Meltdown

Debate began decades back about direct transfer of money to the poor and continues. Mostly politicians who are creations of elections, oppose formal distribution of cash to the poor or direct transfer of cash via the state, while being in the government or outside . People can be imparted skills and given goods but the poor cannot be trusted with cash and its direct transfer? While the companies who understand cash better are the ones who adopt the suggestion wholeheartedly. They offer cash back, directly in your account, if you buy with credit or debit cards or use online payment apps. So, if you have some purchasing power, you are part of the cash back scheme.  You can be an immediate beneficiary. Elections are supposed to fall outside the realm of financial and monetary influences in order to secure that they are 'free'. People, representatives and intermediaries understand the relationship between elections and cash as immediate and direct. Though there is an offici...

The science would be translated as vigayan in hindi and the word for theory is sidhant. Political science is rajnitik vigyan/shastra and one of its subfield political theory would be named as rajnatik sidhant as the hindi translation of their english counterparts. One would associate science with empirical and explanatory and may be sidhant is closer to principle so closer to normative. How are distinctions in the English language placed in their Hindi translation?  The translations of the terms could be literal by taking a word in its isolation looking for a equivalent word as stand alone in another language. It is possible that translations also factor the distinctions that envelops a word and is attuned to the process that turns a word into a concept and places it in a theoretical universe. The translated word or the accepted and actual term in one language may also mark the convergence and divergence of one language with another, revealing the contours of the history that bri...