Daily Hindu Editorials

💥 Daily Word Bytes - 1  from editorial  - Loss of Innocents  💥 lynching (noun) – an act of punishing/killing someone by hanging for claimed offence by the group of people without legal trail. Hindu Editorial usage :     Loss of innocents: on the wave of lynchings in Tamil Nadu  underlying (adjective) – fundamental, basic, essential. Hindu Editorial usage :     It is important to analyse such incidents to understand the underlying anxieties and the drift of trouble-making attempts drift (noun) – essence, meaning, significance. Hindu Editorial usage :     It is important to analyse such incidents to understand the underlying anxieties and the drift of trouble-making attempts brutality (noun) – cruelty, savagery, inhumanity/atrocity. Hindu Editorial usage :     Three recent incidents of lynching in Tamil Nadu, unrelated except for the mindless violence and brutality, are grim reminders of the power a mob can wiel...

💥 Daily Word Bytes - 1  from editorial  - Karnataka Votes   💥 repercussion (noun) – consequence, result, effect/outcome. Hindu Editorial usage :     The fate of this State election has repercussions, nationally landscape (noun) – the distinctive features of a field of activity. Hindu Editorial usage :   No matter who wins, the Karnataka Assembly election is set to redraw the political landscape at the national level prior to the 2019 Lok Sabha poll.   colour (verb) – influence, affect, distort. Hindu Editorial usage :       True, elections are due later this year in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, but the Karnataka verdict could colour these too.   fillip (noun) – stimulus, boost, encouragement. Hindu Editorial usage :     It will also provide a fillip to its unrealistic boast of creating a Congress-mukt Bharat. discount (verb) – ignore, overlook, dismiss. Hindu Editorial usage : ...

👉The U.S.’s exit from the Iran nuclear deal puts India in a spot on many counts👈 American President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), popularly called the Iran nuclear deal, is bound to have serious implications for the international system, and for India. To be sure, the least affected will be the U.S.; European Union countries will be moderately affected due to the business ties with Iran; and the most affected will be countries closer to the region, in particular India. Moreover, for a U.S. administration that has made it a habit of accusing other countries of “undermining the rules-based order”, this action has severely undermined the rules-based global order. 👉Unreasonable act Washington’s decision is unjustified and unreasonable for several reasons. For one, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has consistently maintained that Tehran has complied with the strictures of the JCPOA without fail. Moreover,...

👉The fate of this State election has repercussions, nationally👈 No matter who wins, the Karnataka Assembly election is set to redraw the political landscape at the national level prior to the 2019 Lok Sabha poll. True, elections are due later this year in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, but the Karnataka verdict could colour these too. Winning Karnataka is essential for the BJP’s plans to present itself as a truly pan-Indian party, one with a presence in the south. It will also provide a fillip to its unrealistic boast of creating a Congress-mukt Bharat. For the Congress, Karnataka is critical. It is the only really large State where it is in power and the only one in the south, if we discount Puducherry. It is nowhere close to being a contender in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, and currently is a poor second to the TRS in Telangana and the LDF in Kerala. A loss in Karnataka will be perceived as a serious setback to the Congress’s plans to mount a challenge to the BJP...

👉It is important to analyse such incidents to understand the underlying anxieties and the drift of trouble-making attempts👈 Three recent incidents of lynching in Tamil Nadu, unrelated except for the mindless violence and brutality, are grim reminders of the power a mob can wield. While arrests have been made in all three cases, and warnings issued by law enforcement authorities, the incidents are a cause for pause. On Wednesday night, a mob in Pulicat, north of Chennai, beat up a 45-year-old homeless man. They woke him up as he slept on a bridge, beat him up and then hung him from it. Villagers justified this by saying they thought he was a child kidnapper. Earlier, about 240 km south of Pulicat, a 55-year-old woman, who had gone with her relatives to a village in Tiruvannamalai district in search of a temple, was beaten to death. Her companions were injured. While asking a villager for directions, she had shared chocolates with children playing nearby. Locals say they mistook th...

👉It is uncertain if the goal of electrifying all ‘willing households’ will mean universal access👈 There is now 100% village electrification in India, an important milestone in the country’s development trajectory. At the time of Independence, while the major global economies were completing electrification, India inherited what K. Santhanam, a member of the Constituent Assembly, called a ‘virgin field for electrification’. In response to the regional imbalances in electrical development, led largely by the private sector, the Constituent Assembly set the ground for public sector-led electrification in the country. But despite dedicated public agencies, a planned approach, a sustained political mandate and continued public spending by the Centre and States, India has been considerably slow in reaching the milestone. Another important turnaround came last year when India claimed to be a net surplus and exporter of electricity (a scenario projected to continue for at least a dec...