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Oldest friends
- Number of agreements 1. $5.43 billion S-400 Triumf missile system deal 2. a space cooperation arrangement to put an Indian in space 3. an action plan for a new nuclear plant
- Despite U.S. warnings: strategic autonomy
- Bilateral trade: below $10 billion
- The situation can be much more complex when friends expect you to choose between them. 22-hour visit
Misogyny in a modern idiom
- Where curriculum designers fear to tread, film directors take relaxed, bold strides.
- Sometimes in news: Killing of women on the suspicion that they are practising witchcraft
- Stree: It deals with witchcraft in a comic mode without trivialising it. It frames witchcraft in a modern idiom, using it to throw light on gender disparity and injustice.
- The core theme of Stree is the fear of women.
- When secretly held fear is mixed with desire, it results in loathing.
- Fantasy of sexual conquest by brute force is often a logical product of this mixture of emotions.
- A sick ethos pervades many parts of India: Everydayness of rape.
- The idea of noticing an opportunity to rape together reflects an awful reality.
- sense of conquest
- Educational institutions usually deal with gender issues in a textbook mode, preaching equality and mythologising modernity.
- Despite the growth of education, violence against women is increasing.
- Education has made little impact on male aggression and self-righteousness.
Shifting the burden of shame
- 2018 Peace prize: Nadia Murad & Denis Mukwege
- Dr. Mukwege: patients age ranges from 2-70.
- He has been an outspoken activist calling for an end to using women’s bodies as weapons in war.
- The Last Girl: she describes abject cruelty
- Ms. Murad was moved from house to house, city to city, as she was bought and sold several times, her value decreasing with each transaction.
- At one point, she was even held in a room at a check point, available to any IS fighter who happened to pass by.
- However, returning women weren’t usually received very well.
- Lift the cloak of shame from the bodies of the survivors and lay it instead on the shoulders of the perpetrators.
- But in hearing her, believing her, and now in honouring her, the message that goes to the survivors of sexual violence everywhere is certainly that while they have to deal with the burden of their memory, they can at least shed the weight of its shame.
Too easily offended
- Defence analyst Abhijit Iyer-Mitra controversy
- While it is entirely possible that his remarks offended some people, it is laughable to assume his intent was to sow discord or create religious enmity.
- His petition for regular bail has now been rejected by the Supreme Court.
- Provisions are misused in a routine manner.
- Such an attitude will only make for an intolerant society consisting of easily offended individuals.
Important News
- Stalemate in Kerala on Sabarimala issue
- Chief priest’s family, Pandalam palace reject CM’s talks offer
- Indian school in Jeddah told to vacate
- Hundreds of students and alumni in Saudi Arabia have taken to the Internet to appeal to External Affairs Sushma Swaraj to ensure that the boys section of the prestigious International Indian School in Jeddah (IISJ) is not shut down permanently.
- It is the only school offering the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) curriculum.
- For Kumbh, Ganga gets a Swachh ‘army’
- Task Force of ex-servicemen will help in crowd management, keep river clean
- Centre begins work to widen pension cover
- The Union government launched an evaluation this week as part of measures to double the number of people covered by its pension scheme from the current 3.09 crore to more than six crore.
- Now, with an upcoming hearing in the Supreme Court on a petition demanding universal pension coverage and higher allocation, the government hopes its study will throw up some concrete proposals, in time for the next budget.
- India best for investments: PM
- Addressing top business leaders and industrial houses at “Destination Uttarakhand: Investors Summit 2018”, Mr. Modi said the country was passing through an era of unprecedented social and economic changes, and expressed confidence that in the coming decades, India would become the engine of world economic growth.
- Naxalism will be wiped out in 3 years: Rajnath
- Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said the menace of Left-wing extremism (LWE) would be wiped out from the country in about three years.
- ‘Kim will meet Trump again’
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