-The Hindu There are many parallels but also important differences between the current protests and the JP movement of the 70s, says this eminent historian A historian of modern India, Gyan Prakash is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University and author of the 2018 book Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy’s Turning Point. He compares the current situation in the country to the turmoil of the 70s. Excerpts: * How would...
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How the Constituent Assembly debated (and rejected) citizenship by religion -Aditya Chatterjee
-TheWire.in Raging arguments over who was indeed Indian were put to rest with a vote that spoke in favour of an Article 5 without religious markers. P.S. Deshmukh had been famously disappointed with the job the drafting committee had done with the citizenship provision. The year was 1949. He had thought that Dr. Ambedkar’s definition of citizenship would make “Indian citizenship the cheapest on earth.” His grouse had been with citizenship by birth....
More »How Bangladesh is outperforming India, writes Karan Thapar
-Hindustan Times Be it growth, enhanced investment, life expectancy, literacy, and health, Bangladesh is doing well Frankly, I blame Henry Kissinger. Way back in the 1970s, he called Bangladesh “an international basket case”. At the time, no doubt, it was. Television images of the frequent devastating floods it suffered confirmed this characterisation. So the description stuck. Today, Bangladesh is a different country. The world may be slow in changing its opinion —...
More »Retail inflation: Why your grocery bill could remain high -Surabhi
-The Hindu Business Line Onion prices may be cooling, but food inflation likely to remain high; core inflation a worry Consumers staring at rising prices are unlikely to have much reprieve. Analysts believe that retail inflation may be peaking now but caution that prices will remain high in coming months. So while onion prices have come down, your monthly grocery bill could still be on the higher side for the first half of...
More »Nutrition and the Budget's fine print -Jayashree B and R Gopinath
-The Hindu While there are well-equipped schemes to address malnutrition, funding and policy gaps are problem areas A few months ago, the Global Hunger Index, reported that India suffers from “serious” hunger, ranked 102 out of 117 countries, and that just a tenth of children between six to 23 months are fed a minimum acceptable diet. The urgency around nutrition was reflected in the Union Finance Minister’s Budget speech, as she referred...
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