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Daily Vocab Capsule 10th July 2017 Daily English Vocab A Volatile Border One cannot be too sure as to how long the  sabre-rattling  ( the display or threat of military force .) over different perceptions of the Indo-Chinese border will persist. However, the nub of the matter must be that one historical wrong, once made, cannot be unmade. Reacting to Defence Minister Arun Jaitley’s remarks, the Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang invoked the 1890 Sino-British Treaty and its  sacrosanct   ( अलंघनीय ) nature in demarcating the border between the two nations in the Sikkim sector, currently the subject of a rather longish  stand-off ( गतिरोध ) . “I would like the Indian side to respect the 1890 treaty immediately and pull back the border troops which have crossed into Chinese territory back to the Indian side of the boundary,” Geng said. And if that is fair enough, one wonders why China is so unwilling to accept the McMahon Line as a fair demarcation. In its reckoni

Daily Vocab Capsule 9th July 2017 Daily English Vocab Speaking the Language of Change? Democratic Centralism entails popular participation in formulating the plan at the enterprise level. — World Bank Romania country report, 1979. The World Bank’s ‘World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law’ is a remarkable document. Remarkable, because it is hard to believe that the World Bank authored this document. When the report cites Michel Foucault — that  incandescent   ( उत्साही / दीप्त )  French thinker, who showed us how supposedly free and rational institutions of modernity are indissolubly linked with power and social control — it is time to pay attention. Politics and power The report focusses on politics and power in development policy, and  endeavors  ( प्रयत्न ) to move them “from the margins to the core of development thinking and action”. Essentially, this goes against the soul of seven decades of development thinking — technocracy: reliance on capital, t