Indian Politics and Democracy


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Those concerned about USAID's interference in Indian elections should be equally concerned about USAID's tentacles in India's medical system and social policies. USAID effectively ran India's National Family Health Survey (NFHS) from the 1990s till it was stopped two years ago. This is the most important medical dataset in India and drives a lot of health policy. Not only were we allowing a foreign agency to harvest our medical data but, by allowing them to design surveys and direct analysis, we were letting them influence our national health responses.

Equally worryingly, much of the NFHS questionnaire was deliberately skewed to support certain social narratives. The questionnaire for men, for instance, is only 29 pages but that for women is 94 pages. A lot of the additional questions are deliberately worded to elicit a narrative of intra-family violence against Indian women. Must say, very slyly done.

Readers will recall that late Bibek Debroy and I strongly pushed back against this (including publicly in newspaper columns). Fortunately, GoI took up the matter and the latest NFHS is being done by Health Ministry on its own. Note that readers can verify what I am saying easily as it was all done in plain sight. See link below for an overview :

nfhsiips.in/nfhsuser/about…
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Some people are asking why the USAID did the the 2019-21 NFHS survey and was not removed earlier. Well, it is not so easy to upturn a well established system that went back decades. It takes time to recognise a problem, and build capability to replace it. Nonetheless, GoI has been tightening FCRA over the last decade despite many howls of protest. One can only do more when the Overton Window has moved. The DOGE revelations about USAID has hopefully done that.
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@ezsasa ; @crazywithmath
 
MasterChief said:
Another weak BJP CM.. on the lines of Haryana and MP.. Well.. thats how Mo Shah like to operate..
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She is new face. There is not "weak", but Just how things evolve. MP CM was chosen on thinking of Yadav base. Delhi has given to a woman candidate because last CM from congress was Sheila Dixit.
 
Portfolios allocated in Delhi CM Rekha Gupta’s cabinet:

-Rekha Gupta (CM): Home, Finance, Services, Vigilance, Planning
-Parvesh Verma (Dy CM): Education, PWD, Transport
-Manjinder Singh Sirsa: Health, Urban Dev, Industries
-Ravindra Kumar Indraj: Social Welfare, SC/ST Affairs, Labour
-Kapil Mishra: Water, Tourism, Culture
-Ashish Sood: Revenue, Environment, Food & Civil Supplies
-Pankaj Kumar Singh: Law, Legislative Affairs, Housing
 
ezsasa said:
there are two phases of DYC's public persona. pre- 19th apr 2023 and post.

on 19th apr 2023, he said this



View: https://x.com/SanskarBarot/status/1648396076398022657

what followed was a public backlash.
and there after, there was a change in his public persona.

it takes decades to assess legacy of a judge, it depends on what loopholes one has left in the judgments(especially HC and SC) which gives a " way in" to notorious elements of the society to conduct lawfare against the nation, not interviews and public statements.
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read this in conjunction with above post.
understanding of DYC's statement below changes depending on an individual's awareness of what he said above. ambiguity regarding his baseline.
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"Like law, literature emerges from our society...In opening the law to literature and society, we run the risk of it getting coloured by what may be popular but not necessarily the best. Especially in a day and age where information is often mistaken for knowledge and the line between fact and fiction is blurred in the process, we must proceed with caution. On both professional and personal levels, we must challenge ourselves and rise above our most deeply held biases. Literature that would support nearly every proposition under the sun, legal, moral, or social is simply a click away...To read literature that fortifies our individual beliefs is reductive at best and divisive at worst. As professionals interested in the onward march of our constitutional values. Our job is to expand the frontiers of the law and not to deploy literature to constrict or restrain those boundaries..."


View: https://x.com/ANI/status/1892804543295189031
 
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ezsasa said:
read this in conjunction with above post.
understanding of DYC's statement below changes depending on an individual's knowledge of what he said above. ambiguity regarding his baseline.
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"Like law, literature emerges from our society...In opening the law to literature and society, we run the risk of it getting coloured by what may be popular but not necessarily the best. Especially in a day and age where information is often mistaken for knowledge and the line between fact and fiction is blurred in the process, we must proceed with caution. On both professional and personal levels, we must challenge ourselves and rise above our most deeply held biases. Literature that would support nearly every proposition under the sun, legal, moral, or social is simply a click away...To read literature that fortifies our individual beliefs is reductive at best and divisive at worst. As professionals interested in the onward march of our constitutional values. Our job is to expand the frontiers of the law and not to deploy literature to constrict or restrain those boundaries..."


