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YourTurn/SubscriberWrites: Education debate focused on Class 12 & 10, but closing primary schools has been a disaster

Primary school children need personal interactions between teachers and students for their social and emotional development, argues Dr Priam Pillai.

SubscriberWrites: Reservation policy in India needs be more inclusive and aim for greater diversity

The current system of reservation doesn’t give the benefits of reservation to the individuals who face double or triple discrimination, writes Ashish Agrawal.

SubscriberWrites: From planes and pensions, democracy & politics or Covid deaths — everything is being hijacked

Irate subscribers suggest rewiring democracy, more women in politics, how to revive Congress, understand Modi’s popularity – and much more.

SubscriberWrites: Why Kamal Haasan lost in the Tamil Nadu polls but Udaynithi has a winning combination

It’s all about the views of 2K generation which is looking for natural talent or experience in its politicians, says Balaji Alagurajan.

SubscriberWrites: The planet isn’t going anywhere, we are if we ignore the perils of climate change

Our environmental failure will cost us in disease, economic loss, food and water shortages — and human lives, worries Samar Rege.

SubscriberWrites: The best thing for the opposition is for Rahul Gandhi to leave Congress & start his own party

This would blunt BJP’s attacks on the party and allow a charismatic leader who is not a dynast to take over, says Shrivathsan Sridharan.

SubscriberWrites: No need to vaccinate entire population to control pandemic – target those who go out most

Vaccine is the first shield of defense. A defending army never aims to kill each and every member of the enemy but to slow down the advance, says Ashish Patki.

SubscriberWrites: In praise of making money & why it’s a good idea to let a thousand billionaires bloom

Shaunak Desai defends the super rich from the charge that their creation of wealth also creates greater inequality in society.

SubscriberWrites: ‘If only I had seen/Grey as Grey…..I might have been saved/This Black day!’

Those are lines from a poem written by Sangeeta Kampani, who is fighting a bout of the rogue virus and trying to make sense of it.

SubscriberWrites: Why Israel won the Gaza conflict against Hamas & the media refuses to acknowledge it

Worldwide, the liberal and conservative political establishment and media interpret territorial conflicts as religious ones—they’re wrong, writes Keval Gokani.

On Camera

No Mamata Banerjee, women’s safety isn’t a curfew issue

For Indian women, the smallest unit of control becomes the family; the largest, the State. Both speak the same language.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.