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Editorial : A moving menace: on mob violence

Mob violence in the name of cow protection is shredding civic order
The violence(हिंसा) in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district is yet another notice of the toll being taken on civic order on account of the failure to crack down on vigilant(सजग/ सुरक्षा व्यवस्थापक ) e mobs(भीड़/उपद्रवी ). Two persons, including a police inspector, lost their lives to bullets fired in Syana when villagers gathered(इकट्ठा) outside a police post in protests over a

rumour that cow carcasses(गाय शव) had been found in the vicinity(आस-पास/पड़ोस). In a curious(जिज्ञासु/उत्सुक)coincidence(संयोग), Monday’s violence touches back to the hate crime that marked the beginning(शुरुआत) of this long spell of vigilante violence over ‘cow protection(गाय संरक्षण)’ across north India. Subodh Kumar Singh, the inspector killed in Bulandshahr, had been the first investigating(जांच करना) officer when Mohammed Akhlaq was lynched near Dadri, also in western U.P., on September 28, 2015 on a rumor(अफवाह) that he had beef in his possession(क़ब्ज़ा/अधिकार). Then as now, an equivalence(समानक/अनुरूप ) was sought to be made between the crime of mob violence and murder on the one hand, and the rumoured cow slaughter on the other. Alongside those charged with the violence, who include(शामिल) members of the Bajrang Dal, an FIR has been filed against seven Muslims for alleged(कथित) cow slaughter. Investigations(जांच) should reveal(पता चलता है/प्रकट करना) whether the mob at the police post formed organically(बवाल), or whether there was a conspiracy(साजिश )’ to set up a communally(सामुदायिक रूप से) polarizing(ध्रुवीकरण/फूट डालना) confrontation(टकराव/विरोध). In the din of pledges of speedy investigation by everyone from police to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, there is no equivalent messaging that no rumour or act of cow slaughter justifies mob violence.

Ever since the BJP came to power nationally in 2014, its governments in the States have moved to tighten lawsprohibiting(रोक लगाना) cow slaughter. Attendant(सहायक/सेवक) to the legislative(विधायी) prohibition, bands of gau rakshaks, or cow-protection vigilantes, have created an atmosphere(वातावरण) of fear(डर/चिंता), purportedly(कथित रूप से)acting on suspicion of cow slaughter to round up and lynch(वध करना ) at will cattle(मवेशी/गोधन) traders and passersby alike. Probes(जांच,) into the killing(हत्या ), in most cases, move in parallel(समानांतर) with investigations into the allegations(आरोपों)of cow slaughter or the possession of beef. And in a pattern that has crystallised(स्पष्ट/व्यक्त), the hurt sentiments of gau rakshaks are played up to reinforce an equivalence between actual murderous(घातक) crime and rumoured cow slaughter (often, as in the case of Pehlu Khan in Rajasthan’s Alwar district in April 2017, just for transporting cattle). The police, picking up the political signalling or even out of fear of being outnumbered, tend to play down the gravity(गंभीरता/भार) of the crime — as in the case of a lynching(झुकाव ) in Hapur this year, initially(शुरू में) projected as an outcome of road rage. In a disturbing indication(संकेत/लक्षण) of the impunity(माफी/दण्ड मुक्ति) gau rakshaks believe they enjoy, they have captured(पकड़ना/अधिकृत करना) on camera incidents of violence, including Monday’s. Why wouldn’t they, when the state has been playing to their script.

Important Vocabulary

1. Mobs(भीड़/उपद्रवी ).
Synonyms: clan, crowd, flock, gang, horde
Antonyms: individual, single

2.Curious(जिज्ञासु/उत्सुक)
Synonyms: inquisitive, interested, analytical, disquisitive, examining
Antonyms: incurious, unconcerned, average, disinterested, indifferent

3. Captured(पकड़ना/अधिकृत करना) 
Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, catch, conquer, grab
Antonyms: be immune, fail, forfeit, free, give

4. Vigilant(सजग/ सुरक्षा व्यवस्थापक
Synonyms: anxious, attentive, aware, cautious, circumspect
Antonyms: careless, heedless, ignorant, inattentive, incautious

5. Vicinity(आस-पास/पड़ोस)
Synonyms: environs, neighborhood, proximity, ballpark, district
Antonyms: faraway

6. Possession(क़ब्ज़ा/अधिकार).
Synonyms: custody, d

ominion, hold, occupancy, occupation
Antonyms: lack, need, want

7. Reveal(पता चलता है/प्रकट करना)
Synonyms: acknowledge, admit, affirm, announce, concede
Antonyms: conceal, contradict, deny, disavow, dispute

8. Investigations(जांच)
Synonyms: analysis, case, examination, hearing, inquiry
Antonyms: ignorance, neglect

9. Alleged(कथित) 
Synonyms: purported, so-called, stated, supposed, averred
Antonyms: certain, definite, sure

10. Organically(बवाल),
Synonyms: naturally, essentially, inevitably, wholly

11. Pol arising(ध्रुवीकरण/फूट डालना) 
Synonyms: part, separate, demarcate, isolate, partition
Antonyms: combine, connect, join, repair, merge

12. Communally(सामुदायिक रूप से
b all at once, as a body, as a group, as a whole, as one

13. Allegations(आरोपों)
Synonyms: accusation, charge, claim, plea, statement
Antonyms: exculpation, denial

14. Initially(शुरू में) 
Synonyms: originally, at the beginning, first

15.Gravity(गंभीरता/भार)
Synonyms: pressure, weight, force, heaviness
Antonyms: frivolity, inconsequential, levity, silliness, unimportant

