1. A day before the opening ceremony of the 19th Asian Games in China’s Hangzhou, Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur called off his trip to the country.
The reason? This was done as a mark of protest against China denying three athletes (all of them wushu martial arts players) from Arunachal Pradesh accreditation cards and instead offering stapled visas. As a result of this, the three could not travel for the Games.
Find out more about the controversy here
2. “If a quota is brought in for OBC women in the Lok Sabha and Assemblies, what is to stop OBC men from demanding that they – indeed the backward classes — get reservation too, as provided for the SCs and STs? This could open Pandora’s box.”
In her weekly column, Neerja Chowdhury takes a look at the demand for an OBC quota within the women’s reservation Bill and why it ultimately couldn’t hold the legislation back.
3. For the first time, soon after the killing of Punjabi singer-politician Sidhu Moosewala on May 29 last year, the police of Punjab and Haryana noticed something sinister: their local gangs had acquired a terror edge.
Amid a sharp escalation of tensions between India and Canada this last week over the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Khalistani separatist, we unravel the complex web of characters who make up Punjab’s terror-gangster landscape.
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4. “I don’t find much difference between Pakistan and Canada as far as protecting and patronising anti-India forces is concerned. Pakistan may be doing it more discreetly for fear of international repercussions, Canada is doing it openly in the name of ‘liberal’ values.”
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5. Find out why Shubhra Gupta called Vicky Kaushal’s latest film The Great Indian Family “just the kind of film Bollywood shouldn’t be making”: “If you want to be brave, the writing needs to match… Done well, this could have been such a crucial film for these times when we are being pitted against each other.”
Until next time,
Arushi Bhaskar
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First published on: 23-09-2023 at 08:00 IST