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Members of UK Parliament urge PM Modi to protect endangered Asian elephants

British MP Henry Smith, along with more than 85 other parliament members, including those from the House of Lords and House Commons, and renowned celebrities, are urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take all possible steps to protect endangered Asian elephants and control man-animal conflict in India.

Dangers of pigeon-holing in positive discrimination

While the US Supreme Court ruling striking down race-conscious admission rules based on a pair of cases challenging “affirmative action” at Harvard and the University of North Carolina has predictably stirred up a hornet’s nest globally, a close look at the observations made by the several judges throws up profound insights into several aspects of how diversity should be treated.

Long yell

Even those who have known that everything the atmospherics are meant to achieve at cricket’s headquarters are part of what RC RobertsonGlasgow used to call “the air of holy pomp” would have been shocked when Long Room members verbally as well as physically clashed with Australian players after the dismissal of Jonny Bairstow. It was a scandal.

Nuancing Immigration

‘Othering‘ of immigrants with selective social-media forwards makes for convincing politics, but not for secure and prosperous communities. France is an example of how immigrants can make the French flag fly high, as well as of the need to repose collateral responsibility onto immigrants to respect and uphold the ways of the adopted land. Rioting and violence cannot be justified, as one wrong cannot justify another. Sadly, both ‘natives‘ and immigrants have failed in equal measure