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In the advancement of ultra-right politics propaganda plays a crucial role. The history of fascism has paraded innumerable instances of it. The Indian face of fascism represented by RSS controlled BJP has excelled the art in a comparatively short span of time. They believe that through propaganda they could turn black into white and false into truth. Doordarshan, our own national channel, is under constant pressure to follow the suit.

Former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa insists that democracy will prevail in the Latin American country despite the government waging “lawfare” in a bid to block his candidacy in the 2021 election.

The Indian judiciary is facing a crisis. The judiciary’s response to rape cases, specifically, rape survivors seems to fluctuate between insensitive and thoughtless to sexist and misogynistic.

What has been happening in West Bengal and Rajasthan makes it crystal clear that the institution of Governor has lost its sanctity as the governors instead of relying on their own conscience and applying their mind were acting according to the briefs handed over to them by their political bosses.

The Modi Government’s new National Education Policy (NEP) for the children and youth of India is dressed in RSS khaki with shades of the intent of a multitude of saffron organizations hued into it. Don’t be surprised if India becomes ‘Bharat’ in more ways than one in a couple of decades from now, especially if the BJP continues to hold its own at the Centre under this and other BJP Prime Ministers.

‘Education is that which liberates’, says the core Indian philosophy of education in Sanskrit, and the ‘basic purpose of education is to make the mind creative and analytical’ says the Greek philosopher Plato. The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, in place of focusing on such core philosophies, focused at infinity creating ‘back focus error’ which needs to be corrected or readjusted for the ‘right focus’ if at all we do not want to make humans, mere slaves and tools, non-creative or even destructive, non-analytic or synthetic. Policies must not be based on mere ideas, they must be empirical.

Billionaire Tesla owner Elon Musk has come under fire after welcoming last year’s overthrow of Bolivian president Evo Morales in what was seen as a bid to obtain the country’s lithium reserves.

Will the Indian consumer become a king under the new Consumer Protection Act, 2019? The Act which recently came into effect is being heralded as progressive legislation that fills a gaping need. However, in resolving the lacunae in the erstwhile 1986 legislation, what remains to be seen it how it will deal with the challenges of implementation.

LUCKNOW: Opposition leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Akhilesh Yadav have separately launched attacks against Yogi Adityanath led BJP government for deterioration in law and order situation in the Uttar Pradesh. Terming the law and order in the state as jungle raj, both the Congress general secretary and the Samajwadi Party national president blamed the Yogi administration for increasing criminal activities in Uttar Pradesh during the present pandemic.

It can happen only in Bihar. At least 15 districts in Bihar, including Patna the prestigious capital of the state, are the worst corona affected hotspots. Only on July 17, The Lancet had listed eight Bihar districts among the 20 most vulnerable ones across the country for the novel coronavirus. The spike in daily cases of coronavirus in Bihar over the past 10 days has reinforced that the perception of people and the analysis of The Lancet report are not misplaced.