Home Minister Rajnath Singh said government’s new interlocutor on Kashmir would initiate a dialogue “to understand the legitimate aspirations of people”.
Is the world drifting toward another world war? China’s rise, hyper-nationalism, and border conflicts highlight similarities with the conditions that led to the previous world wars.
Bibek Debroy, chairman of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, also suggested that analysing inequality at the state level might provide a clearer picture of inequality, as a national estimate could be misleading.
Pictures had emerged of Chinese soldiers carrying rifles and iron rods with machete-like heads in the vicinity of India’s forward locations on the southern bank of Pangong Tso in 2020.
Occasional lovers’ tiffs have marked history of RSS-BJP relations. To think that Nagpur will bring about any change in leadership is a misreading of both its intent and its power.
In a way, it is unfair to expect anything substantive to result from this initiative. The issues / demands / aspirations that are fuelling unrest, often disrupting normal life, leading also to a human toll, are well known in Delhi, where alone decisions can be taken. There is an almost daily MRI scan of the Valley which reaches the desks of the people who matter, starting with the DIB himself. The stage of information gathering is long past. What now needs to be done is for the Centre, in consultation with the state government, to keep releasing decisions that mitigate the underlying problem, reduce alienation, slowly start restoring trust. Intuition suggests that for success to ensue, Pakistan needs to be associated in whatever format or capacity the government considers appropriate. People speak very highly of the SR’s competence and intellectual integrity. If his mission does not, unfortunately, succeed, he is the last person who should bear any responsibility.
In a way, it is unfair to expect anything substantive to result from this initiative. The issues / demands / aspirations that are fuelling unrest, often disrupting normal life, leading also to a human toll, are well known in Delhi, where alone decisions can be taken. There is an almost daily MRI scan of the Valley which reaches the desks of the people who matter, starting with the DIB himself. The stage of information gathering is long past. What now needs to be done is for the Centre, in consultation with the state government, to keep releasing decisions that mitigate the underlying problem, reduce alienation, slowly start restoring trust. Intuition suggests that for success to ensue, Pakistan needs to be associated in whatever format or capacity the government considers appropriate. People speak very highly of the SR’s competence and intellectual integrity. If his mission does not, unfortunately, succeed, he is the last person who should bear any responsibility.