#NATO | In March 1948, Britain, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands signed a collective defence treaty in Brussels, with all parties obligated to act if one of them was attacked.
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Arambai Tenggol pushes for a brand of Meitei nationalism that aligns with the RSS’s politics. It endorses the BJP’s projects, such as the National Register of Citizens, supposedly to save the state from illegal immigrants, including Chins from Myanmar.

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It was India’s success as a liberal democracy and its ability to embrace its diversity and pursue an inclusive development path that attracted vast swathes of people in the neighbourhood towards India.

Sushant Singh writes.
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#Archives | BJP worked out that political representation alone was not enough to endear itself to the EBCs. Since coming to power, BJP has been steadily working to affirm the EBCs’ sense of dignity and self-respect—while serving its own ideological ends.
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Elango, a teenager, is the only breadwinner of his family and supports them by fishing. Many young people from the Irula community are compelled to drop out of school because of their financial circumstances and instead take up fishing at a young age.
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#LokasabhaElection2024 | The #ECI has taken no action based on the revelations of the electoral-bonds scheme. Nor has it intervened on the matter of Kejriwal’s arrest, or on the use of agencies to serve the BJP’s purpose.

‏اِرم آغا reports.
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“The influence of mallakhamb in Villupuram is so strong that if you look around and point at a judge at the Khelo India Youth Games, they will probably be from Villupuram or have practised in Villupuram,” D Natarajan, a coach and practitioner, said.
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#Archives | The Bihar caste census reiterated what parties in the Hindi heartland have always known—the #OBCs , and the #EBCs among them, hold the key to elections. In UP and Bihar, no govt has come to power in recent decades without EBC support.

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#Archives | In many ways, the military has become a willing accomplice in Modi’s political project. By all appearances, the armed forces benefit from the more aggressive and in-your-face nationalism we have witnessed since 2014.

#LokSabhaElections2024
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#Archives | Modi has made good use of the armed forces to burnish his own image. He wastes no opportunity to dress up in military fatigues and regularly invokes fallen soldiers to deflect from disastrous political decisions.

#Elections2024

Sushant Singh:
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Groups such as the Hindu Aikya Vedi led counter-protests attempting to delegitimise the concerns of fishing communities.

CPI(M) leaders, critical of the BJP’s demonisation of religious minorities elsewhere in the country, supported the counter-protest.
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Faced with a communally polarised electorate and a possible erosion in support, Mamata Banerjee has chosen to focus on federal issues, accusing the BJP of being out-of-state zamindars.

The definitive #WestBengal explainer, by Ajachi Chakrabarti:
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Diminishing Return: Assam’s failing anti-CAA protests

Manoranjan Pegu and Suraj Gogoi✍️
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#LokasabhaElection2024 | Like Nitish, Arun Kumar Singh is an Awadhiya Kurmi. “A Kurmi has principles,” he said, adding that a government headed by a Kurmi should be assumed to be fair to everyone.

Sagar reports.
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#LokSabhaElection2024 | Sitharaman's rise as a spin doctor for Modi's broken economy.

“... Sitharaman emulated Modi’s other finance ministers by remaining in a state of denial.”

From 2022, Somesh Jha:
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For the 2G scam, the Supreme Court cancelled 122 telecom licences issued by the previous governments and insisted on auctions.

The Modi government passed the Telecommunications Act to remove the requirement for auctions for “satellite-based services.”
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#LokasabhaElection2024 | The ECI’s increasingly partisan stands would become more evident in the run up to the 2019 general election. “This election was overwhelmed by the overarching influence of money power, hate speech, communalization of politics, abuse of social media and…

#LokSabhaElections2024 | BJP has won over the EBCs, the largest voting bloc of the Hindi belt, by offering representation, dignity and self-respect—all without challenging the Hindu varna hierarchy. How did it manage this feat?

From March, Sunil Kashyap:
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#Archives | Many of Doval’s statements echo the draconian majoritarianism of the BJP. In a speech in 2013, Doval said that the party is the only one that promotes an Indian identity over other identities. “We cannot base our nation-building on diversity.'
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#Archives | The National Security Advisor's performance has been far from extraordinary. Ajit Doval’s public persona as a super-spy and statesman may be too good to be true.

Read Praveen Donthi's profile of Doval.
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