Christophe Jaffrelot is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and teaches South Asian politics and history at Sciences Po, Paris. An international scholar specializing on Indian politics, he has written several books focusing on India’s democracy, mobilization of castes and Hindu nationalism.
His forthcoming book on Narendra Modi’s experiment with Gujarat will be published in February.
Failure to boost cyber security could cost the world economy a staggering USD 3 trillion as new regulations and approaches to deal with destructive attacks would stifle innovation, says a report.
With the recent proliferation of cyberattacks, corporate executives need to devote increasing attention to protecting information assets and on-line operations, according to the report released today by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in collaboration with global consultancy McKinsey & Company.
The Delhi Secretariat, the national capital’s seat of power, has always remained out of bounds for the common man. However, thanks to the unconventional ways of the three-week-old AAP-led government, the imposing edifice has undergone a major transformation by opening its doors to all.
Be it the issues related to inadequate water supplies, inflated electricity bills or even giving advice to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on how to run the government efficiently, people from all walks of life are heading to the secretariat in the heart of Delhi to get their concerns addressed.
Friends dropped in at the statesque Baig Haveli to greet Mohammad Ali Baig on his birthday. The heritage place was decked up with flowers and period lanterns in true theatrical and regal decorum.
The general elections are but a few months away. Many of us have been working for years in the field of health, water rights, and women’s issues, civil rights. Many of us are writers, academics, teachers, students. While we may think of our work as deeply political, we have not been engaged directly in politics, or at least electoral politics. 2014, however is different. The danger of communalism is imminent. The portends are dark already. As we inch closer to the elections, the façade of development talk is forgotten and an unabashed Hindutva agenda begins to unfold.
The Congress has several reasons, stated and unstated, for refusing to name Rahul Gandhi as the prime ministerial candidate despite the clamour in his favour by his acolytes.
These include the party’s “tradition”, as Sonia Gandhi reminded the working committee, of letting legislators choose their leader after the election, and the probable disinclination to convert the forthcoming general election into a presidential-style contest between Rahul and Narendra Modi.
On Jan 20 and 22, Middle East watchers will be riveted on two different conference venues in Geneva or thereabouts.
The first meeting will concern itself with the agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme.
The five Permanent Members of the Security Council, the US, Russia, China, Britain, France plus Germany and Iran agreed on a deal Jan 12. It will be watched for six months. The same deal, in a somewhat raw form, had actually been announced in November. Technical details had to be filled in. This was accomplished Sunday.
It has been nearly four months since the communal riots and horror stories of rape surfaced from the 7-9 September communal riots in Muzaffarnagar, India’s deadliest in a decade, which left more than 60 dead and 50,000 plus homeless.
Gopal Singh Arora’s brothers thought he was crazy to stay back in Pakistan during the post-Partition riots. But his closest friend, Hayat Khan Baloch, had left him with no other option. If you leave, Baloch told him, you will have to either behead me or take me along.
It is the world’s largest democracy but India’s political system suffers from serious flaws. This much is known to – and admitted by – almost all Indians. What activist-researcher-freelance journalist Vinay Sahasrabuddhe does is to plunge into the depths of all that has gone wrong with Indian democracy, as only a scholar can. “Democracy in India is more impressive in form than substance.” Unlike most others, he comes up with possible solutions to stem the rot.
The ‘sweeping’ changes in the Indian political arena after the Delhi assembly elections a few weeks ago became the backdrop of the just-concluded 12th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) conference in New Delhi. Whether it was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s inaugural speech, the keynote speeches by cabinet ministers or the farewell address by President Pranab Mukherjee, the common refrain of highlighting the government’s achievements over the last decade, especially the last five years, was always present.
Slow legal action against arsonists and rapists is one of the major reasons forcing victims of the Muzaffarnagar riots to stay back in relief camps as they fear they will be targeted again, National Commission for Minorities (NCM) chief Wajahat Habibullah has said.
He also said the government was “slow” in giving better facilities to the victims at the camps and steps were taken to improve the living conditions only after the media highlighted deaths due to cold.
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A new research has revealed that kids who watch too much television have lower IQ levels.
