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By incorporating case studies, facts and figures that candidly show the relation between questions of equality and issues concerning poverty, hunger, homelessness, unemployment, caste, class, race, gender, exclusion, inequality and host of others within and between the countries. This anthology demonstrates that there is indeed a relationship between theoretical discussions of equality and the central socio-economic, politico- cultural and religious problems facing India and the world at large to-day. John Mohan Razu Indukuri John Mohan Razu is an activist ethicist who Razu Mohan John has written extensively on globalization, global capitalism, theology, ethics, politics, economics, and diverse and An Indian Anthology of Cases problems that the poor and vulnerable confront day-in and day-out nationally and globally. A prolific writer and Vol. 3 columnist who has authored and edited several books and articles. Taught in theological Colleges. Presently serves as Consultant and John Mohan Razu Research Fellow for Academy of Higher Education (ACTS), Bangalore. Globethics.net Ethics of Inclusion and Equality An Indian Anthology of Cases Vol. 3 Ethics of Inclusion and Equality An Indian Anthology of Cases Vol. 3 John Mohan Razu Globethics.net Readers No. 8 Globethics.net Readers Series editor: Prof. Dr. Obiora Ike, Executive Director of Globethics.net in Geneva and Professor of Ethics at the Godfrey Okoye University Enugu/Nigeria. 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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: An Indian Anthology of Cases ................... 9 Coronavirus (COVID-19): An Offshoot of Globalization! ................... 21 De-Coding the Changing Trends: The State Needs an “Imagined Enemy” – A Christian Response ........................................................... 27 SDGs Interrogated: Widening Inequality and Skewed Development Policies, Processes and Practices ........................................................... 43 Future is Now – Sustainable Development: its Pivot ............................ 53 Interlocking Mother Earth, Nature and Women as Sacrosanct and Symbiotic: Impending Challenges .................................................. 59 Poverty Elevation or Poverty Alleviation: Abhijit’s Nobel Rips Open the Ailing Indian Economy .......................................................... 79 Abosolutism: ‘Best’ or ‘Worst’ as a Human Attribute .......................... 83 Blatant Lies, Fake News and Concocted Narratives: Part of their Being ................................................................................. 91 Caste Binary Continues: ‘Superior’ – ‘Inferior’, ‘High’ – ‘Low’, ‘Pure’ – ‘Impure’ ................................................................................... 95 CAB—Penultimate to Ultimate: Hindu Rashtra in the Making! ........... 99 Cast on the Wheels: Progressive or Regressive ................................... 103 Caste Reins: ‘Casteist Mind-Set’ a Regressive DNA for ‘New India’ .................................................................................... 107 CAA Ripped Open the Fallacy and Fantasy of the BJP Government . 111 Is Democracy Derailed or Way-Laid? ................................................. 117 Count on Democracy ........................................................................... 119 New Delhi vs. J&K: India’s Federalism Under Test ........................... 121 Do Not Take Refuge Under the Guise ‘Internal Matter’ .................... 125 Church vs. Metro: What’s it All About? ............................................. 129 Discrimination: A Scourge: India is Plagued with It ........................... 131 Does Religion have a Place in a Modernising and Secularising World? ..................................................................... 135 Duplicity in Higher Education ............................................................ 139 Ambedkar’s Ideas of Social Justice Still Haunt Country’s Constitutional Apparatus – How Much have we achieved? ................ 161 Mandir-Masjid Tussle: Leveraging Win-Win or Win-Lose! ............... 165 The Value of Critical Knowledge, Ethics and Education – a Book Review ................................................................................. 171 Neo Nationalism and Crony Capitalism Metaphoric Octopus Permeated into Societal Segments ...................................................... 179 Do Not Question, If Dared, Prepared to Face the Wrath ..................... 181 Caste as the Tool of Internal and External Colonization of India: Affirmative and Liberative Dalit Praxis .............................................. 185 Position of the ‘Untouchables’ in Pax Britannica ............................... 191 Casteist, Not Casteist and Anti-Casteist: Ripping Inherent Contradictions and Unfolding New Horizons ..................................... 211 Church: Distancing Why and for What? ............................................. 223 Beyond 2019: Modi 02 Will “Define India” ....................................... 229 God Commodified and Marketized in a Globalized World of Religion................................................................................ 249 In Conversation with Professor Enrique Dussel .................................. 257 Corporate Capitalism in Crisis: An Analysis ...................................... 267 De-Coding Human Trafficking in Post-De-Globalizing World: Through the Prism of Christianity ....................................................... 287 Shrinking Globalization and Rising Nationalism ................................ 313 De-Coding Ambedkkar’s Notions on Authentic Humanity Rooted in Egalatarian Revolution ....................................................... 331 Essentialising Human Rights and Human Dignity in the Wake of Religious Fundamentalism and Intolerance in India ........................... 355 Media Turns Predatory – Privacy, Profit and Control: Proposing a Theology of Risk Taking ................................................. 377 Watch Out: Casteism on Wheels a Penal Offence .............................. 397 Incredible India: ‘Purified’ Cow Dung Cakes ..................................... 401 Is it Right to Call the Political Class of India as ‘Snollygoster’? ........ 403 Gandhi at 150: His Relevance Today .................................................. 407 Globalisation an Ideology in Disguise and a Theology to Legitimize the Global Inequality ..................................................... 411 Glocal Ethics for Radical Soceital Change .......................................... 429 God and Idol Factors: Contours of Perceptions ................................... 435 MHA Vs. NGOs: Transparency or Crackdown ................................... 439 Health System in India in Shambles: Bihar a Case in Point ................ 445 Hoardings be Regulated and Banners be Banned ................................ 449 If Religion Fails to Liberate Then Get Rid of Religion ....................... 455 It’s Islamophobic and Mysogynistic: Premier Institutions Infested with Prejudices