Drifting Away; Gagging Academic; Golden Generation
Opinion Watch
Drifting Away
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s informal meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of BRICS is the subject of several Editorials in dailies, with common theme that bilateral ties are drifting away as Beijing sticks to its assertion that relations be not linked to just the border issue. Dailies such as The Tribune, The Asian Age and others have sought to sift the stalemate in the negotiations, hoping that Xi’s likely visit to New Delhi for G20 Leaders’ Summit may offer better opportunity to defuse tension across the line of actual control (LAC).
History acts as lamppost, and ignoring messages, shining brightly, comes at the perils of current and future generations. China will be dismissive of India’s claims on border by taking refuse in historical legacy, and New Delhi as a habit errs by not demonstrating the cost to Chinese aggression by drying the bilateral trade that bloats with over $113 billion in Beijing’s favour.
Gagging Academic
Ashoka University cracked down against own Assistant Professor Sabyasachi Das for his ‘Backsliding Democracy’ paper before the intelligence sleuths knocked the doors on the campus, and Deccan Herald in a sharp Editorial has opined that the action of the varsity amounted to silencing academic reaching “inconvenient conclusions”. Bengaluru-based daily also reasoned that a research paper is for the peers to sift and question, noting that “Ashoka University has done a disservice to itself and cause of academic”.
Ashoka University is a campus of students from India’s wealthiest families, who sent their wards for foreign varsity like education. The university has acted true to its genuine character of an education shop. Golden Generation
On Praggnandhaa’s feat of coming up runner up in the Chess World Cup 2023, The Asian Age in its Editorial has said that he’s a king in the making, while also stating that he belongs to ‘golden generation’ of sportspersons in India. The New Delhi-based daily underlined that half of the slots in the quarterfinals were bagged by the Indian chess players. It also quoted Magnus Carlsen that his toughest match was against D. Gukesh, India’s No. 1, in the quarters in the tournament.
The loud message is the emergence of the sportspersons of eminence from the sports academies run by former sporting icons, as well as those not widely known in football and other sports. This message should be read correctly by Centre and state government, and they may consider adjusting sports policies accordingly by freeing federations from netas and babus.
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