The system is being gamed by crony capitalists; what lies behind the resistance to India’s highest dam; Hindutva politics in command at DU; and more

[View this email in your browser]( Top Story [Four Years On, It is Clear that Modi’s Foreign Policy is Merely a Blip in India’s Timeline]( Arun Mohan Sukumar [When Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed power in 2014, therefore, he faced three choices: the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) could reject the new turn in Indian foreign policy; it could stay the course the Congress had charted; or take it to altogether new levels through an alliance-like relationship with the US. Reversing the course of previous decades was never a real option, since the Manmohan Singh government’s foreign policy itself had linkages to those of the Narasimha Rao and Vajpayee regimes. Modi’s personal ambition instead required grander optics and a scheme that could not wait for the fruits of patient diplomacy.]( [Mr Prime Minister, Contrary to Your Claims, the System is Still Being Gamed by Crony Capitalists]( M.K. Venu [The same set of businessmen, big and small, who were gaming the system earlier continue to thrive under the Modi regime.]( [With ‘One Nation, One Election’, the Bugle for a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ Has Been Publicly Sounded]( Amitabha Pande [In a federal democracy, the administrative convenience of the Union or the Election Commission cannot dictate the political processes of a state.]( [How Did an All-Female Species Survive Sans Sexual Reproduction for Millennia?]( Rashmi Bhat [By all means, the Amazon molly should have gone extinct by now. Except it has not.]( [What Lies Behind the Resistance to India’s Highest Dam?]( Manshi Asher [Not only has the government failed to do a cost-benefit analysis of the Pancheshwar Dam in Uttarakhand, it is also not addressing the growing concerns of locals.]( [How Many Billionaires Will Get Away While India’s ‘Chowkidar’ Looks On?]( Swati Chaturvedi [Under Narendra Modi’s rule, a string of well-connected businessmen have been able to escape legal consequences.]( [Hindutva Politics in Command at DU, Complaints Mount of Teacher Dis(Orientation)]( The Wire Staff [With resource persons drawn from various front organisations of the RSS, the ‘training programme’ has become a vehicle to indoctrinate teachers who had assembled from around the country.]( [An Unpleasant Truth Underlies Gender Discrimination in India]( Anoop Sadanandan [The plight of women in the country has its roots in Hindu traditions, and a Reformation may be needed to fix it.]( Copyright © 2018 The Wire, All rights reserved. You're getting this email because you recently subscribed to receive email digests from The Wire via our website. Our mailing address is: The Wire 13, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg Gole MarketNew Delhi 110001 India [Add us to your address book](//thewire.us11.list-manage.com/vcard?u=6b988b13445248b1268a308f2&id=4808224841) Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](