<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed><author name="Badri Narayan"><item><title>Time to evaluate Sangh amid changing times as it completes 100 yrs next year</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-scaled.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Rastriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (RSS) popularly called Sangh is going to complete 100 years in 2025. This will create a moment in which Sangh will be evaluated by its own cadres, leaders and sympathisers of its works, functioning, success and failures...</excerpt></item><item><title>Parties that may not respond public’s desire stand to lose credibility</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Whereever I visited in the west, Africa and other places of the world, I usually heard that Hindus are peaceful, soft and adjusting community. During my research and field work in the Netherlands, I heard from the mouth of many Dutch people that- ...</excerpt></item><item><title>India needs quality human workforce as facilitators of VIKSIT BHARAT</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The education is the crucial element of democracy. It empowers people for good and civilised life. It also empowers them for their conscious participation in democracy. Such participation of Indian people in democracy ensure their hissedari in dem...</excerpt></item><item><title>POLITICAL POSITIONING OF DALITS WILL PLAY KEY ROLE IN MAHA POLLS</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/political-positioning-of-dalits-will-play-key-role-in-maha-polls/</link><pubDate>November 2, 2024, 2:54 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/snip-300x235.png</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>In Maharashtra, Marathas is the largest community containing 28 per cent of the state population. The OBCs as categories contains castes like-Kunbis (seven per cent), Malis (seven per cent), Vanjaris (six per cent) with Muslim OBCs comprising 38 p...</excerpt></item><item><title>Tight contest in Jharkhand</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>In Jharkhand, the heat for state assembly election -2024 is going on. The main parties who are in the fray have declared their candidates. It is going to be a tough contest between two alliances-National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and I.N.D.I.A. bl...</excerpt></item><item><title>ANRF aims to bridge the gap between research and development</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/anrf-aims-to-bridge-the-gap-between-research-and-development/</link><pubDate>September 25, 2024, 4:48 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/h-300x169.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>These social, developmental and human contexts need to be properly documented, archived and analysed.  
It is believed that the ‘Anusandhan-NRF initiatives’ may also get proper attention in social science research in India.</excerpt></item><item><title>WIll BSP’s reservation plank pay off?</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The by-election of 10 assembly seats in UP may be another test case of new strategy of BSP politics. The result of 2024 parliamentary election may be read in multiple ways. First of all, it is being read as sign and indication of a’ new churning’ ...</excerpt></item><item><title>How SC Order On Sub-Classification Of Quota Reshaping Politics</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Around the decade of 80s, in academics, while understanding political parties in India, we used to ask the question about- ‘class base of political parties’. Now a days we are habitual to raise question- about ‘caste base of political parties’ in ...</excerpt></item><item><title>Why horrors of Emergency need to be told and retold</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>As further culmination of 2024 Parliamentary election, new Parliament is formed recently. The newly elected members took oath with protem speaker and elected new president(sabhapati) of Lok Sabha. The newly elected president Om Birala in his lectu...</excerpt></item><item><title>Perception Vs Reality</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi is contesting the parliamentary election-2024 for its third term as party in power. BJP is contesting this election in the midst of various contradictions. The main contradictio...</excerpt></item><item><title>Why political parties that rely on caste mobilisation fail</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Changing public aspirations and developmental desire of the people are key factors There is a dominant view among public, politicians, academicians and media that Indian election is all about managing the caste. This political management of caste ...</excerpt></item><item><title>Is this election ‘Modi-image centric’?</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>We need to see whether in upcoming phases it may return towards developmental and futuristic debates of Indian democracy or may progress towards conventional line of identity politics. I have started saying and writing that this parliamentary elec...</excerpt></item><item><title>Why BJP’s Sankalp Patra scores over Cong’s Nyay Patra</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The elections are lifeline for democracy in India and also other parts of the world. The elections provide us opportunities to create public discourse on vision and plans for the development of nation and making future India. The battle for making...</excerpt></item><item><title>Election perceived differently by different sections in society</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The shift of political subjectivity of the marginalized social groups in rural sites of North India is towards moving from caste identity-based politics to the rise of developmental aspirations. The democratic time never becomes homogeneous. It’s ...</excerpt></item><item><title>Relevance of small political parties</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Democracy evolves and deepens when people get multiple political choices in electoral politics. As we know, the lifeline of democracy is elections which elect the government. The democratically elected government ensures democratic distribution of...