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*Affirmative action’s impact on jobs has been limited, a fact lateral entry was making public* Rathin Roy The writer is former member, EAC-PM Synopsis *The article examined the efficiency of closed shops and lateral recruitment, emphasizing asset specificity. It argued that external recruitment enhances expertise and efficiency in government roles. Concerns were raised about lateral entries bypassing caste reservations, yet it was noted that upper-caste dominance remains prevalent in senior civil service roles despite reservations* https://m.economictimes.com/opinion/et-commentary/affirmative-actions-impact-on-jobs-has-been-limited-a-fact-lateral-entry-was-making-public/articleshow/112786510.cms?s=08 By Rathin Roy Last Updated: Aug 25, 2024, 11:10:55 PM IST For your typical neoliberal classroom economist, 'closed shops' - no lateral recruitment - are inefficient. If fetters are placed on the ability to hire people, then there is an inevitable efficiency loss. But policy economi...

MOHAN GURUSWAMY: On August 18, the Chief Justice of India, Justice DY Chandrachud had decided to hear the matter taking Suo Moto cognizance of it. Suo moto is a Latin term that means "on its own motion". The CJI took cognizance of this matter based on the uproar in the media, both mainstream and social.  Our Supreme Court has the power to take up cases on its own initiative, without a petition or interest being filed. This power is called suo moto and allows the court to address issues of public concern, especially those that involve safety and fundamental rights. Considering the passions and outrage the Kolkata rape and murder case, the CJI decided to hear it almost immediately and also to broadcast the hearings live on channels such as YouTube. Senior lawyers Kapil Sibal and Menaka Guruswamy were appointed by the State of West Bengal to represent it in the Supreme Court in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital matter. The rape and brutal rape of a trainee doctor on August...

MOHAN GURUSWAMY: Is another global economic crisis inevitable? Speaking at the London Business School recently, former RBI Governor, Raghuram Rajan warned that the global economy was "slowly slipping" into the Great Depression-like problems of the 1930s and the central banks need to sit together and define new "rules of the game" to find a better solution to deal with it. Rajan, who has been the IMF's Chief Economist and is among the few to have rightly predicted the financial crisis of 2007.  The essential problem we need to confront is how to rectify a world economic system that has gone hopelessly wrong and resembles nothing like what was envisaged in the early 1940s. To understand the situation we are in, imagine living on an island as a part of a small group, and in this group people are assigned specific vocations and tasks. In this system one person makes clothes, another shoes, someone pots and pans, someone grows food and someone else prints money to fa...

By : WING COMDR VENKI IYER The helicopter appeared over the late morning horizon. We were to receive Mr Lachhman Singh Rathore who was visiting our Flight Unit to perform the last rites of his son, Flying Officer Vikram Singh. Only the day before, I had sent the telegram, “Deeply regret to inform that your son Flying Officer Vikram Singh lost his life in a flying accident early this morning. Death was instantaneous.” It was the first time for me- to meet and manage the bereaved next of kin, in this case the Father of the brave officer.  While most of the desolate family members insist on seeing the body, many a time there isn’t a body to show !! Flying Officer Vikram Singh’s remains were only a few kilos –scrapped from what was left in the cockpit. We had to weigh the wooden coffin with wood and earth. The pilot brought the helicopter to a perfect touchdown. Soon Mr Lachhman Singh Rathor was helped down the ladder.A small and frail man he was, maybe of 80 years, clad in an immacula...

*?*  Murad Ali Baig   Language is a huge issue in India and making the national language Hindi adopted by all Indian states has been one of the main pillars of the `Hindutva’ ideology that is the base philosophy of the ruling BJP Government. Its efforts to force Hindi on all states has however been staunchly resisted especially in the states of south India that have a very long and rich language and literary tradition. In reaction they have pointed out that Hindi has never been used or even mentioned in any old Indian texts. Many will be shocked to learn that Hindi is actually just over 300 years old and that it was largely the result of the British effort to create a common language that they needed for the command of their mainly north Indian soldiers who spoke a number of languages and dialects. Very few people know that it was as recently as 1798 that a Scottish surgeon of the East India Company named John Borthwick Gilchrist compiled a `Hindustani – English Dictionary of ...

