THE HINDU EDITORIAL : JULY 6, 2018
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THE HINDU EDITORIAL : JULY 6, 2018
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a) Passing the buck: on governments response to lynchings
The Central government has finally moved to react to the lynchings reported from across the length and breadth of the country, but its line of action is bafflingly weak. Over the past couple of months, mobs have materialised to beat to kill people they suspect — almost always without basis — of plotting to kidnap children to harvest their organs. Warnings to beware of child kidnappers, sometimes with the rider that they are likely to hail from other parts of India, are mostly circulated on WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned encrypted messaging platform. Since a cluster of such killings in Tamil Nadu in May, deaths have been reported from States as far apart as Assam, Karnataka and Maharashtra. In one recent attack, five people were clobbered to death in Maharashtra’s Dhule’s district on child-lifting rumours; the mob numbering hundreds overpowered the few policemen present. And ironically, among three people lynched in Tripura on a single day, June 28, was a man hired by the State government to spread awareness against precisely such rumours. Now, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has told WhatsApp to take “remedial measures… to prevent proliferation of these fake and at times motivated/sensational messages”. WhatsApp is the communication platform of choice in the age of cheap smartphones. One of the USPs of the platform is that the messages are encrypted in a manner that makes it impossible for them to be read. Given this, it is not clear how such a platform can take measures to limit the spread of motivated or sensational messages. Also, whether such checks would amount to legitimising surveillance and a loss of privacy — a rare commodity in this digital age. Even if it can do so without compromising privacy, the problem is not the medium. Rumour has historically found its way around communication walls, and it can only be effectively blocked through old-fashioned information campaigns and administrative alertness. Rumour’s potency predates mobile phones, even if there is no denying that smartphones, with their ability to instantly transmit text and images, have a tendency, in this era of fake news, to rapidly spread panic and anger. This happens in different ways across the world, but in India the problem has assumed truly distressing proportions. It is well-known that an unrelated video of an act of violence that went viral was responsible for fuelling communal hatred in Muzaffarnagar in 2013. It is puzzling that district administrations and gram panchayats have not been asked to reach out to locals to persuade them against falling for rumours, and to come to the authorities if they have any fears. The messaging needs to be amplified — merely appealing to WhatsApp is hardly the solution.
b) Allies, interrupted: on India-U.S.ties
There are enough signs that relations between India and the United States have suffered, with officials in both capitals now freely conceding that their interests are diverging. From the U.S. side, policy decisions by President Donald Trump to walk out of the multilateral nuclear deal with Iran, and the U.S. Congress’s CAATSA law sanctioning Iran and Russia have set up an inevitable conflict. Mr. Trump’s insistence on tough sanctions against all those continuing to engage with Iran and Russia limits India’s options on energy security and defence procurement. During her visit last week, Nikki Haley, the U.S. envoy to the UN, told India to “revise” its relationship with Iran; this line is expected to be reiterated by U.S. interlocutors in the coming days. Added to this confrontation is the U.S.’s tough policy on trade tariffs, applied to ally and adversary alike, including India. For its part, the Narendra Modi government has taken a policy turn away from four years of a pro-U.S. tilt. Mr. Modi’s speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue last month, in which he invoked the long-lapsed phrase “strategic autonomy”, set at rest any doubt that there is a reset in his foreign policy. Since January, he has personally reached out to the Chinese and Russian Presidents in informal summits, and invited the Iranian President to Delhi. At variance with the U.S. position on limiting engagement with these countries, India promised to raise oil imports from Iran this year, committed to far greater engagement on the Chabahar port project and oilfields in Iran, while negotiating a $5.5 billion deal with Russia for the S-400 Triumf missile systems. These will trigger U.S. sanctions unless the two countries reach a compromise. What is more troubling for bilateral ties is that despite the obvious problems, the political will to address these issues is now considerably diminished. In contrast to his meetings with the Russian and Chinese leaderships, Mr. Modi has had little contact with Mr. Trump since their meeting in Manila last November, which by all accounts did not go well. Now, the postponement of the Indian Foreign and Defence Ministers’ “2+2” dialogue with their U.S. counterparts has denied the governments a chance to gather together the fraying bilateral threads. It is imperative that the dialogue be quickly rescheduled. While the U.S. has traditionally applied pressure on its allies to limit their engagement with countries it considers to be threats to the international order, the manner in which deadlines have been publicly issued by the State Department twice this week will only make its demands more difficult for India to even consider. India must now decide how best to deal with the ultimatums, with U.S. sanctions kicking in by November. The clock is ticking on the relationship.
WORDS/VOCABULARY
1) Baffling(ly)
Meaning: To cause someone to be completely unable to understand or explain something.
Example: She was completely baffled by his strange behaviour.
2) Plotting
Meaning: Secretly make plans to carry out (an illegal or harmful action).
Example: “the two men are serving sentences for plotting a bomb campaign”
Synonyms: Plan, Scheme
3) Harvest
Meaning: To take cells or other body parts from someone for medical use.
Example: The donor organ is harvested at the accident scene and rushed to a hospital.
4) Hail
Meaning: To call someone in order to attract their attention.
Example: Shall we hail a taxi?
5) Cluster
Meaning: A group of similar things or people positioned or occurring closely together.
Example: “clusters of creamy-white flowers”
Synonyms: Collection, Group
6) Clobbered
Meaning: To hit someone or something hard and repeatedly.
Example: If you do that again, I’ll clobber you (one).
7) Lynched
Meaning: (of a group of people) kill (someone) for an alleged offence without a legal trial, especially by hanging.
