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How Congress is changing with a non-Gandhi at the helm  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np2uQvYUIJE   24th Oct 2023 D K Singh ThePrint

Kharge is rebuilding Congress brick by brick, taking a leaf out of Prashant Kishor’s playbook https://theprint.in/opinion/politically-correct/kharge-is-rebuilding-congress-brick-by-brick-taking-a-leaf-out-of-prashant-kishors-playbook/1815318/    D.K. SINGH 23 October, 2023
This harmony with the Gandhis marks a positive in Kharge’s first year as the party chief. But his real achievement is using his equation with the Gandhis to implement what looks like poll strategist Prashant Kishor’s ‘4 M’ formula to revive the Congress—Messenger, Message, Machinery, and Mechanics.

As it is, the Congress doesn’t have a coherent message yet — it’s largely banking on anti-incumbency by focusing on failures of governance. But it seems to be working on a message now. It is experimenting with Other Backward Classes (OBC) politics through caste census demand, rich-versus-poor narrative through attacks on big businessmen and industrialists like Gautam Adani, freebies to match welfarism, love-versus-hate, and Kamal Nath-style I-am-a-bigger-Hindu campaigns to counter Hindutva. Jury is out on whether this message can counter Modi’s or the BJP’s in the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

The Court's 'no fundamental right to marry' is wrong - Anand Grover  https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-courts-no-fundamental-right-to-marry-is-wrong/article67450210.ece   The Hindu

There is no fundamental right to marry, it holds. On that account, the Court decided that same sex persons cannot marry. In my view this is a wrong decision. However, to the credit of the Court, it directed, unanimously, that same sex couples have to be protected from any harassment

https://www.civilsdaily.com/news/the-courts-no-fundamental-right-to-marry-is-wrong/ The LGBTQI community’s call for equality in marriage is not just a legal battle but a societal transformation. A correction of the recent judgment is a step towards ensuring that no citizen is deemed “not fit for marriage” based on their sexual orientation.

Comment & Notes:
S S: Right to marry = Right to obtain social and legal legitimacy for a stable social-sexual partnership of  ne's own choice. Earlier, same-sex relationship was decriminalised.
In the teeth of vicious opposition from the regime and diverse religious establishments.
But, that was before Modi 2.0.

The Quest to Reclaim Lost Humanity: Anticipating the Next Revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC-0nxOtFas We are all infected by a virus eroding our humanity, as our minds become enslaved to memes that generate more violence in society and harm the environment. If you've ever questioned whether your choices and the memes you've shared contribute to injustice, my dialogue with environmental and human rights activist Medha Patkar offers an alternative perspective to ponder.