For any political party to thrive in conditions as hostile as the Indian political climate, the presence of a strong, astute leader capable enough to tackle dynamic political conditions is very critical. And it is the absence of a strong figure capable enough to tackle and counter the rise of the BJP that is hurting Congress’ aspirations to rise to power.
The literature at hand for the Constitution reads it as boundaries of the political community. These boundaries can be territorial (the geographical borders of a state, as well as its claims to any other territory or extraterritorial rights) and operating within the ambit of state.
Why should the government silence such a small opposition in Andhra Pradesh? Is it the insecurity of the ruling party about the fragility of its public finances? Or, is it the desire to rule the state without any opposition?
I would like to make it clear at the outset that my objective is to engage with the ideas in the book, rather than providing a book review. I adopted a style to amalgamate sentences taken from the author and apply them to my own experience.
In the early 20th century, as four medieval empires disintegrated, it was Russian social democracy that put the right to self-determination of nations on the global agenda, including in Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points.
As Gandhi stood for Poorna Swaraj where citizens will have the collective right to have a sovereign state to realize their individual rights to freedom and also the state will not be coercive in the hands of any one particular class rather it will be the instrument of the whole society.
As Gandhi stood for Poorna Swaraj where citizens will have the collective right to have a sovereign state to realize their individual rights to freedom and also the state will not be coercive in the hands of any one particular class rather it will be the instrument of the whole society.
Their place is supposed to be on a throne guarded by sentinels who are on the constant search for dissenters, “rebels”, and “outsiders”. Their ideas are to be upheld and words to be obeyed. There must not lie any source of identification with the divine.
The entire history of war journalism is one of the journalists attempting to gain access to events in order to serve the public interest. The ability of reporters to follow unfolding events has a history as long as war journalism itself.
Afghanistan has been a centre for warlordism since the 12th Century, sometimes for the tribal Pashtun community, or the Moghul raiders, and as recently as the 1990s for the Taliban.
We can never be free from ideology, as it is the ideology that is dependent on us and feeds on our belief systems. But we have to be free from ideological hegemony to start moving into the direction of freedom.
In 1947, India had a population of 345 million. It was split. The high and lower castes, as well as the dominant Hindu population and other religious Indians, were divided. A wide diversity of languages, fashions, cuisines, and occupations were spoken in this large territory. How could they be forced to live in harmony inside one nation?
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