Dahl reviewed Tony Clifton’s book in 1983?
In 1983, Dahl had reviewed Tony Clifton’s ‘God Cried’, a picture book that described the
pain and suffering caused by the siege of West Beirut by the Israeli army incursion and occupation of Lebanon during the 1982 Lebanon War.
Published in the
Literary Review, Dahl said that “a race of people”, meaning the Jews, had never “switched so rapidly
from victims to barbarous murderers”, and that empathy for the Jewish people after the Holocaust had turned “into hatred and revulsion”.
America was “so utterly dominated by the great Jewish
financial institutions that they dare not defy the Israelis”.
why the poor in India remain poor.According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Social Mobility report, in India, it would take 7 generations for a member of a poor family to achieve average income; in Denmark, it would take just 2 generations to do so.
A key concern leading up to the Budget for 2020-21 was the
falling credibility of Budget numbers. With Covid-19 playing havoc with the economy even before the start of the new financial year, this problem is likely to sustain.
Another key concern in the Budget and this, too, is likely to be a concern in the forthcoming Budget of 2021-22 was the adherence to fiscal rectitude. But the ugly truth about
How have the courts ruled?
A number of rulings by the Supreme Court has settled the position that the Governor cannot refuse the request of a Cabinet that enjoys majority in the House unless it is patently unconstitutional. The latest in the line of rulings is the landmark 2016 Constitution Bench ruling in which the Supreme Court looked into the constitutional crisis in Arunachal Pradesh after the Governor had imposed President’s Rule in the state.
“In ordinary circumstances during the period when the Chief Minister and his council of ministers enjoy the confidence of the majority of the House, the power vested with the Governor under Article 174 to summon, prorogue and dissolve the house(s) must be exercised in consonance with the aid and advice of the chief minister and his council of ministers. In the above situation, he is precluded [from taking] an individual call on the issue at his own will, or in his own discretion,” the verdict said.
While the device used comes with six different size channels 0.3, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 5.0, and 10.0 microns ( 1 micron is a millionth part of a metre) a lot of the dust is so fine that aerosols in that range cannot really be measured. More than 98% of the dust, in fact, is contained in the first two channels (smallest particles) of size 0.3 and 0.5 microns. The study did not consider particles in these channels for the aerosol assessment. “But there’s a reasonable sized range where you can detect the aerosols,” Bonn said.
For validation, the researchers compared their measurements with those from specialised laboratory techniques. Aerosol concentration is often measured using a technique called laser diffraction, in which a laser beam passing through a sample lights up different-sized particles differently. Results from this highly specialised technique and the method used in the study, the researchers found, matched up perfectly.
in Antarctica, the pandemic has reached every continent. And a
mutant virus has emerged in the United Kingdom, which threatens to shut down the world yet again a world just beginning to recover from lockdowns and movement restrictions.
The mutation of viruses
The genetic material or genome of SARS-CoV-2 is a ribonucleic acid (RNA) made up of over 30,000 units (called nucleotides). Among the families of RNA viruses, the coronaviruses have the largest genome. Most other RNA viruses have on average about 10,000 nucleotides. When genomes replicate any genomes, whether DNA or RNA, from the smallest viruses to humans there are random errors (or mutations). While higher organisms have the machinery to correct these errors, viruses and especially the RNA ones, don’t.