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For perhaps the first time, the scientific community is poised to take the protest route to get their voices heard. An appeal for ‘India March for Science’, scheduled on August 9, [2017] has already drawn more than 40 researchers, journalists and activists.

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom’ - Nehru’s words at Indian independence. Hence, ‘Midnight’s Children’, a novel about those born at that time, None, though, of the fictional variety was as deeply imbued with Jawaharlal Nehru’s noble vision as Nirupam Sen, born that year, 1947, in Allahabad on 15th February, and dying in New Delhi, on 1st July, 70 years on. Throughout his career, he served his country and, as Nehru would have had it, the human community, with exceptional courage and distinction.

Bhiku Daji Bhilare (Born on November 26, 1919) who died at the age of 98 years rather proved to be an exception. Not only thousands of people from all walks of life and various political streams participated in his cremation, the mainstream media also reported about it. It may be mainly because of this member of the Rashtra Seva Dal in his youth, who was active in the "parallel government" movement in Satara district run by revolutionary Nana Patil and others, had mainly devoted himself to social-political service, after representing Jawali assembly constituency in the state legislature for 18 years.

Madhya Pradesh is by no means the only state where the government promotes astrology education. In New Delhi, there is the Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, a deemed university, under the ministry of human resources development. It offers a variety of courses on astrology, including “medical astrology” besides its regular fare. There are others.

Supreme Court order saying the law on cruelty against women is misused is based on erroneous conclusions drawn from NCRB figures that don’t reveal the whole truth. It needs to be revisited.