Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose portrait controversy is a perfect example of confirmation bias. Social media stars switched off the need to fact-check. While it underlines the hazard of life on Twitter, it serves the liberal intelligentsia a lesson. In a polarised climate, outrage is cheap, easy but not always reliable.
Bombay HC’s Nagpur bench ruling in POCSO case legally unsound, must be appealed & corrected
The Bombay High Court’s Nagpur bench ruling on a recent POCSO case is a restrictive and conservative reading of the law. It is a dangerous slide in India’s sexual assault jurisprudence in the past decade. Legally unsound, it must be appealed and corrected, lest trial courts begin to take cue.
Sikkim face-off shows LAC still edgy, diplomacy must shift gears to prevent conflagration
Lack of obvious progress in Ladakh talks and the face-off between troops in Sikkim show India and China are no close to reducing border tensions. On the contrary, summer can only make things worse as both sides have strengthened positions. Diplomacy needs to shift gears to prevent a fresh conflagration.
If there is an imperfection in the wording of the law, which bound the Court’s hands, it should be amended appropriately. The nature of the act violated the bodily integrity of a minor girl.
To quote from Shri Jayadeva Ranade’s recent column in The Tribune. India – China tensions unlikely to ease. The official Chinese thinking is that the conflict in Ladakh was “ inevitable “ and a result of the “ high – risk high – yield policy “ followed by the Modi government. The main reason for rivalry has been identified as India’s long term pursuit of absolute security and dominance in the regional order and the Modi government’s ambition to overtake China by taking advantage of a favourable external environment. 2. Growing at 8.1% this year, China’s GDP, 5.7x of ours, will add 46% of India’s GDP in a single year. Thoughtful personages like Shri Shiv Shankar Menon have spoken of the need for India and China to forge a new modus vivendi, one that rests on contemporary reality. The understanding forged in 1988 needs updating. 3. 2010 – 2020 has been a wasted decade for the India story. It has ended with the pandemic, which will do lasting damage to the economy. India’s most important national imperative is the removal of mass poverty, becoming a middle income nation. One is not certain the present approach to China will advance that objective.
Your response is a perfect example of confirmation bias. Happy Republic Day.
Bhai Saheb, welcome back. Aap ko Gantantra Divas ki mangal shubh kaamnayen.
Meri tubelight abhi jali. You have applied “ confirmation bias “ from the title to me. Honoured to be called a liberal. Intelligentsia is an undeserved bonus.