-The Telegraph Members suggest the flare-up in an area not known for communal unrest should be seen in conjunction with a series of earlier events New Delhi: A fact-finding delegation of three Left parties has concluded that Saturday’s clashes at Jahangirpuri in northwest Delhi were the fallout of an agenda by some alleged Sangh parivar affiliates to use religious festivals to foment communal strife. The delegation from the CPM, CPIML and the Forward...
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The alarming rise of food shares -Nidhi Kaicker, Aashi Gupta, and Raghav Gaiha
-The Hindu Spells of impoverishment during the pandemic were not infrequent, and lower castes and minorities bore the brunt of it Few observations survive the test of time. Fewer gain significance over time. Engel’s Law is a case in point. A version is that the poorer a family, “the greater the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food. The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things...
More »You cannot stop people from eating non-vegetarian food, Gujarat HC tells Ahmedabad civic body
-Scroll.in The court was hearing a petition against the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, which had seized several vendors’ carts selling meat and egg dishes last month. The Gujarat High Court on Thursday told the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation that it could not stop the residents of the state from eating non-vegetarian food, Bar and Bench reported. Justice Biren Vaishnav made the statement while hearing a plea by vendors whose carts were seized from the main...
More »Official data on determinants of fertility has lessons for the misguided electorate
The virility of Muslim men vis-à-vis men from other religious communities have often been used as a political tool and to create a divisive agenda just before elections for getting votes from the majority of the Indian electorate who are Hindus. Instead of focusing on positive agendas like human development, employment generation, and poverty reduction, political campaigns just before the elections oftentimes reduce to mere communal propaganda (when a lot...
More »Why Millets in mid-day meal can be a political hot topic -Romita Datta
-IndiaToday.com In several states like Bengal, Assam and Odisha, rice is the staple diet On October 28, the Centre proposed millets be introduced in mid-day meals to tackle the growing problem of malnutrition among school students. Though in the past, some of the non-BJP ruled states, like Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, tried to be innovative with the menu, introducing eggs once or twice a week as protein substitutes to...
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