony Ademiluyi Lifesite News did a recent report on a leaked video that showed the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak mocking the idea that gender-confused men are biological women. Pro-LGBTQ Website, Pink News blasted the Indian-originated Prime Minister as dehumanizing the transgender community for his subtle criticism of...
BJP Leadership Wants The Estranged Allies To Be Back In NDA Before 2024 Polls
By Kalyani Shankar Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP are reassessing their 2024 Lok Sabha poll strategy to perform a hat trick. As the Opposition parties try to build a united platform against the BJP, it has become necessary for BJP to begin negotiations with its erstwhile allies...
India’s Grass-Root Democracy Is Under Threat From State Political Leadership
By Nantoo Banerjee It may be to the credit of the Indian National Congress and of Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao, who served as the country’s ninth prime minister from 1991 to 1996, for taking the initiative to pass the Constitution Amendment (73rd and 74th) Acts. The 73rd Amendment empowered...
Myopic Modi Eyes US Trip For ‘Peace In Ukraine’ As Manipur Burns
By Arun Srivastava History repeats. And this time it has repeated itself in Manipur. India’s northeastern state is ablaze, and only four days back the house of Union minister R K Ranjan Singh was burnt to ashes in full view of the security forces and state police. More than...
Just Released Film ‘Adipurush’ Is Undoubtedly A Saffron Friendly Project Gone Wrong
By Sushil Kutty The politics in the Ramayana is over after a few turns of the pages. Machinations of the ‘second wife’ which conspired to send Lord Rama into exile with wife Sita and brother Lakshmana in tow; thereby setting the stage for the most celebrated kidnap-cum-rescue dramas of...
Entire Top BJP Leadership Including PM And Amit Shah Are On Trial In Manipur
By Ashis Biswas During the past few weeks, Narendra Modi Government’s decisions and peace-promoting initiatives relating to the Manipur ethnic riots have only rekindled old controversies, instead of helping to defuse the volatile situation. Worse, most communities whether tribal or non tribal, now seem sceptical of the centre’s intentions...
Centre Must Take Up Action Plan Rather Denying Heatwave Deaths
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Deaths linked to heatwave conditions or exacerbated by it causing about 100 deaths within a span of few days in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar must be taken as wake-up call for India, for it requires urgently putting in place the heat action plan for health...
Samajwadi Party Has To Be More Flexible In Forming A Front Against BJP In Uttar Pradesh
By Arun Srivastava In the past too Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav had experimented with several types of coalitions, in 2017 aligning with Congress and in 2019 luring the BSP of Mayawati, but none of the coalitions to defeat the BJP worked. Once again he has floated the idea...
Defying Economic Sanctions, Russian Economy Set To Grow In 2023
By Subrata Majumder Arguments, debates and surprises spun on Russia circumventing the fall out of US led western sanctions and hoping for a bounce back in the economy. About 37 countries have imposed sanctions on Russia since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Russian economy shrank by 2.1...
Public Grievances Redressal Mechanism Has Made Some Forward Movement
By K R Sudhaman In a country, where corruption is rampant, one question that is often asked: is the public grievances redress mechanism effective. India may claim to be the largest democracy in the world with widespread freedom to question the authority when they go wrong. In reality, does...
