Daily Hindu Editorials

💥 Daily Word Bytes - 2  from editorial  - Conscience call - On Rohingya Crisis 💥 conscience call (noun) – an appeal/need/necessity to be made on inner voice, moral sense, sense of right and wrong. Hindu Editorial usage :  Conscience call: On Rohingya crisis humanitarian crisis (noun) – humanitarian disaster; it is defined as a singular event or a series of events that are threatening in terms of health, safety or well being of a community or large group of people. It may be an internal or external conflict and usually occurs throughout a large land area. Hindu Editorial usage :  The scale of the humanitarian crisis faced by Rohingya refugees was highlighted this month when Myanmar claimed it had repatriated a family of five.   repatriate (verb) – send (a person) back to his/her own country. Hindu Editorial usage :  The scale of the humanitarian crisis faced by Rohingya refugees was highlighted this month when Myanmar claimed it had repatriat...

💥 Daily Word Bytes - 1  from editorial  - Mission Impossible - on Simultaneous Elections 💥 leap (noun) – change, transformation, conversion. Hindu Editorial usage :  It is not too much of a leap to surmise that he believes that voters surmise (verb) – guess, conjecture, suspect/speculate. Hindu Editorial usage :  It is not too much of a leap to surmise that he believes that voters stakeholder (noun) – a person with an interest in something. Hindu Editorial usage :  The Law Commission’s move to seek the opinion of the public, political parties, academicians and other stakeholders, set out (phrasal verb) – present, describe, detail/explain. Hindu Editorial usage :  The Commission has released a three-page summary of its draft working paper, setting out the amendments that may be required in the Constitution and electoral laws put together (phrasal verb) – compile, organize, arrange/assemble. Hindu Editorial usage :    It p...

💥The gruesome rape and murder of an eight-year-old Bakherwal girl in Jammu has brought the nomadic tribe under the spotlight. Peerzada Ashiq reports on their itinerant lifestyle and the new challenges confronting them💥 Tahira Begum, all of eight years old, is confident that she is mentally and physically tough enough for the arduous trek across the Pir Panjal mountain range. The passes are yet to open. A sudden snowfall last week brought nine inches of snow and closed down the Mughal Road that connects southern Kashmir’s Shopian district with Pir Panjal’s Poonch district. But that does not deter Begum from the journey she and her family have embarked on. Two tents and a few utensils are all they take with them. Food supplies include corn flour, rice, and herbal salt tea, to be supplemented by whatever the forests provide on the way. “Salt tea keeps us full of energy,” Begum says. Despite the sudden snowfall, this winter has been warmer than the previous ones, prompting Begu...

💥Economic reforms without a robust agricultural growth may not have reduced urban poverty.💥 A case for bringing the issue of poverty to the centre stage of public policy has recently been made by two of India’s prominent economists. In their article, How the data sets stack up  (The Hindu, Editorial page, April 4), C. Rangarajan and S. Mahendra Dev suggest that since the publication of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century global attention may have got somewhat disproportionately focussed on the issue of inequality, crowding out attention to poverty. They argue that poverty is an important indicator of a country’s development on its own. 👉Levelling up This is an important intervention to have made, for we can see from the histories of different parts of the world that the relationship between the movements in poverty and inequality is not unique. In particular, we find from the Indian experience that there are instances in which a public policy focus...

👉The world must increase pressure on Myanmar to do right by the Rohingya The scale of the humanitarian crisis faced by Rohingya refugees was highlighted this month when Myanmar claimed it had repatriated a family of five. About 700,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh from their homes in Myanmar’s Rakhine province since August 2017. Late last year, the two countries had struck an agreement for their return. Bangladesh, however, rejected the claim about the repatriation of the five family members, saying they had not travelled into its territory, so their so-called return did not qualify as repatriation. In fact, in London this week, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina repeated statements by her officials on the repatriation claim, and asked the international community to put more pressure on Myanmar to “take back their own people and ensure their security”. Facing persecution at home in Myanmar, Rohingya have for years been fleeing in the most hazardous of ways, and the UN rec...

✌The proposal for simultaneous elections involves too many practical difficulties The idea of holding simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and the State Assemblies appears to have caught the imagination of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been talking about this for some time now. It is not too much of a leap to surmise that he believes that voters are likely to back the same party in both elections, and that in the absence of a national alternative to his candidature at the Centre, such a voting pattern may help the BJP across States too. The Law Commission’s move to seek the opinion of the public, political parties, academicians and other stakeholders, on the proposal appears to be aimed at giving concrete shape to this political viewpoint. The Commission has released a three-page summary of its draft working paper, setting out the amendments that may be required in the Constitution and electoral laws. It proposes to put...