So much for the sanctity of science awards: telegraphindia.com/amp/india/gate…

Another incident of a statue collapse, this time in Sindhudurg involved crores and crores of rupees wasted for a photo op in a country home to over 190 million hungry people and 6.7 million children without food - and where people sleep on the roadsides are run over and killed.

Women in Afghanistan are singing to protest the Taliban’s new “morality decree”. This decree is yet another brazen attack on human rights and must be immediately revoked.

"Stand Up, Be A Man": Shobhaa De Asks Malayalam Producer Mohanlal To Act On Kerala Film Industry #MeToo. "Money is controlled by the men, they decide who is in, who is out, ... which woman is willing to go to bed with a director, producer, a cameraperson. If not, ... she is out".

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The issue of quarrying as a contributing factor for a landslide: a much-debated topic in Kerala in the backdrop of the Wayanad tragedy. This article discusses how unregulated quarrying becomes an issue. downtoearth.org.in/natural-disast…

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India Can Help Resolve Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Italian PM Meloni. What about the Manipur conflict?

I like the title of an opinion piece in the Indian Express:

Good news for the country: GST rates on namkeens and savoury food items have been prospectively reduced from 18% to 12%. India is on the move!

At CJI's home: This picture is publicised through newspapers. What does this photograph signify? How does the public perceive this and what message does it send out? All I can say here now is this: Discretion is the better part of valour. This photo-op should have been avoided.

When I see how the Indian establishments give out awards, positions, recognitions etc. to (their) people, I am reminded of what Sherlock Holmes told Dr Watson: "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; It requires talent to recognize genius".

Writers and intellectuals should express themselves fearlessly, the BJP leader Nitin Gadgari said at a Friday book release function at MIT World Peace University. What about the scholars and activists who are still behind the bars?

The first thing is to ask your friends to stop dividing people based on religion. Love and peace will follow. In such a world, a self-styled mediator (as highlighted in your article in the Indian Express) becomes unemployable.

This is about a virtual meeting on the environmental issues in Kerala - the other speaker: Adv. Vinod Payyada

UP Class 2 Boy "Sacrificed" For School's "Success". What the heck is happening in the State of UP?

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Message to Israel: "If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat" - Jean-Paul Sartre

All awards are political including the Nobel Prizes