ఎవ్వరికి కావాలి బీసీల ఓట్లు     ఎవ్వడు వేయమన్నడు కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీ కి ఓటు , తెలివి లేని బీసీలు కాబట్టి ఓటు వేస్తున్నారు అంటున్న కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీ, ఎందుకు ఇవ్వాలి బీసీలకు సీట్లు?         *నిదర్శనం చూడండి* - ముఖ్యమంత్రిగా రేవంత్ రెడ్డి - TSPSC చైర్మన్‌గా మహేందర్ రెడ్డి - ప్రభుత్వ సలహాదారుగా వేం నరేందర్ రెడ్డి - MLC గా కోదండరాం రెడ్డి  మంత్రులుగా - ఉత్తమ్ కుమార్ రెడ్డి - కోమటిరెడ్డి వెంకట్ రెడ్డి  - పొంగులేటి శ్రీనివాస రెడ్డి - CM Secretary చంద్రశేఖర్ రెడ్డి - CM OSD అజిత్ రెడ్డి - CPRO అయోధ్య రెడ్డి - ఇంటలిజెన్స్ చీఫ్ శివధర్ రెడ్డి - అడ్వకేట్ జనరల్ సుదర్శన్ రెడ్డి - అడిషనల్ అడ్వకేట్ జనరల్ రజనీకాంత్ రెడ్డి - హైద్రాబాద్ CP శ్రీనివాస్ రెడ్డి - C M Personal PA జైపాల్ రెడ్డి - CM CSO చక్రవర్తి రెడ్డి - మీడియా అకాడమీ చైర్మన్ గా  శ్రీనివాస్ రెడ్డి  - ప్రణాళిక బోర్డ్ వైస్ చైర్మన్ గా చిన్నారెడ్డి - T SAT Ceo గా బొందనపల్లి వేణుగోపాల్ రెడ్డి - ప్రెస్ అకాడమీ చైర్మన్ - శ్రీనివాస్ రెడ్డి - టూరిజం డిపార్ట్మెంట్ కార్పొరేషన్  - పటేల్ రమేష్ రెడ్డి - స్పో...

Chinnaiah Jangam Aug 19, 2024     Instead of building a robust ideology that can challenge Hindutva – a task they have failed to carry out – many liberals are busy delegitimising social justice politics. Rahul Gandhi has become a target of attack for them because of his insistence on the need for caste enumeration Rahul Gandhi holding up the Constitution of India and a picture of Dr B.R. Ambedkar. Photo: X/@RahulGandhi On July 31, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, in his  Indian Express  column  ‘Caste Questions to Rahul Gandhi,’ derided the Leader of the Opposition for demanding a caste census in parliament. According to Mehta, “Invocation of caste becomes a substitute for serious thinking and will not serve the cause of social justice or healthy institutions.” He begins his article by laying out the unacceptable aspects of caste injustice and dehumanisation that continue even today but then bemoans Gandhi’s caste census demand for leading us to the “suffocating cul-de-sac o...

By Nethrapal  Various Dalit intellectuals today are not working against upper caste intellectuals but they are working on how to make subcategorisation ineffective: [1] One of them suggested that an additional quota for poor SC/ST can be introduced in EWS?  Hon'ble Supreme court has held that EWS is not applicable for SC,ST,OBCs. They want this amendment to be done so that their share remains constant.  But nobody answered on how a Madiga kid who was not able to compete earlier with Mala kid will be able to compete with Brahmin kid in EWS category.  [2] Another suggestion is that creamy layer and subcategorisation will go together. That is creamy layer has to be implemented for subcategorisation to become operational This has already been clarified in the judgement and even by central government that they are two different issues and there is no point mixing both up. Union government is clearly not in favor of implementing creamy layer as per various press reports. H...

♦️India is the first and only country to explicitly adopt scientific temper in its constitution. In the forty-second amendment in 1976, Article 51 A(h) was added under the Fundamental Duties that states: [It shall be the duty of every citizen of India] To develop scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform. Six pillars of Scientific Tempers are :-  (1) Scientific Literacy  (ii) Scientific attitudes  (iii)Scientific thinking  (iv)Scientific method  (v) Scientific perception  (vi) scientific habit.  (singh S J,2019). These factors are taken as for measuring scientific temper. Why is scientific temperament important in students? Scientific temper of our students help them to be open-minded, rational, objective, persistent, having ability to accept criticism & to revise their beliefs as per new evidences Eight components of scientific temper viz.   Healthy Scepticism,  Objective Intellectual honesty,  Rationality , ...