Example: “her father had been lynched by whites”
Synonyms: Hang, Execute
8) Proliferation
Meaning: Rapid reproduction of a cell, part, or organism.
Example: “we attempted to measure cell proliferation”
Synonyms: Spread, Escalation
Antonyms: Decrease
9) Legitimising
Meaning: Make legitimate.
Example: “voters legitimize the government through the election of public officials”
Synonyms: Validate, Legitimate
Antonyms: Outlaw
10) Potency
Meaning: The power of something to influence or make an impression.
Example: “a myth of enormous potency”
Synonyms: Strength, Force
11) Tendency
Meaning: An inclination towards a particular characteristic or type of behaviour.
Example: “for students, there is a tendency to socialize in the evenings”
Synonyms: Propensity, Proclivity
12) Distressing
Meaning: Causing anxiety, sorrow or pain; upsetting.
Example: “some very distressing news”
13) Fuelling
Meaning: Sustain or inflame (an intense feeling).
Example: “his resignation fuelled speculation of an imminent cabinet reshuffle”
Synonyms: Stimulate, Encourage
Antonyms: Dampen
14) Puzzling
Meaning: Difficult to explain or understand.
Example: It’s a rather puzzling film.
15) Persuade
Meaning: (of a situation or event) provide a sound reason for (someone) to do something.
Example: “the cost of the manor’s restoration persuaded them to take in guests”
Synonyms: Cause, Move
16) Amplified
Meaning: Enlarge upon or add detail to (a story or statement).
Example: “the notes amplify information contained in the statement”
Synonyms: Expand, Develop
Antonyms: Condense
17) Conceding
Meaning: Admit or agree that something is true after first denying or resisting it.
Example: “I had to concede that I’d overreacted”
Synonyms: Accept, Acknowledge
Antonyms: Deny
18) Diverging
Meaning: (of an opinion, theory, or approach) differ.
Example: “the coverage by the columnists diverged from that in the main news stories”
Synonyms: Differ, Disagree
Antonyms: Agree
19) Walk out
Meaning: Depart or leave suddenly or angrily.
Example: “he had walked out in a temper”
Synonyms: Depart, Leave
20) Inevitable
Meaning: Certain to happen; unavoidable.
Example: “war was inevitable”
Synonyms: Unavoidable, Certain
Antonyms: Avoidable, Uncertain
21) Conflict
Meaning: A prolonged armed struggle.
Example: “regional conflicts”
Synonyms: War, Action
Antonyms: Peace
22) Insistence
Meaning: The fact or quality of insisting that something is the case or should be done.
Example: “Alison’s insistence on doing the washing-up straight after the meal”
Synonyms: Demand, Command
23) Procurement
Meaning: The action of obtaining or procuring something.
Example: “financial assistance for the procurement of legal advice”
24) Envoy
Meaning: A messenger or representative, especially one on a diplomatic mission.
Example: “the UN special envoy to Yugoslavia”
Synonyms: Representative, Delegate
25) Reiterated
Meaning: Say something again or a number of times, typically for emphasis or clarity.
Example: “she reiterated that the government would remain steadfast in its support”
Synonyms: Repeat, Restate
26) Interlocutors
Meaning: Someone who is involved in a conversation and who is representing someone else.
Example: Abraham was able to act as interpreter and interlocutor for our group.
27) Confrontation
Meaning: A hostile or argumentative situation or meeting between opposing parties.
Example: “a confrontation with the legislature”
Synonyms: Conflict, Battle
28) Turn away
Meaning: To move your face so you are not looking at something.
Example: When they show an operation on TV, I have to turn away.
29) Tilt
Meaning: An inclination or bias.
Example: “the paper’s tilt towards the United States”
30) Invoked
Meaning: Give rise to; evoke.
Example: “how could she explain how the accident happened without invoking his wrath?”
Synonyms: Elicit, Induce
31) Reached out
Meaning: To try to communicate with a person or a group of people, usually in order to help or involve them.
Example: The new mayor is reaching out to the local community to involve them in his plans for the city.
Synonyms: Communicate
32) Negotiating
Meaning: To have formal discussions with someone in order to reach an agreement with them.
Example: The government has refused to negotiate with the strikers.
33) Trigger
Meaning: Cause (an event or situation) to happen or exist.
Example: “an allergy can be triggered by stress or overwork”
Synonyms: Precipitate, Prompt
34) Diminished
Meaning: Make or become less.
Example: “the new law is expected to diminish the government’s chances”
Synonyms: Decrease, Decline
Antonyms: Increase
35) Postponement
Meaning: The action of postponing something; deferral.
Example: “the postponement of the elections”
Synonyms: Deferral, Deferment
36) Counterparts
Meaning: A person or thing that corresponds to or has the same function as another person or thing in a different place or situation.
Example: “the minister held talks with his French counterpart”
Synonyms: Equivalent, Equal
37) Fraying
Meaning: A fray is also a situation in which people or organizations compete forcefully.
Example: A third buyer has entered the fray.
38) Imperative
Meaning: Of vital importance; crucial.
Example: “immediate action was imperative”
Synonyms: Important, Crucial
Antonyms: Unimportant, Optional
39) Ultimatums
Meaning: A final demand or statement of terms, the rejection of which will result in retaliation or a breakdown in relations.
Example: “their employers issued an ultimatum demanding an immediate return to work”
40) Kicking in
Meaning: To start to have an effect or to happen.
Example: It takes half an hour for the medication to kick in.
Synonyms: Start, Begin
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