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Overnight a couple of planks for the 2024 General Elections has been laid – with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar releasing the Bihar Caste Census and Prime Minister Narendra Modi raking up the Kanhaiyalal ‘sar tan se juda’ in pollbound Rajasthan, both the politicians ready to do whatever is needed to get the upper hand by resorting to whatever it takes. So, in caste-ridden India making use of caste divisions is the same as playing the communal card, which is what the Prime Minister has fallen back on in the face of INDIA’s masterstroke, the ‘Caste Census’.

Zoleka Mandela, the granddaughter of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first democratically elected President, passed away at the age of 43 due to cancer. Zoleka battled metastatic cancer affecting her hip, liver, lung, pelvis, brain, and spinal cord. Surrounded by loved ones, she departed on the evening of September 25.The funeral service was held at Bryanston Methodist Church on Friday, September 29.

Greece’s communists began the mid-twentieth century on the battlefield, moved from there to the prisons and then, if they were lucky, exile. The less fortunate found themselves in front of firing squads.

BHOPAL: While Prime Minister Narendra Modi was promoting to make Madhya Pradesh the third most developed state of the country, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan surprised everybody by saying “You will miss me when I am gone”. This statement is being interpreted as an announcement that he will not continue in the office after election and possibly before polls.

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances is a quote which aptly encapsulates the histrionic talent of Michael John Gambon who passed away last week.. He lived up to this quote as the octogenarian will be best remembered for his performance in the role of Albus Dumbledore in a series of Harry Potter movies based on an seemingly unending fairy tale

Once again, the Government has approved the sale of 28th tranche of electoral bonds with effect from October4 lasting ten days and as usual, it is slotted few weeks before the assembly elections to the five states. As usual, the BJP will be getting another big bounty in their election campaign kitty since about 80 to 90 per cent of the funds go to the ruling party. The centre is shamefully allowing the present electoral bond rules to be used in favour of the BJP at the cost of the other opposition parties but still the Supreme Court is sitting on the petition which has been pending for long.

James Joyce was a member of Ireland’s revolutionary generation. The author of Ulysses (1922) was born in 1882, the same year as Éamon de Valera, and three years after Patrick Pearse in 1879. The latter two figures proved to be instrumental in realizing a political revolution in Ireland between the years 1916 and 1923 that would see it gain effective national autonomy.

Can the split between the AIADMK and BJP be permanent? If so, this could hurt the BJP's chances of winning in Tamil Nadu since the AIADMK had supported them since J. Jayalalithaa's passing away in 2016. The decision to end its partnership with the NDA on a national and state level may put the BJP at a disadvantage.

The release of Bihar Caste Census Report has two immediate consequences: First, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has further raised his pitch for conduction of caste census at national level; and secondly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the opposition of “trying to divide the country in the name of caste”. Both were trying to attack each other where it hurts.

Rahul Gandhi calling for caste census has multiple political dimensions and also implications. Of course, its immediate move aims at estrangement of the OBC, EBC and other backward castes voters from the influence of the politics of Hindutva of RSS and Narendra Modi, but it has a far-reaching mission to transform the ideological and philosophical outreach and orientation of the Congress.