16.Lynch(वध करना ) 
Synonyms: execute, hang, kill, murder
Antonyms: bear, create

17.Impunity(माफी/दण्ड मुक्ति)
Synonyms: immunity, dispensation, exception, exemption, liberty
Antonyms: denial, prohibition, veto, imprisonment, incarceration

Editorial : Tariff truce: On U.S.-China trade war

U.S. and China must use the next 90 days to close the trade war in a way that benefits both
The global trade(व्यापार) war has come to a welcome pause. On the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires over the weekend, the U.S. and Chinese

Presidents, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, agreed(सहमत) to a 90-day truce. The two countries will try to find an amicable(मैत्रीपूर्ण) solution to the various(विभिन्न) problems plaguing bilateral(द्विपक्षीय) trade relations(रिश्ते/संबंध,), such as disputes(विचार/विवादों) over intellectual(बौद्धिक/ज्ञान का) property rights and Chinese state support for domestic(घरेलू) industries(उद्योग), through talks over the next three months. Meanwhile(इस दौरान), the U.S. will refrain(बचना होगा) from raising the tariff on Chinese goods worth $200 billion from the current rate of 10% to 25% on January 1, 2019, as planned. In return, according to the White House, China will purchase(खरीद /प्राप्त करना) agricultural and other goods from the U.S. in order to reduce(कम करना) the trade imbalance(असंतुलन) between the two countries. If talks fail, however,increased(बढ़ी हुई) tariff rates are scheduled to come into force immediately(तुरंत/फ़ौरन). It is worth noting that Canada and Mexico arrived at a compromise trade agreement with the U.S. in October, replacing(जगह) the decades-old North-American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). So these are signs that the global trade war that began( शुरू हुआ) earlier this year may be cooling down a little as 2018 draws to an end.

What prompted the U.S. and China to arrive at an unexpected(अप्रत्याशित), albeit(हालांकि/यद्यपि) temporary, compromise is unclear. It will be important to see if any compromise(समझौता) between the two trade giants(दिग्गजों/असाधारण शक्ति) will include(शामिल) a complete rollback of the tariffs imposed(अधिरोपित) on each other over the year. But the temporary trade truce(संघर्ष) should still offer some relief, as there have been apprehensions(आशंकाओं/डर) about the U.S.-China trade battle bringing global economic growth to a grinding halt. Signs of a significant slowdown in the Chinese economy and concerns(चिंताओं/मामला) over the negative impact(प्रभाव) of the trade war on American financial markets may have played a part in Mr. Trump and Mr. Xi agreeing to the truce — probably(शायद/संभवतया) a sober recognition(मान्यता/पहचान) of the fact that there are no economic winners in any trade war. During the upcoming negotiations(बातचीत), the U.S. is likely to press hard on China’s protectionist(संरक्षणवादी) policies aimed at favouring its domestic industries. But it is unlikely(संभावना नहीं)that China will yield(प्राप्ति/पैदावार) to such pressure as that would require( आवश्यकता/आकांक्षा करना) a seismic shift in the country’s growth policy, which till now has emphasized(महत्त्व देना) the state’s role in the economy. In fact, the Chinese government’s promise to increase imports from the U.S. is a clear giveaway of the fact that it still dominates the economy. Further, China itself is bound to draw attention(ध्यान खींचना) to the U.S.’s own protectionist policies. A compromise that will allow both sides to claim final victory in the battle would be the best outcome.



Important Vocabulary

1.Trade(व्यापार
Synonyms: business, commerce, contract, deal, enterprise
Antonyms: disagreement, idleness, indolence, misunderstanding, unemployment

2.Intellectual(बौद्धिक/ज्ञान का)
Synonyms: cerebral, creative, highbrow, mental, psychological
Antonyms: body, physical, foolish, ignorant, simple

3.Disputes(विचार/विवादों)
Synonyms: bickering, brawl, conflict, controversy, debate
Antonyms: accord, agreement, calm, concord, concurrence

4.Bilateral(द्विपक्षीय)
Synonyms: mutual, reciprocal, respective, two-sided
Antonyms: multilateral, unilateral

5.Reduce(कम करना
Synonyms: curtail, cut, cut down, diminish, dwindle
Antonyms: compliment, develop, enlarge, expand, extend

6.Immediately(तुरंत/फ़ौरन).
Synonyms: directly, forthwith, instantly, promptly, rapidly
Antonyms: later, eventually, never

7.Imbalance(असंतुलन)
Synonyms: inequali

ty, shortcoming, asymmetry, disproportion, lopsidedness

8.Albeit(हालांकि/यद्यपि) 
Synonyms: admitting, even if, even though, notwithstanding

9. Unexpected(अप्रत्याशित),
Synonyms: abrupt, accidental, amazing, astonishing, fortuitous
Antonyms: deliberate, designed, expected, intentional, planned

10.Concerns(चिंताओं/मामला) 
Synonyms: burden, interest, involvement, matter, thing
Antonyms: entertainment, fun, pastime, unemployment, disinterest

11.Imposed(अधिरोपित) 
Synonyms: appoint, charge, demand, enforce, establish
Antonyms: disorder, displace, forget, overlook, prevent

12.Require( आवश्यकता/आकांक्षा करना)
Synonyms: lack, crave, desire, miss, wish
Antonyms: dislike, hate, not want, have

13.Recognition(मान्यता/पहचान) 
Synonyms: acceptance, admission, appreciation, awareness, concession
Antonyms: denial, disagreement, disbelief, refusal, repudiation

14.Emphasized(महत्त्व देना) 
Synonyms: accentuate, affirm, assert, highlight, indicate
Antonyms: deny, lose, mumble, depreciate, forget

15.Imposed(अधिरोपित)
Synonyms: appoint, charge, demand, enforce, establish
Antonyms: disorder, displace, forget, overlook, prevent

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