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Nov 29, 2024 | 
mainstreamweekly.net | vijay kumar
On 26th November,2024, The Indian Constitution turned 75 – a great, enviable and exceptional achievement – in light of the fact that average life-span of the Constitution is 17 years, as per the compilation done by three American Scholars: Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg and James Milton. In newly independent countries in Asia after the Second World War, Constitution has survived only in three countries : India, Taiwan and South Korea.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com | Raju Kumar |vijay kumar
Case presentationA 4-month-old male infant of Tamang ethnicity was referred to the pediatric ward at our center. The child presented with fever, noisy breathing, chest retraction, and cough for 4 days along with lethargy and poor feeding since the first week of life. He also had developmental delays in the form of feeble neck holding and absent social smile (Fig. 1).
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
mainstreamweekly.net | vijay kumar
The 50th Chief Justice of India, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, has demitted the office on controversial notes. Any objective and fair assessment of his tenure entails, perforce, to divide his term preceding his appointment as Chief Justice or after that. By the same token, the judgments rendered by him, and their scrutiny could be classified in accordance with the subject matters.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
mainstreamweekly.net | vijay kumar
So, Donald Trump has returned to the White House as the 47th President of the United States of America. He is the only second American, who has won two non-consecutive terms. In the end, the result was not as close as it was predicted. Trump registered an emphatic win by securing a majority in the Electoral College as well as in popular votes.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
mainstreamweekly.net | vijay kumar
The November 5 US Presidential Election is heading for a breathtaking photo finish. As latest opinion poll conducted by the New York Times shows, both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are poised neck to neck. The US Presidential election is regulated by peculiar regulations. The popular votes secured by candidates are not decisive; what clinches the outcome is majority secured in the Electoral College.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
mainstreamweekly.net | vijay kumar
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, along with Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela (latter two being inspired by the former), were the three greatest moral personalities of the last century. The ethical resonance radiated through their lived lives has hardly any parallel, and there is no one at the present turbulent time, who comes anywhere near them. The famous quote of American poet and philosopher, Walt Whitman, that “I am large and contain multitude of contradictions” is more apt for Gandhi.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
mainstreamweekly.net | vijay kumar
The decision of the Union Cabinet to implement One Nation One Election (ONOE) has grave implications for the Indian democracy, particularly its federal structure – not in its form, but in its spirit. Prima Minister, Narendra Modi, has shown exceptional dedication and commitment to those promises which have the potential to communalise the social structure and accentuate the centralizing and authoritarian tendencies.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
mainstreamweekly.net | vijay kumar
The circulation of a viral video showing Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, performing Ganpati Puja in the company of Chief Justice, Chandrachud, and his wife at the latter’s residence has disturbing implications for the independence of the judiciary and the insulated image of judges manning it. The Ganpati festival is one of the most popular and pious festivals in Maharashtra.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
mainstreamweekly.net | vijay kumar
The Old Adage: “When America sneezes, the world catches cold” may have worn out, but it remains the most powerful country in the world. The coming US Presidential Election in November is taking place in the most cataclysmic time, marked by a complete collapse of rule-based international order and international law, exacerbated by Putin and Netanyahu’s attack on Ukraine and Gaza respectively.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
mainstreamweekly.net | vijay kumar
BOOK REVIEWThe Colonial Constituionby Arghya SenguptaJuggernautPage 285Price Inr 599/-The colonial constitution by Arghya Sengupta has come at a time when talks for the new Constitution are being floated in certain quarters, especially by those perceived to be close to the present ruling dispensation. The Constitution of India was the outcome of intense deliberations by the framers of the Constituent Assembly, on the one hand, and the product of bricolage, on the other.
