The world watched aghast as police armed with tasers, tear-gas masks—and in one case backed up by snipers—arrested hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters at universities across the United States.
The Asian Development Outlook 2024 report suggests that policymakers in the region should monitor a number of risks. These include escalating conflicts and geopolitical tensions.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
Politics and governance are both in Ashwamedha mode. Unrelenting, unceasing. Power the ultimate aphrodisiac. The pandemic is an especially grim challenge, true, but there are so many other domains where this model is hurting. The poor most of all. There are in fact many fine people in the bureaucracy who can deliver far superior outcomes.
I am praying for CM Vijayan … 2. Science is the answer to our prayers. Those comforting words of Speaker Nancy Pelosi have stayed with me over the last year. The vaccines, medical care for those who have been infected, everything valuable has come from science and technology. Only placebos from the god men. 3. India shedding its scientific temper, religion becoming an intrusive presence in the public sphere as well, not taking us to the First World. Give me the spiritual Sikhs, any day, setting up langars, offering sanctuary and respite to those in distress.
Politics and governance are both in Ashwamedha mode. Unrelenting, unceasing. Power the ultimate aphrodisiac. The pandemic is an especially grim challenge, true, but there are so many other domains where this model is hurting. The poor most of all. There are in fact many fine people in the bureaucracy who can deliver far superior outcomes.
I am praying for CM Vijayan … 2. Science is the answer to our prayers. Those comforting words of Speaker Nancy Pelosi have stayed with me over the last year. The vaccines, medical care for those who have been infected, everything valuable has come from science and technology. Only placebos from the god men. 3. India shedding its scientific temper, religion becoming an intrusive presence in the public sphere as well, not taking us to the First World. Give me the spiritual Sikhs, any day, setting up langars, offering sanctuary and respite to those in distress.