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Gramya Manthan is a 10-day transformative leadership development program - designed to expose Indian youth to the diverse knowledge system of rural India while focusing on inner transformation, systemic awareness, and community development.
For over a decade, one of the longest-running rural immersion programs, Gramya Manthan, envisions self and - in the long term - systemic and structural development through equal and participative dialogue between urban and rural India.
Times of London - Editorial Prime Suspect
Mr Modi’s muscular instincts are well known. Under his rule India has slipped down global rankings for religious and press freedom. In February the BBC’s offices in Delhi were raided in retaliation for a documentary alleging that Mr Modi failed to protect Muslims suffering deadly sectarian attacks in 2002 when he was chief minister of Gujarat. His foreign policy is marked by a reluctance to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a pragmatic if cynical stance based on trade and Moscow’s importance as an arms supplier. But the sanctioning of a political assassination of a foreign national would take matters to an altogether different level...The diplomatic fallout from this affair is likely to be extensive. This is not Russians carrying out a “wet job” on Russians on foreign soil, which in the case of Sergei and Yulia Skripal resulted in severe reprisals against Russian embassies in the West. It is allegedly the murder by a foreign power of a Canadian citizen in Canada. This is a huge provocation that Mr Modi and his shadowy lieutenants in India’s intelligence apparatus may come to regret.
Canada's allegations politically driven, there's degree of prejudice: MEA on diplomatic row Sep 21, 2023 https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/canadas-allegations-politically-driven-theres-degree-of-prejudice-mea-on-india-canada-row-101695292917077.html
The statement from MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi confirmed that Canada shared no specific information regarding the allegations. "From our side, very specific evidence of criminal activities based on Canadian soil has been shared with the Canadian authorities on a regular basis but has not been acted upon," the MEA spokesperson said
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/09/20/if-india-ordered-a-murder-in-canada-there-must-be-consequences If India ordered a murder in Canada, there must be consequences India denies everything. But Canada is reported to have shared intelligence about the murder with its allies in the “Five Eyes” pact. None appears to have questioned it. Shortly after Mr Trudeau levelled the charge in Canada’s parliament, America and Britain released cautiously supportive statements, urging India to co-operate with a Canadian probe.
Delimitation debate: gender vs regional, caste identities https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/delimitation-debate-gender-vs-regional-caste-identities/article67327620.ece September 20, 2023 The next delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies will involve two shifts — from the southern to northern and eastern States, and from men to women across India “Northern States like Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have decennial growth rates of 12% to 15%, whereas, in the southern States, the decennial growth rates range between 6% and 10%. .. In the process, the serious concerns regarding the diminishing say of States that have stabilised their populations in the affairs of the Union could possibly be overshadowed by the countrywide unanimity on women’s empowerment.
So the proposed expansion of women’s representation in lawmaking will weaken not only politics around regional identity, but also autonomous OBC politics in the Hindi heartland. The BJP had already subsumed caste identity politics within its Hindutva umbrella to a significant extent in the heartland.
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