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India’s Mars mission is overwhelmingly irrelevant to space science and won’t advance the frontiers of knowledge. Worse, the mission has nasty military implications. It will draw India into dangerous missile race and space rivalry with China.

Taxi drivers block a main road with their vehicles, during a protest near the parliament in Islamabad, Pakistan. Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP
(6 November 2013, The Guardian)

We strongly condemn the illegal, unconstitutional and essentially anti-women snooping conducted by the Gujarat government as revealed in the recent media expose’. We collectively demand that a CBI inquiry should be initiated in the case at the earliest as it concerns the future of our democracy and polity. The direct involvement of the opposition party’s prime ministerial candidate in such brazen and fundamental violation of democratic rights and the party’s shameless defence is totally unacceptable.

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What we in Meghalaya forget very easily is that even the Hill State Movement was not an exclusive Movement by the three tribes. It was a shared history because the All Party Hill Leaders’ Conference (APHLC) under which banner the Movement was launched, also included non-tribals as members. The argument at the time was that genuine non-tribals whose antecedents date back to about three generations should be given a share of the fruits that accrue from a separate state. Alas! Today we neither respect history nor want to revisit it. And this is a dangerous precedence because history tends to repeat itself for those who refuse to learn from it