View: https://x.com/ANI/status/1892804543295189031
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Like all Indian "public intellectual" ( wonder if he have one in the past 75 yrs) who keep shrieking de colonisation yet bow before the qibla pointing in the western direction much like it is for a religious community here except the former's qibla is further west of that latter's west , his is not only a colonised mind , it also suffers from do goodism .

There's this constant urge in him , like it has been with most of his ilk abroad & inspired by them in India , not only to "do good" but also to be seen as such by his peers , his profession , academia , other "public intellectuals," media , babooos , dhotis & the unwashed masses , irrespective the consequences on society.

I've never seen another CJI in all these years give so many interviews & address public gatherings as much as this guy & it's not even 4 months since he's retired from the post .

He seems desperate to seek validation & be validated , apart from leaving a legacy in the public eye , as it were . Since he's met mostly with apathy , he's taken it on to himself , to "educate the masses" about his legacy.

What a vain person !
 
Azaad said:
Like all Indian "public intellectual" ( wonder if he have one in the past 75 yrs) who keep shrieking de colonisation yet bow before the qibla pointing in the western direction much like it is for a religious community here except the former's qibla is further west of that latter's west , his is not only a colonised mind , it also suffers from do goodism .

There's this constant urge in him , like it has been with most of his ilk abroad & inspired by them in India , not only to "do good" but also to be seen as such by his peers , his profession , academia , other "public intellectuals," media , babooos , dhotis & the unwashed masses , irrespective the consequences on society.

I've never seen another CJI in all these years give so many interviews & address public gatherings as much as this guy & it's not even 4 months since he's retired from the post .

He seems desperate to seek validation & be validated , apart from leaving a legacy in the public eye , as it were . Since he's met mostly with apathy , he's taken it on to himself , to "educate the masses" about his legacy.

What a vain person !
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polishing his post retirement CV.
 
Azaad said:
Like all Indian "public intellectual" ( wonder if he have one in the past 75 yrs) who keep shrieking de colonisation yet bow before the qibla pointing in the western direction much like it is for a religious community here except the former's qibla is further west of that latter's west , his is not only a colonised mind , it also suffers from do goodism .

There's this constant urge in him , like it has been with most of his ilk abroad & inspired by them in India , not only to "do good" but also to be seen as such by his peers , his profession , academia , other "public intellectuals," media , babooos , dhotis & the unwashed masses , irrespective the consequences on society.

I've never seen another CJI in all these years give so many interviews & address public gatherings as much as this guy & it's not even 4 months since he's retired from the post .

He seems desperate to seek validation & be validated , apart from leaving a legacy in the public eye , as it were . Since he's met mostly with apathy , he's taken it on to himself , to "educate the masses" about his legacy.

What a vain person !
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He's desperately seeking validation and wants to leave a legacy in everyone's eyes is because of the fact that he's never going to measure upto his father's achievements. The struggle to come out of his father's shadow is what makes him do all this. He knows history will remember his dad not him. That's why he is desperate to teach the masses about his legacy.
 

Indian Express thinks Musk can’t read numbers, claims DOGE made false claims about USAID funding, Rajdeep and Zubair amplify misleading ‘fact-check’​


The Indian Express attempted to suggest that US President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and his team of nerds at DOGE all goofed up on numbers and somehow made the Himalayan blunder of mistaking Bangladesh for India.

www.opindia.com

Indian Express publishes misleading 'fact check' on USAID funding in India, Rajdeep Sardesai and Mohammed Zubair amplify claims

The Indian Express attempted to suggest that US President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and his team of nerds at DOGE all goofed up on numbers and somehow made the Himalayan blunder of mistaking Bangladesh for India. | OpIndia News
www.opindia.com www.opindia.com



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Darbari's trying very hard

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View: https://x.com/amitmalviya/status/1892828778549629176
 

Massive Row In Kerala After Hamas Leaders' Photos Paraded On Elephants​


The banners, carried atop elephants by a group of youths, were part of the "Thrithala Fest" in Thrithala, Palakkad, on Sunday evening.​



View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1891425662340129091

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Remember that Ham-Ass had participated in the occupied Kashmir pro terrorist Pakistan rally.

Ham-Ass > Indian interests
 
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