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What Feeds the Indian Right Wing?
What feeds the Indian right wing? Undoubtedly, centrally orchestrated spectacles and narratives of fierce nationalism have strong roles to play but there are other equally important undercurrents that merit attention. For instance, at the very local level the right wing scores a few points every time the opposition fails to live up to its own…
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Raising Legal Age of Marriage for Girls Resonates with Vidarbha Youths
A discussion with a group of students from Elgar Academy on the central government’s decision to raise the legal age of marriage for girls to 21 years provided valuable insights into the perspective of the youth from rural and small town areas. The overall support for the decision from girls as well as boys underlined the…
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Hating Mahatma, Deriding Nehru: Twin Ghosts that Haunt the Right Wing
The right wing has developed a two-pronged strategy to deal with the ghosts of Nehru and Gandhi. The political arm of the right wing, represented primarily by the BJP, attacks Nehru because they have to battle the legacy of Nehru the Prime Minister, the builder of institutions, the diplomat, and the staunch upholder of secular…
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साठ वर्षापासून सुरू आहे विरई गावात धान्याची बॅंक
स्व. तुकाराम वाढईची ती कल्पकता ठरली गावकर्यांना वरदान, मूल वरून जवळच असलेल्या विरई या छोट्याशा गावात, त्यावेळचे सरपंच तुकाराम वाढई यांनी आपल्या गावकर्यांची हाळोक महिण्यांतच नव्हे तर दुष्काळातही उपासमार होवू नये, आपलाच बांधव अन्नावाचून भुकबळी जावू नये यासाठी साठ वर्षाच्या आधी विचार केला, विचार कृतीत उतरवित उभी राहीली ती विरईची धान्य बॅंक! या धान्य बॅंकेतून…
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Sinking of the Secular Project
We live in the best of times and the worst of times, as Charles Dickens would say. For, we live in times of polarisation — where no relation is immune to a deep left-right divide; where people are labelled casually as if they are assembly-line products of a modern factory — in which there…
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आदिवासींवर अत्याचार: चंद्रपूर वन अधिकाऱ्यांवर गंभीर आरोप
पीडित मनोज मरापे, रा. फुलझरी पुढच्यास ठेच, मागचा शहाणा ही मराठीतील एक म्हण. चिचोंली प्रकरणात ठेच लागल्यानंतरही शहाणे होतील ते वनविभाग कसले? आपली दहशत गावकरी, आदिवासींवर कायम ठेवण्यांसाठी अंगात ‘गुरू’र आणून निष्पापाना ‘प्रसाद’ देण्यांत अलिकडे चंद्रपूर जिल्हयातील वनविभाग अग्रेसर झाले आहेत. चंद्रपूरातील बाबुपेठ वार्डातील सुरेंद्र देवाडकर यांना वनविभागाच्या अधिकार्यांनी केलेली बेदम मारहाण आणि त्यात झालेला…
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Goonda Tactics of Chandrapur Forest Department
Victim of Forest Department Torture Torture, Blackmail and False Cases The first time an incident occurs, it can be deemed an accident; the second time can be seen as a coincidence; the third time establishes a pattern and the fourth time shows premeditation! Three separate incidents of torture by the Chandrapur forest department in the…
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गडचिरोलीतील मुलींसाठी आलेले ते ‘तीस’ कोटी रूपये गेले कुठे?
प्रियंका गांधीच्या रद्द झालेल्या दौर्यांनी निर्माण केले अनेक प्रश्न! गडचिरोली जिल्हयातील विद्यार्थीनीना 10 हजार आणि ब्रम्हपुरी निर्वाचन क्षेत्रातील ५ हजार असे एकूण 15 हजार मुलींना इलेक्ट्रिक सायकल वाटप 14 डिसेंबरला अ.भा.राष्ट्रिय कॉंग्रेसच्या महासचिव प्रियंका गांधीच्या हस्ते वाटप होणार होते. प्रियंका गांधी यांचा दौरा काही कारणांने हुकला, आणि या मुलींना सामाजीक दायित्वाच्या भावनेने वाटप होणार्या इलेक्ट्रीक…
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‘Markers of False Sants’: Vidarbha Gazette remembers Vandaniya Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj
Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj In 2000 I was still new to Chandrapur district and learning new things every day. Since villagers would be free in the evenings, the meetings of Shramik Elgar would start late and end at dinner…
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Two Poems by Pramodkumar Anerao
These two poems written by Pramodkumar Anerao were translated from Marathi by Paromita Goswami. Both are included in his anthology Kahi Sangtach Yet Nahi (2021). Pramodkumar Anerao writes on contemporary themes of alienation and uncertainties of modern life. He is also an avid illustrator and has designed several book covers. He contributes regularly to newspapers and magazines.…
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