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1. Many of the people opposing the Farm Laws are not engaging with the economic argument squarely.This has the problem of it the issue being framed as "development vs rights"
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I believe we don't pay as much attention to this issue as we should.India was much poorer before independence, but you read people like Tagore, Sarojni Naidu, Azad, Gandhi or
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1. Towards the last year there were two essays on those losing hope in India's journey, both worth reading in full.This one by @andymukherjee70: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-opinion-india-and-modi-are-losing-china-battle/And
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Every year @third_pole does a "best of" list.It is tough, because we do everything by consensus, and there are so many good stories that we fight like cats in a
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1. Since @MVijay88 asked, here is a breakdown of the Callimachi story with ISIS and India, and why it should have raised a number of red flags.This is the story:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/world/asia/isis-messaging-app-terror-plot.ht
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As the @third_pole seminar on sandmining begins, @zofeen28 struggles to introduce @dipak_gyawali because there is so much to tell! "Entire villages are under the danger of landslides""Aquatic life is in
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India has so much democracy that it's supreme court doesn't hear habeas corpus cases for a year, that a bail plea is not heard because the CJI is offended at
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Setting aside the Hindu-Muslim thing, the core issue behind families wanting to control marriages in India is about caste, about closed access to opportunities, and an unfair socio-economic base.In a
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Not that my opinion matters, but the elections in Bihar for the opposition were anything but a disaster.The very possibility of creating a united front, and holding it, is the
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The problem with much of the media today - globally - is not the amount of negative news (that's the nature of news); it's the amount of negative news that
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1. I have had an evolving view of Kejriwal.My initial response to him was scepticism. This was beacuse of the Jan Lokpal Bill: http://nagarikmancha.org/images/1244-Documents-Jan%20Lokpal%20Bill.pdfThis envisaged the creation of an authority
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The anti-CAA/NRC protests were for Constitutional rights.They were not the creation of any political party, and were often at loggerheads with many of them.They focussed on the rediscovery of the
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