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"Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath while announcing the new museum in Agra raised a pertinent question about the legacy of Moghuls and took a stand that the symbols of colonialism would not have any place in Uttar Pradesh. As expected, the secular intellectuals were taken aback. They have problems with naming the museum with Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, as invoking the idea of ‘Hindavi Swarajya’ itself has been a communal idea for them. As usual with their skewed sense of history based on colonial myths, they started giving citations about the heroics of the Mughal era from their own sources, claiming them to be the heritage of Bharat. This episode has allowed us to look at our history with an open mind and historical documents."

- September 29, 2020

# OPINION : Tuesday, September 29, 2020. 8:00. PM. - 2254. ##1. Yogi Adityanath is Right ‘’How can Mughals be our hero?” : 29-Sep-2020 : Nikhil Yadav : Organiser : Media Report. What’s in a name? Asked William Shakespeare. Name and form are ,however interrelated; if I say Banana, you can’t think of coconut. Name is especially important in the case of an individual. An individual's name reflects his culture, tradition, and values. Recently, Mughal Museum in Agra has been named after Great Maratha King Maharaja Chhatrapati Shivaji and as the expected huge debate has started and certainly lost journalists trying to find their voice in the din. Why the name is important if that’s the question then given the free run of the secular historians right from the dawn of India’s independence, made us almost forget our own history, our ancestry, our tradition, and our culture. We have been served cooked up and selective history to build a narrative that would i...

Many of the common Indians who travelled to these places settled down permanently and married local women, while the Princes who arrived would establish new kingdoms. Both led to widespread Indianisation of these Far East societies, leading to the spread of Hinduism and Buddhism in these areas through art, literature, language, and social customs.

- September 28, 2020

# OPINION : Monday, September 28, 2020. 7:35. PM. - 2253. ##The far east and its ancient Indian connections : 23 September, 2020 : Monidipa Bose Dey : Opindia : Media Report. *Monidipa Bose Dey. ###A Chinese eyewitness account of such a kingdom in Malay peninsula (Tuein-suin) talks of "500 merchant families, 200 Buddhists, and thousands of Brahmins" settled permanently in that country, and talks of locals giving their daughters in marriages to these Indians. *Cover photo by Partha Sanyal: Indian boat on the wall of Raghunath Temple (1772 CE) Bhalia, West Bengal. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was the call of the Suvarnabhumi or Suvarnadvipa– the “land of gold” that lay in the Far East and was reputed to hold vast quantities of gold and precious minerals, which got the initial attention of ancient Indian traders and merchants and made them explore beyond their own frontiers. These far away lands a...

The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2020 : Ministry: Finance

- September 27, 2020

# OPINION : Sunday, September 27, 2020. 8:35. PM. - 2252. The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2020 was introduced in Lok Sabha on September 20, 2020. The Bill amends the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010. The Act regulates the acceptance and utilisation of foreign contribution by individuals, associations and companies. Foreign contribution is the donation or transfer of any currency, security or article (of beyond a specified value) by a foreign source. ## The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2020 : Ministry: Finance Prohibition to accept foreign contribution: Under the Act, certain persons are prohibited to accept any foreign contribution. These include: election candidates, editor or publisher of a newspaper, judges, government servants, members of any legislature, and political parties, among others. The Bill adds public servants (as defined under the Indian Penal Code) to this list. Public...

"Mamata Banerjee’s has been a government of contradictions: she speaks of federalism but does not want to share COVID data with the Union Government; she speaks of secularism but her pandering to Muslim orthodoxy has even made Muslim women turn away from the TMC; she used to speak against a ‘culture of violence’ propagated by CPI (M) in the State and yet her party is using the exact same tricks of the trade that the Communists did before them "

- September 26, 2020

# OPINION : Saturday, September 26, 2020. 7:25. PM. - 2251. ## Political Callisthenics in Didi’s Poschimbanga : 26-Sep-2020 : Dr Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar : Organiser : Media Report. ### Hollow promises, corruption, misrule, unemployment and appeasement The tragedy in West Bengal today is that the claims of the government and the reality on the ground are often miles apart. This is especially true when it comes to employment in the State. Mamata Banerjee and the TMC came to power on a strong anti-incumbency wave against the communists and her promises of changing the State, bringing in infrastructure, jobs and opportunities. Almost a decade after she came to power, while Didi lauds Bengal’s unemployment rate for being lower than the national average and attributes it to her government’s economic strategies, we hear stories such as the heartwrenching one wherein a daily labourer and his wife sold their two-and-a-half month daughter for Rs 3000 to face the financi...

Parliament on Wednesday passed the three labour code bills – the Occupational Safety, Health And Working Conditions Code, 2020; the Industrial Relations Code, 2020; and the Code on Social Security, 2020 – merging 24 central labour laws in a major boost to labour reforms. The National Democratic Alliance government has now merged 29 central laws into four codes. In August 2019, Parliament had passed the first of the codes, the Wage Code.

- September 24, 2020

# OPINION : Friday, September 25, 2020. 8:39. AM. - 2250 ##Understanding the new labour codes : Sep 24, 2020 : Zia Haq : Hindustan Times, New Delhi : Media Report. ###The Industrial Relations Code, 2020, bring new rules for hiring and firing of labour in mid-sized and large industries, making retrenchment easier. The National Democratic Alliance government has now merged 29 central laws into four codes.(HT Photo) Parliament on Wednesday passed the three labour code bills – the Occupational Safety, Health And Working Conditions Code, 2020; the Industrial Relations Code, 2020; and the Code on Social Security, 2020 – merging 24 central labour laws in a major boost to labour reforms. The National Democratic Alliance government has now merged 29 central laws into four codes. In August 2019, Parliament had passed the first of the codes, the Wage Code. The Industrial Relations Code, 2020, bring new rules for hiring and firing of labour in mid-sized and large industries, making retr...

Indians now make up about 20-30% of the graduate student population in top institutions across the globe, the tech giants of the world also have a similar trend among employees and companies like Google, Microsoft, IBM, and Pepsi (formerly) have CEOs of Indian origin. Also, in recent years, the Startup ecosystem has flourished in India and the number of Indian unicorns is surging. A new education policy (NEP 2020) has been introduced, which provides a glimmer of hope, though I wouldn’t count my chickens before they hatch, NEP 2020 seems to be a step in the right direction with supposed thrust on actual learning and not just rote memorization and getting a degree. As an optimistic sceptic, I hope there is a transformation, change and a phoenix rises from the ashes.

- September 22, 2020

------------------------------------------------------------------- # OPINION : Tuesday, September 22, 2020. 9:36. AM. - 2249 ##. Of Macaulay and Nehru: A dilapidated education system and the need for the phoenix to rise from the ashes : 18 September, 2020 : Kshitij Chopra : Opindia : Media Report. ###What was taken by Macauley was history, context, and language from primary education, but Nehru took something far more important - the scientific temperament and method from the institutions of higher education. *Jawaharlal Nehru (Image source: The Print) A nation is all but a community. A community of people who have a commonality, it maybe is language, ethnicity, history, or a common culture. The most valuable or critical aspect of a nation is its human resource. For a nation to thrive, the well-being of its human resource or populace is of utmost importance, it directly affects both the social fabric as well as the economic strength of any nation. It has far-reaching implications...