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30 JULY 2019

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Dignity (noun) = The state or quality of being worthy of honouror respect (गौरव)

Reckoning (noun) = The action or process of calculating or estimatingsomething (गणना)

Scramble (adj) = Make one's way quickly or awkwardly up a steepgradient (संघर्ष)

Anxiety (noun) = Worry, concern, apprehension (च तंा)Disenfranchise (verb) = Deprive (someone) of the right to voteGargantuan (adj) = Enormous, massive (ववशाल)Vague (adj) = Of uncertain, indefinite, or unclear character or

meaning (अस्पष्ट)Gordian knot (noun) = An extremely difficult or involved problemPlight (noun) = A dangerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate

situation (ददुषशा)




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Purported (adj) = Appearing or stated to be true, though notnecessarily so; alleged (कचित)

Influx (noun) = An arrival or entry of large numbers of people orthings

Deem (verb) = Regard or consider in a specified way (वव ार करना)Expulsion (noun) = The action of forcing someone to leave an

organization (ननष्कासन)Enduring (adj) = Lasting over a period of time; durable (टटकाऊ)Succour (noun) = Assistance and support in times of hardship and

distress (संकट सहायता)Colossal (adj) = Extremely large or great, stupendousNeoliberal (adj) = Relating to or denoting a modified form of liberalism

tending to favour free-market capitalismRomp (verb) = Proceed without effort to achieve something




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Desperate (adj) = Feeling or showing a hopeless sense that a situation isso bad as to be impossible to deal with, having a great

need or desire for somethingSluggish (adj) = Slow-moving or inactiveReminiscent (adj) = Tending to remind one of something (स्मनृत रखनेवाला)Patriarchal (adj) = Relating to or denoting a system of society or

government controlled by menMainstay (noun) = A person or thing on which something else is based or

depends (आधार)Trajectory (noun) = Course, path, track, routeSyncretism (noun) = The merging of different inflectional varieties

(समन्वयता)Nuanced (adj) = Characterized by subtle shades of meaning or

expression (सकू्ष्म)




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Title: In Assam, basic dignity at stake(There are concerns over how the State government plans to solve the issue of stateless citizens after the NRC exercise)

Context:The Supreme Court has extended the day of reckoning for thecontroversial exercise known as the National Register of Citizens (NRC)in Assam from July 31 to August 31

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➢ With this extension, the Court rejected demands by both the Centraland State governments which, concerned about the nationwidecontroversy about the drive, had said they wanted to re-verify 10% to20% of those on the list.

Identifying Indians➢ The goal of the gargantuan effort of the NRC appears simple: identify

Indians living in Assam and by exclusion pick out the ‘foreigners’ orBangladeshis. In this case, some 40 lakh people were left out of the NRCwhen the draft list was published last July

The plight of the stateless➢ Concerns in Assam have been high over the purported influx post-1971

after the creation of Bangladesh. The effort is to calm local anxieties andalso cater to a political agenda. Yet the question that is often asked butrarely answered is what happens to those individuals (and theirdependents) who are deemed stateless after they find themselves offthe list.






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➢ I have two questions: What becomes of them while applying to tribunalsand courts for relief — all the way to the Supreme Court, a detailed,drawn-out process? How will the government deal with those who aredeclared non-citizens and if Bangladesh refuses to take them, sayingthey are not its nationals, as it has consistently held for decades?

➢ But it is significant, however, that what appears to be emerging is thatuntil such expulsion, alleged foreigners must have access to rights thatwill enable their survival. These would include the right to educationand health. But it would exclude the right to vote or to acquire propertyso that they did not have a role in political processes.

➢ Is this an indication of how the governments, in Assam and the Centre,are thinking of resolving the issue? Could the “suspected” perhaps notbe displaced from their locations but deprived of the right to vote andacquisition of property? As has been mentioned earlier, what also needsto be clarified is the status of lands on which they are living or haveacquired. Will they be deprived of those?






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➢ Final WordsMany of those who are off the list are poor, cannot afford lawyers and may not even know of their right to legal aid. At stake is the basic dignity of the weak, voiceless and vulnerable. The next few months will see how many of them will receive succour and how many will need to carry their bundles of documents from court to court in an unending and perhaps desperate search for hope.






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Q.1

Which among the following states has received a GI tag for its rasagola?a) Odishab) Jharkhandc) Bihard) Chhattisgarh

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Q.2

Which among the following leaders will be seen guest starring in a Man vs Wild episode with host Bear Grylls?a) Donald Trumpb) Narendra Modic) Vladimir Putin d) Justin Trudeau

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Q.3

Former Union Minister Jaipal Reddy passed away on 28th July. How many times was Reddy elected to the Lok Sabha?a) Fourb) Six c) Threed) Five

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Q.4

India has signed an agreement with which among the following countries to enable visa free travel?a) Togob) Benin c) Nigeriad) The Gambia

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Q.5

When is the International Tiger Day observed globally?a) 28th Julyb) 29th Julyc) 30th Julyd) 31st July

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Title: Not a ‘Right’ agenda(The BJP heavily leans Right on cultural matters, but still leans towardsthe Left on economic issues)

Context:The supremacy of the right wing in Indian polity was reaffirmed whenthe Narendra Modi government romped back to power with a colossalmajority. But what is the real nature of the Indian Right? The Left oftenargues that the Right represents religious majoritarianism, combinedwith a neoliberal economic agenda. But is this true?






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➢ India has definitely witnessed a surge in majoritarianism in the last fiveyears. Religious polarisation has increased; instances of lynching andviolence in the name of religion have been on the rise; and brazen displayof religious nationalism has become the new normal. However, theeconomic agenda has been anything but neoliberal.

➢Typically, a right-wing government is one that supports free-marketcapitalism — it has a doctrinal belief in a small government, privatisation,and low tax regime; looks at private (not public) investment and exports askey engines of economic growth; makes availability of land and laboureasier and cheaper; and relies less on welfare doles and more on economicgrowth to help the poor.

Not quite market friendly➢The only engine of economic growth that was fired from 2014 to 2019 was

public or government investment. Domestic consumption, privateinvestment and exports remained sluggish






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➢Despite the government enjoying massive political capital, land and labourlaws were not reformed; neither were public sector undertakings privatised— only profitable PSUs were forced to buy shares of loss-making PSUs tomake the fiscal math look good.

➢A hugely compromised GST with multiple tax slabs was adopted. Economicpopulism through measures like building toilets and providing gas cylinders,reminiscent of a patriarchal state, became the mainstay of governance. Allthis was a far cry from the promise of generating productive jobs in theprivate sector.

➢ if the recently presented general Budget is anything to go by — thetrajectory of the economic approach has not changed. To appear ‘pro-poor’,the government has hiked income tax rates on the ‘super rich’; importtariffs have gone up that makes ‘Make in India’ look like the dreadedimport-substitution industrialisation of the bygone socialist era;






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➢a ‘super-rich tax’ on foreign portfolio investors has spooked the markets;nothing has been said on amending the Land Acquisition Act; and welfarepopulism has got more entrenched with PM-Kisan. All this would havemade a statist government proud!

Final Words➢Thus, though the government heavily leans Right on cultural matters,

when it comes to economics, it still leans towards the Left. It may, forpolitical expediency, adopt policies that suit select business houses.However, this cronyism should not be construed as ‘right-wing’ economicagenda.






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