Daily Archives: October 31, 2019

Desegregation in U.S. schools

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday [October 29] flatly decreed that all American public schools, which still remain segregated, must desegregate at once. From now on, the Supreme Court ruling said school districts must operate only unitary schools which both white and black students can attend. Yesterday’s decision was as historic …

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Visiting Kashmir

The Centre must change the situation in Kashmir, not just the global perception of it On the face of it, the government’s decision to allow the first foreign delegation to visit Srinagar, nearly three months after the decision to amend Article 370 of the Constitution and split the State of …

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Test by night

Innovation is inevitable in the longestand oldest of cricket’s many formats In these times of instant gratification, Test cricket with its five-day tenure might seem an anachronism. To make it seemingly worse, these long-winding contests can also throw up a draw, which flies against sport’s result-oriented culture. Yet, despite a …

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Still a developing country

India’s publicity overdrive about development can come back to bite it at the WTO While on the one hand, the official narrative in India is that of a country making rapid developmental strides since 2014, on the other, when it comes to developmental status at the World Trade Organization (WTO), …

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Free trade over fair trade

Fair trade is often an excuse to raise more protectionist barriers to serve domestic special interest groups Free trade, which enjoys almost unanimous support among economists, has come under severe attack from politicians across the world. According to the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, the U.S.-China …

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Building a stronger investment base

The Tamil Nadu government should match its outreach activities with speedy decision-making Tamil Nadu is not known to be a State that markets itself on a large scale to grab the attention of the rest of the world. Even when the process of economic liberalisation gained momentum in the late …

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Upholding the ideals of fairness and rectitude

Bright-line recusal rules demand that a judge looks not to his moral sense but considers what a reasonable person thinks The right to a fair hearing is at the heart of the rule of law. But in India today this notion increasingly appears to be a chimerical dream. The latest …

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Internationalising the Kashmir issue

After the visit by MPs of the European Union to the Valley, India’s rejection of mediation will seem contradictory Now that the visit of European Union (EU) parliamentarians to Kashmir has ended, it is time to assess what it achieved. Was it a clever gambit that could change the discourse …

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