Category: hindu notes

General Studies-02 Hate messages could have communal angle: Kerala police. News: A fake audio clip about a hotel owner in Kozhikode bludgeoning to death a migrant worker had recently spawned a visceral sense of insecurity among other-State labourers in North Kerala. Beyond News: The police pointed out that the bulk of the migrant labour community in Kerala relied exclusively on WhatsApp groups to communicate with each other and their families in Assam, West Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand. Such groups were their sole source of news. They conceded that running to ground the perpetrators of the disinformation campaign might be difficult given the fact that such platforms used encrypted communication. Senior police officers pointed out that a similar set of regional language chauvinists had unleashed a comparable fake news campaign in…

General Studies-01 {Op-Ed}Law, faith, unreason: on eradicating superstition from society Issue: Editorial deals with the need for broad minded social reform additional to laws to eradicate superstition from indian society. The Karnataka Prevention and Eradication of Inhuman Evil Practices and Black Magic Bill, 2017 has been approved by the State Cabinet and is likely to be introduced soon in the Assembly. It is not accurate to characterise this as just an ‘anti-superstition bill’, as what it seeks to prohibit are actions that offend human dignity, result in the exploitation of gullible and vulnerable people or cause harm to them. Bill outlaws: the urulu seve, also known as made snana, in which devotees roll over food leftovers, the practice of walking on fire, branding children, piercing one’s tongue or cheeks. Bill exempts:…