</excerpt></item><item><title>General election 2024:  Saffron party is ahead of its rivals</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The dates of Parliamentary election announced have been announced by the Election Commission. This Parliamentary election will be held in seven phases which will begin on April 19 and continue till June 1. The counting will take place on June 4 fr...</excerpt></item><item><title>Political choice for Muslims is diverse</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>A section of Muslim voters is getting mobilised in favour of BJP too The parliamentary election-2024 is going to be held soon. Like other elections, various speculation are doing the rounds as to who Muslims are going to vote for. There is a commo...</excerpt></item><item><title>LS polls will be a War of Images</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Opposition will have to contest mega image of PM Modi who is perceived as a yugpurush. It is almost clear now, that the coming parliamentary election-2024 is going to be a direct contest between Bhartiya Janaa Party (BJP) led National Democratic A...</excerpt></item><item><title>PM Modi’s Image as ‘Yug Purusha’</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Youths in small district towns of provincial India consume images of political icons in certain typology. This is’ image-time’. The image-time means we are leaving in the time of images. The images come to us through various kinds of orality, lear...</excerpt></item><item><title>Neo-Liberal time Literature has Reinvented another form of Expression</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>LitFests are emerging not only as a space of discussion and discourse but also as literary carnivals. Neo- liberal economy introduced in the decade of 90s brought a drastic change in socio-cultural and political textures of India. However, it was ...</excerpt></item><item><title>Dissecting the new narrative of hope in Yogi’s Uttar Pradesh</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Democracy produces an interesting contradiction. It generates hope and despair together. The feeling of despair due to various reasons produces discontent and also dissent. The hope which democracy generates sometimes embraces dissent and dilute i...</excerpt></item><item><title>A developmental model based on cultural economy</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Narendra Modi recently visited Ayodhya. He inaugurated there- newly built Valmiki Airport and many infrastructural projects. He visited and supervised the works which are in progress in transforming Ayodhya and making it comfortable ad attractive ...</excerpt></item><item><title>BJP triumphs in North India, Congress holds southern ground</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>In the recently held state assembly elections across five states, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) achieved significant victories in three North Indian Hindi-speaking states – Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan. Conversely, the Congress Pa...</excerpt></item><item><title>Impressive Comeback: BJP dominates MP, Raj, Chhattisgarh elections with landslide victory</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The election results of five Indian states have been announced, revealing a significant victory for the Bhartiya Janata Party in Madhya Pradesh, a surprising gain in Chhattisgarh, and an impressive comeback in Rajasthan. Meanwhile, the Congress ga...</excerpt></item><item><title>Bihar caste survey releases at politically extremely sensitive time</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The report of Bihar caste survey (BCS)released at politically extremely sensitive time. It is the time when the elections of the state assemblies of five states-Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Telangana and Mizoram are so close. The parli...</excerpt></item><item><title>Dalit vote dynamics: Crucial role in ongoing state elections</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Dalits reside in large numbers in every state of India, making their significance pronounced in elections and serving as a central discourse in Indian democracy. It is true that due to the dominance of the OBC reservation issue in the politico-pub...</excerpt></item><item><title>Soft Hindutva emerges as dominant trend amid election frenzy in five states</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The campaigns for state assembly elections in five states Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Telangana, and Mizoram are fully underway. The leaders of various political parties are to innovatively invent their political narratives for mobili...</excerpt></item><item><title>OBC caste politics resurgence: Mandal 2 or fading influence?</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>One can easily observe that strategists of electoral politics, working with opposition parties and a section of the media, appear highly optimistic about the electoral gains resulting from the revival of OBC caste politics through recent caste cen...</excerpt></item><item><title>Contesting Narratives of Nationalism and the developmental empowerment equation</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>What I observe that ongoing debate on Nation and Nationalism are also going to turn as electoral capital in coming 2024 election in one form or another forms. In fact, the various political groups have produced their own version of Nationalism. Th...</excerpt></item><item><title>Leaders put forth their political narratives</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-evaluate-sangh-amid-changing-times-as-it-completes-100-yrs-next-year/</link><pubDate>December 23, 2024, 2:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rss-300x189.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The assembly election in Madhya Pradesh, Chhatis garh and Rajasthan are going to be held soon. The various political parties have started their election campaign in their own ways. The rallies of the star leaders of political parties have started....</excerpt></item></author></feed>