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1st December 2023
QUIZ - 1st December 2023
5 Questions
5 Minutes
Editorials
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On World AIDS Day, the Mumbai's marginalized sex workers’ highlighted their struggles, public health insights, and the call for dignity.
World AIDS Day and the Unseen Struggles:
- Invisible Lives: Mumbai's marginalized, including sex workers and trans individuals, face a shadowy existence amid societal neglect.
- Dignity amid Struggle: Despite challenges, these individuals exhibit resilience, wisdom, and tenacity, often overlooked by society.
- Personal Connection: The author highlights personal encounters, emphasizing the richness of their stories and the fight for survival.
Lessons from the Margins in Public Health
- Grassroots Engagement: Grassroots involvement crucial for effective public health; top-down approaches fail without community participation.
- Holistic Solutions: Complex lives demand holistic approaches; health strategies must address social, economic, and cultural dimensions.
- Communication Challenges: Insufficient, culturally sensitive, and engaging health information leads to misinformation; poor and vulnerable populations care deeply about well-being.
Dignity and Equity in Public Health
- Vulnerable First: Prioritize vulnerable communities in health strategies; care access, inferior treatment, and discrimination persist without focus.
- Activism for Change: Activism essential for equitable care; marginalization persists, requiring collective action and public trust-building.
- Dignity Matters: Dignity and equity are pillars in public health; trust, respect, and ownership must guide health strategies.
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The assessments of changing global order emphasizes China's rise, Russia's diversification, and India's strategic challenges and balancing acts.
Global Order Dynamics
- Asymmetric Bipolarity:S. pre-eminent; China's rapid rise reshaping the global power structure.
- People's Power Era: 21st-century defined by connectivity, interdependence, and potential bipolar impulses.
- Russia's Nuanced Role: Russia-China ties explored, with emphasis on Russia's inclination towards diversification, particularly with India.
India's Complex Relations
- Strategic Diversification: Russia aims to reduce dependence on China through key corridors, strengthening ties with India.
- Interdependence Complexities: India's relations with the U.S. and China are complex, involving geopolitical considerations.
- No Rigid Bipolarity: Despite growing competition, interdependence limits the possibility of a rigid bipolar global system.
India's Approach and Global Realities
- India's Strategic Challenges: Recognizing long-term competition with China; addressing border tensions and power asymmetry.
- Balancing Act: India's need for internal and external balancing; managing relations with the U.S. to perpetuate China's two-front dilemma.
- Addressing Root Causes: Reflecting on global violence, Sharma highlights the influence of the military-industrial complex.
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Editorials
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The ECI must act independently as the arbiter of election code breaches.
Challenges in Enforcing the Model Code of Conduct (MCC)
- Well-Meaning but Difficult: Model Code of Conduct (MCC) faces challenges in enforcement, relying on party cooperation and Election Commission vigilance.
- Intent vs. Reality: Some MCC clauses are declarations of intent, like ensuring the "purity of the election process."
- Recent ECI Actions: Election Commission acts against various leaders, withdrawing permission for Telangana's Rythu Bandhu scheme, revealing a mixed record.
Concerns:
- Selective Addressing: ECI takes action against certain leaders, but overlooks Congress complaints against Modi and Amit Shah.
- Unaddressed Complaints: ECI's silence on Congress's complaint about the Enforcement Directorate's interference in Chhattisgarh elections.
- Doubts on Fairness: Doubts arise on ECI's capacity for fair and objective actions, especially amid potential government moves to control appointments.
Threats to Electoral Independence:
- Legislative Supremacy Concerns: Government's proposal to legislate executive supremacy in ECI appointments raises worries about impartiality.
- Ruling Party Control: Proposed scheme could let the ruling party solely control the ECI composition, posing a threat to fair elections.
- Impact on Democracy: Supremacy move raises concerns about maintaining the integrity of free and fair elections in India.
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