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Vasudaiva Kutumbakam,* they do proclaim.
But ‘foreign faiths’ are in the way they claim.

draft of the Industrial Relations (Central) Recognition of Negotiating Union or Negotiating Council and Adjudication of disputes of Trade Unions Rules 2021

As a fresh returnee to India, this distinguished alumni from IIT Bombay was the youngest signatory to the 1981 statement on “scientific temper” — it derived from a world view that linked the role of science to civil and human rights. Baptised in the democratic protests against the Vietnam war in the US, he brought his street-fighting passion to his frontline involvement in the pursuit of justice and accountability in India

Lack of scientific temper – indeed, a definite anti-science attitude — might sound funny, even innocuous. But this has disastrous consequences, some of which we are witnessing currently.

Mass protests against the proliferation of CRPF camps have been happening all over Bastar during the last two years, without attracting much media coverage. It is only because of the death of three protestors in police firing on 17 May 2021 that the Silger protest came to light.