It was revealed that watching TV changes the structure of the frontopolar region, which is linked to intellectual ability.
Japanese researchers from Tohoku University looked at 276 children aged five to 18 who watched up to four hours of TV a day and found that those who spent most time in front of the box had more brain cells round the frontopolar area, the Daily Star reported.
The researchers said children with higher IQs showed “thinning” in this area.
I was scribbling notes for a seminar on the occasion of Maulana Azad’s birthday in February when the mind made an extraordinary connection with a historic event I was witness to.
In February 1981, an obscure village of Meenakashipuram, about 15 km from Tenkasi in Tamil Nadu, shot into prominence because 150 low caste Hindus converted to Islam. I was then with the Indian Express in Chennai.
An opinion poll appearing in a major English daily on Thursday revealed that 44 percent of Indians are likely to vote for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which currently heads the government in Delhi.
The poll immediately sparked off a debate among politicians.
A research agency for India’s national newspaper, Times of India, conducted a poll across Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune and Ahmedabad.
Actress Malaika Arora Khan says the Khan brothers — Arbaaz, Sohail and Salman have the talent of producing handsome kids.
When asked what is the talent of the Khan brothers, Malaika says, “they have the talent of producing handsome kids. Except Salman… Whenever he gets married …It (kid) will be handsome.”
Malaika, 40, married actor-producer Arbaaz and they have a son named Arhaan. Sohail married Seema Sachdev in 1998 and they have two children- Nirvaan and Yohan. Salman is yet to settle down in life.
Many Muslims in Delhi are very happy with the arrival of Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on the political scene. But Muslims, who always had a representation in the Sheila Dikshit cabinet, are disappointed that there is no Muslim in Kejriwal’s cabinet.
Four months after the Muzaffarnagar riots left at least 60 dead and thousands homeless, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is distributing a 24-page magazine, titled Muzaffarnagar Danga, in the area defending the two Jat youths whose deaths are reported to have set off the violence.
The two youths, Sachin and Gaurav, are reported to have been killed after they allegedly killed a Muslim youth for harassing their sister. ”How can a brother tolerate misbehaviour towards his sister?” says an unsigned editorial in the magazine, which also carries photographs of the two youths.
As a famous market forecaster of the 1970s rightly said, in the financial markets, what is obvious is obviously wrong. The year 2014 has begun with an overwhelmingly bullish consensus towards US and European equities with the commencement of US “tapering” and the rise in US 10-year yield towards three percent representing signs of a healthy recovery of the real economy.
Fatima Khatoon and Mohammad Kalam have three things in common: they belong to the Nat community, live in red-light areas in Bihar and are fighting against prostitution and human trafficking.
While Khatoon got married at an early age into a family of prostitutes and child and women traffickers, Kalam’s sisters were sex workers.
A Guildford woman has become the first female Muslim police officer to be included in the Queen’s honours.
These award is given to Mrs Nikki Hubbard to her contribution to the community against Domestic violence which she suffer personally someone she knew was the victim of domestic abuse.
Mrs Hubbard joined the police in 2006, having previously run her own management business. She changed career.
Several spouses spent their New Year’s Day seeking out an extramarital affair, it has been revealed.
According to Ashley Madison, 27,511 married Americans logged on for the first time to look for an affair partner, which is 20.7 percent higher from New Year’s Day last year and 344 percent higher than a typical day, the Huffington Post reported.
A new survey suggests that the number of overweight and obese adults in the developing world has almost quadrupled to around one billion since 1980.
UK think tank the Overseas Development Institute said one in three people worldwide was now overweight and urged governments to do more to influence diets.
In the UK, 64 percent of adults are classed as being overweight or obese, the BBC reported.
The report predicts a “huge increase” in heart attacks, strokes and diabetes.
A new study has found that novice teen drivers are at greater risk of road accidents because they multi-task at higher frequency rates – dialing cell phones, eating, and talking to passengers, etc.
“Novice drivers are more likely to engage in high-risk secondary tasks more frequently over time as they became more comfortable with driving,” Charlie Klauer, group leader for teen risk and injury prevention at the transportation institute’s Center for Vulnerable Road User Safety, said.