These are surreal times in the US. Even as the political system is gearing up for next year’s Presidential elections, the legal drama being played out in various courtrooms is shaping the political dynamic more potently than political debates. In fact, politics has been subsumed by the legal issues surrounding key political actors, most importantly, former US President Donald Trump.
Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth, declared Archimedes. Of course, he needed a long enough lever and a fulcrum, too. Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not ask for anything, puts no conditions, to work his miracles. Speaking of himself in the third person, as is the wont of Kings and little children, Modi declared that Modi would deliver the Independence Day speech next year, too, as well as the report card of progress every year for the next five years.
Does an attempt to impose Hindi on non-Hindi speaking populations excite feelings that weaken the unity and integrity of the country or ill-will towards the government established by law in the country?
UN Secretary General Guterres in his opening remarks at the start of the UN General Session in September 2022, cautioned the world about global dysfunction and how nations are not tackling the big adversaries caused due to consumerism facing it.
A recent Reuters report confirms that India has managed to cut its greenhouse emissions rate faster-than-expected — 33% in the past 14 years.
A Four Week Online Certificate Training Course on “Ending Violence Against Women: Awareness of Laws and Policies in India”, organized by the Gender Impact Studies Center (GISC), at the IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi. The session was on “Legal Safeguards and Constitutional Rights against VAW” by Adv Dr Shalu Nigam Advocate, Author, and Researcher, Gender and Human Rights & Visiting Senior Fellow IMPRI. Inaugurating the session Bhavni, a researcher at IMPRI, welcomed the speakers and participants to the program with an introduction to the eminent panelists.