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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Get real on Swachh: on manual scavenging"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Get real on Swachh: on manual scavenging"
- Manual Scavenging - a caste-based occupation involving the removal of untreated human excreta from bucket toilets or pit latrines
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Stringent - stringent rules or conditions are strict and make you achieve high standards
- Penal - relating to the punishment of criminals
- Provision - a part of law that deals with a particular problem
- Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
- Enforcement - the process of making sure that something happens, especially that people obey a law or rule
- Prohibition - a law or rule that stops people from doing something
- Rehabilitation - to return something to a good condition
- In the wake of something - happening after an event or as a result of it
- Malaise - a general feeling of being worried, unhappy, or not satisfied
- Evidently - easily seen or understood
- Vigorous - full of energy, enthusiasm, or determination
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Insanitary - insanitary conditions are dirty and dangerous to your health
- Urban - relating to towns and cities, or happening there
- Excreta - the liquid and solid waste that your body gets rid of
- Indifference - lack of interest or sympathy
- Prejudice - an unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially the feeling of not liking a particular group of people
- Persist - to continue to exist
- Obligation - something that you must do for legal or moral reasons
- Demolish - to deliberately destroy a building
- Sanitation - conditions and processes relating to people’s health, especially the systems that supply water and deal with human waste
- Census - an occasion on which government officials count the people who live in a country and record other information about them
- Substantial - large in amount or degree
- Incongruous - strange because of being very different to other things which happen or exist in the same situation
- Cess - a tax
- Determined - not willing to let anything prevent you from doing what you have decided to do
- Scourge - something that causes a lot of trouble or harm
- Impede - to make it more difficult for someone to do something or more difficult for something to happen
- Ritual - a formal ceremony
- Conservative - not willing to accept much change, especially in the traditional values of society
- Unscientific - not considered, examined, or tested using methods that scientists think are necessary
- Pernicious - very dangerous or harmful
- Entrenched - entrenched attitudes or feelings have existed for a long time and are difficult to change
- Stigmatise - to treat a particular type of behaviour as wrong or embarrassing and to try to make people who behave in this way feel ashamed
- Accurate - correct or true in every detail
- Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
- Reluctance - unwillingness or disinclination to do something.
- Empowerment - authority or power given to someone to do something
- Barrier - anything that prevents progress or makes it difficult for someone to achieve something
- Uplift - to make someone feel happier or more hopeful
- Compensation - money that someone receives because something bad has happened to them
- Humiliating - making you feel very embarrassed and ashamed
- Hazardous - dangerous, especially to people’s health or safety
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Erdoğan’s excesses: a year on from the Turkey coup"
- Coup - an occasion when a group of people takes control of a country, usually by means of military force
- Defend - to prevent something from failing, stopping, or being taken away
- Democracy - a system of government in which people vote in elections to choose the people who will govern them
- Seize - to take something using official power and force
- Fractious - causing problems and difficult to control
- Denounce - to criticize someone or something severely in public
- Victory - an occasion when you win a game, competition, election, war, etc
- Usher in - to make an activity or process begin
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Unrest - angry or violent behaviour by people who are protesting against something
- Purge - to remove people suddenly or violently from an organization, group etc
- Plotter - someone who secretly makes plans to do something illegal or harmful
- Preacher - someone whose job is to give religious speeches or to lead religious ceremonies in some Christian churches
- Crackdown - strong action that someone in authority takes to stop a particular activity
- Impose - to introduce something such as a new law or new system, and force people to accept it
- State of emergency - a situation in which a government takes action to deal with an event such as a flood or a fire that is putting a lot of people in danger
- Grappling with something - to try hard to understand a difficult idea or to solve a difficult problem
- Purge - to remove people suddenly or violently from an organization, group etc
- Referendum - an occasion when everyone in a country can vote to make a decision about one particular subject
- Constitution - a set of basic laws or principles for a country that describe the rights and duties of its citizens and the way in which it is governed
- Transform - to make someone or something completely different
- Domestically - relating to the country being talked about, not other countries
- Strongman - a political leader who uses force or threats to keep power
- Conservative - not willing to accept much change, especially in the traditional values of society
- Antagonise - to make someone feel angry with you, so that they start to dislike you or have a negative attitude towards you
- Violation - an action that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc
- Authoritarian - controlling everything and forcing people to obey strict rules and laws
- Ally - a country that makes an agreement with another country that they will work together to help each other, especially in a war
- Opportune - something that is opportune happens at a suitable time or at a time that seems lucky
- Undermining - to make something or someone become gradually less effective, confident, or successful
- Mobilise - if you mobilize a group of people, or if they mobilize, they come together in order to achieve something
- Precarious - likely to change or become dangerous without warning
- Stability - a situation in which things happen as they should and there are no harmful changes
- Endanger - to put someone or something at risk or in danger of being harmed, damaged, or destroyed
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