Saturday 07 December 2024

News Analysed, Opinions Expressed

Thinking Freely

To Lohia With Love

 

On Nov 27 and 28, 2021, an international conference is being organized at Ravindra Bhavan, Margao. Many Gandhians from India and abroad are expected to attend this conference under the convenorship of Shri Abhishek Ranjan Singh of the Dr Rammanohar Lohia Research Foundation. Lohia was a Gandhian.READ

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Goa and The Crimson Tide of Climate Change

 

Europe is already building fortifications to protect its key cities against the sea level rise due to climate change and global warming. They have an entire intergovernmental Ice2Sea Project dedicated to this. What about Goa ? Are we prepared for the rise in sea level? READ

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Sanghis sans Saffron

 

BRAHMANIZATION of entire Indian society, brought in by adult franchise and the advances in science and technology is sought to be fought by the militarized majoritarian cults united under the doctrine of Hindutva. READ

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A Matter of Conscience

 

The key to understanding fascism lies in the individuality and the individual consciousness....An act which promotes humanism and conscience within the State and its people is unlikely to be fascist. READ

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Is Indian Corporatism the Fascism?

 

I present here some of the classic features of a fascist society and contend that they very much apply to today's India. Are we willing to accept this ?READ

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The Language of Non Thought

 

There are a lot of thought terminating clichés inserted, apparently meaningfully, in the political discourse nowadays. Take for example “urban naxal” or “presstitute” or “lutyens lobby” or “khan market gang”, “tukde tukde gang”…. Did you ever realize that there is a system or a method to this madness? READ

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Guha, Jaishankar, Lifton, Trump and The Buddha

 

A struggle for ownership of reality comes when one comes face to face with ideological totalism. Most of the times, the ideological totalists manufacture a self generated or solipsistic reality. Ideological or political totalism is all about mental predation.READ

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The Story of a Missed Call

 

AAP has a more humanist agenda – education, healthcare -- than pure polarization agenda of its main adversary. This has been well received by the voters. But did AAP succeed in shifting the ideological spectrum of Delhi’s politics to the centre? Did AAP succeed in bringing in a more Constitutional narrative and therefore a more emotionally mature narrative into the electoral discourse? READ

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Why Consider The Profession of Prostitution Pejorative ?

 

It is important that our leaders are aware of the needs of our society and address these needs through the kaleidoscope of compassion and humanism rather than through the prism of prejudice.READ

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Constitutional idealism and today’s India

 

Can one become Constitutional by protesting the CAA and the NRC on streets? Can one become constitutional by reading the “holy book” of the Constitution of India in schools? OR do we need to remove this parallel constitution that exists in our minds and makes our socialism and secularism less than skin deep?READ

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You are right Zor radta pejek, and that's the reason all khaki chaddi hate mongers now need Nehru, Patel and other icons of Indian National Congress.

All they have are rabid and half baked intellectuals like Golwalkar, Deen Dayal Upadhay and now Deenbandhu Batra.

On one hand they justify killing of Gandhi and on the other Gandhi is venerable to them .

These are fork tongued guy who were with Congress and now with BJP to pick up the crumbs of power thrown at them,

 
rajan kamat |

Congress Party founded by Nehru's daughter in 1969 dumped an forgot Panditji. The new culture of the new party with same name was not meant to carry forward Nehru's mission. Now some people who are displaced from power are crying for Nehru who never belonged to them. In Konkani we call it "Zor radta pejek".

 
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Dr Mukul R Pai Raiturkar is a consultant pediatrician & neonatologist practicing in Margao. He is the co-convener of Ami Goenkar, an organisation of secular young Goans working towards a novel approach to religious-political issues of Goa. Son of veteran Goan freedom fighter Mr Ravindranath Pai Raiturkar, he exudes unshakable faith in a liberal, secular and free spirited democracy of India.

 

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