Justice Chandru committee was formed by the Tamil Nadu government in August 2023 after two Dalit children in Nanguneri – 17-year-old Chinnadurai and his 13-year-old sister – were attacked by six classmates of Chinnadurai, who belonged to a dominant caste group. The committee submitted its 600-page report to the Tamil Nadu Government on June 18, 2024. The committee found casteism entrenched in classrooms and has given several recommendations. Justice Chandru and TNM’s Azeefa Fathima, who reports on caste-related issues, speaks to Dhanya Rajendran. #Caste ​ #TamilNadu ​ #India ​ #Dmk ​ #News ​ https://youtu.be/lRwj-mGaaVQ?si=IJTfXZY7EFZM5prx

Mohan Guruswamy  Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power ten years ago. The BJP manifesto promised a Uniform Civil Code. He slept for this entire duration till this morning without a word or a move towards a common or uniform civil code. He even ignored a Supreme Court directive to wake up and act on enacting it. But now that another Lok Sabha election soon looms, given his dismal track record of inept and corrupt governance, Mr Modi needs an incendiary issue to arouse his army of “bhakts” to have a “Hindus vs Others” issue, such as the uniform civil code. He will now traipse around the country abusing and insulting Muslims over their anti-women personal laws such as multiple wives and easy divorces still endemic despite of a law against the triple talaq. I have no doubt that the Muslim leadership, by and large, will also take the bait and describe it as an assault on secularism. All personal laws in India are misogynistic and medieval. But that will not be discussed. Mr Modi an...

We live in a world of philosophy (love of wisdom) and might not be aware of its impact on the way that we are taught or the way that we think.  It affects our social fiber, our form of government and our constructive dialogue. Western philosophy is usually attributed to pre-Socratic Greek philosophers with a lineage that continues through Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.  This has been the basis for Western philosophy for over 2 thousand years.  Bertrand Russell is a remarkable philosopher and polymath until the early 1970's with many philosophers before and after his death. The philosophy of the Eastern hemisphere is different in numerous ways. Western philosophy is mostly divided up into five categories and these are: Epistemology The study of knowledge, which has a long history in Western philosophy dating back to the ancient Greeks. Metaphysics The study of reality, which is often considered complex and abstract. Some people associate it with religion or mys...

The manifestation of untouchability has changed from its physical aspects to more intangible forms* ♦️Why are a majority of applicants for academic posts under the SC/ST category declared as “not found suitable”?  ♦️How many law firms or chartered accountant firms are owned and run by the SC and ST communities?  ♦️And why do we still have reported cases of deaths from manual scavenging in the country, though the practice has been constitutionally abolished? ♦️ Why did a Dalit IPS officer still need police protection to ride a mare as part of a procession in his village in Haryana as recently as 2022?  Marginalisation in India is a complex exercise that needs caste data, anthropological analysis. I lived in a rented accommodation as a student in Delhi University. One day, tired of Delhi’s water woes, I asked my landlady if I could call somebody and get our water tank cleaned. Unsurprisingly, my landlady replied, “Ab C***r (using a term for members of the Jatav community) ...

August 8, 2024, 7:55 PM IST Dr. Chandan Yadav in Voices, India, politics, TOI Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email  Dr. Chandan Yadav Dr. Chandan Yadav National Secretary, Indian National Congress With Kamala Harris’ rise as the Democrat contender for the White House, the oldest and largest democracies of the world are now engaging in discussions of similar paradigms, with the issues of race and caste. While Indian intellectuals rightly so are not only discussing American politics in regard to the issue of race but they are also asserting Harris’ non-white identity, however they seem to shy away from the realities of caste in Indian society and politics. This is because American politics will not bite them at home, while a caste census is perceived to be a real threat to the privilege that they enjoy in their day-to-day lives. The Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi raised a much-needed question with regards to the Union Budget that was presented by the Government, wherein he asked ab...

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/the-case-for-a-caste-census/article68390396.ece Published - July 10, 2024 11:01 pm IST The Census Act, 1948 should be amended to make enumeration by caste mandatory, instead of leaving it to the whims of the Union executive. Such data can be collected as part of the regular Census, with a few pertinent queries added to the questionnaire K. Ashok Vardhan Shetty JD(U) workers and supporters celebrate after the declaration of Bihar’s caste-based census report, in Patna, on October 4, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Peter Drucker famously said, “Only what gets measured gets managed.” The problems of social groups that have been historically discriminated against (be it by caste, race, religion, gender, disability etc.) cannot be resolved without collecting data group-identity wise. Doing so is not a capitulation to identity politics but a vital step towards informed policy making and inclusive development. For instance, Germany’s census does not enumerate p...