Instead of enabling close coordination with states to improve educational standards, the UGC draft regulations will marginalise the role of states and curtail diversity
To portray the Telangana peasants’ movement against the Nizam as an anti-Muslim struggle and the merger of Hyderabad princely state with the Indian Union as ‘liberation’ is absolute distortion of history
A nuclear landscape is not necessarily just Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Chernobyl and Fukushima with their burnt human forms and devastated cities. Nuclear landscapes are terra nullius, nobody’s land, because they have been rendered unfit for life
With both QUAD and AUKUS jostling for strategic relevance, the two left out countries of QUAD — Japan and India —may feel peer pressure to integrate more with the US military alliance system
