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Is Uttar Pradesh Finally Catching Up?
India missed the Industrial Revolution. That sentence is almost too simple for the history it tries to contain. Britain industrialised first, followed by parts of Europe, the United States and eventually Japan. India, by contrast, entered the modern age largely as a colonised, agrarian economy. The consequences were enormous. Industrialisation did not merely produce factories.…
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Looking beyond the narratives: the real reason for BJP’s setback in Uttar Pradesh
The Lok Sabha results on June 4, 2024 for the 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh was nothing less than a twisted climax that almost no one saw coming. Almost everyone was surprised – some were ecstatic and some were depressed but everyone was affected. Out of eighty Lok Sabha seats BJP won only 33 seats…
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Yogi’s ordinance on Love Jihad; a necessity or a pure evil?
There has been a lot of noise on the recently enacted ordinance by the Yogi government; the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, popularly known as the anti-Love Jihad Ordinance. Bureaucrats complaining, writing letters to the CM, retired IAS officers complaining about the law. Finally, after a lot of searching I…
