The Hindu Editorial with Vocabulary – May 2018
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The Hindu Editorial with Vocabulary – “A Post-Colonial Reckoning: On The Windrush Scandal”
Britain’s approach to immigration from the Caribbean and South Asia is in the political spotlight. On Wednesday, the anger and emotion felt by some MPs during an intense debate in the House of Commons on the Windrush scandal enveloping the British government was palpable. “What we are not talking about so much is race,” said Shabana Mahmood, an opposition Labour MP for Birmingham, who sought to drive home the impact Britain’s tough immigration regime had on its diverse population. “Try making an application, as a British national, to the Home Office with a name that is demonstrably South Asian in origin. I promise that the protection of a British passport will not help one little bit. People will have visited upon them casual humiliation upon humiliation. The system will treat them as if they were dirt on the bottom of its shoe, and that is not good enough.”
David Lammy, a black Labour MP pointed to the painful legacy of empire and slavery: “I remind the House that I am here because you were there. I say ‘you’ metaphorically. The Windrush generation are here because of slavery. The Windrush story is the story of British empire.”
Since the 1970s
The British government’s hopes of containing the scandal over the treatment of Caribbean and other Commonwealth nationals have failed miserably. To recap: the Windrush generation were migrants from the Commonwealth Caribbean who came to Britain before 1973 (1971 legislation no longer gave them automatic settlement after that date). Along with others from the Commonwealth, they and their families were encouraged to Britain to help meet acute labour shortages, whether in the National Health Service (NHS) or beyond. During Wednesday’s debate, one of the MPs reminded his colleagues why Brixton, a trendy part of south London, had become a hub for Caribbean migrants: “They settled in Brixton to be near the job centre because they wanted to work.” Toughening of immigration rules has led to them being penalised and wrongly treated as undocumented illegal immigrants. Shocking stories of families being separated, unable to return to Britain from holidays abroad, denials of life-saving treatment have abounded in recent weeks. While the stories have mostly centred on those from the Caribbean, there are fears that migrants from across the Commonwealth will inevitably have been impacted. “The scandal also includes those who came from many other Commonwealth countries, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and countries in West Africa,” said Diane Abbott, Labour’s spokesperson on home affairs.
The government — while apologising for the treatment of the Windrush generation and promising acting including compensation — has attempted to treat it as an aberration that had no link with its wider immigration policies. It has tried to make the case that its obsession with cutting migration targets and dealing with illegal migration had nothing whatsoever to do with what had happened. “Measures over many years to tackle illegal immigration are of course a good thing, and we stand by those measures,” insisted Britain’s new (and first ever ethnic minority) Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, who took over earlier this week, as the government sought to contain the crisis. While pointing out that it could easily have been one of his family members who had come from Pakistan to have been impacted, Mr. Javid said it had nothing to do with the pursuit of a “compliant environment” to tackle illegal immigration.
Yet these efforts to separate have proved fruitless amid further revelations around the treatment of people legally in Britain or attempting to get to its shores. Last week it emerged that at least a hundred, and potentially more, Indian doctors who had been recruited by NHS trusts up and down the country to fill sorely needed positions, mostly in emergency medicine, had been unable to take up their positions because of visa issues. The Evening Standard, edited by former Treasury head George Osborne, revealed that Prime Minister Theresa May herself had rejected calls for an easing of the visa rules for non-EU doctors. A separate row is brewing over the treatment of foreign students.
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Foreign students
For many years now the British government has been attempting to deport foreign students (and others) based on allegations that they had committed fraud to obtain the English-language qualifications to stay in the U.K. After a 2014 BBC investigation found evidence of fraud at one testing centre, thousands who had gained their qualification via that route at different test centres were accused of fraud, despite what one judge described as “multiple shortcomings and frailties” of the state’s evidence and the “plausible and truthful” statements of students.
Sanam Arora, the chair of the National Indian Students and Alumni Union U.K., which has been campaigning on behalf students who have faced accusations of fraud believes a “significant population” from India has been impacted. “Our strong suspicion is that thousands could have been wrongly deported or facing difficulties.” She notes that the government’s “deport first, appeal later” strategy, which came into effect around the time students began to face these difficulties, meant there was little recourse open to the students. While she recognises the ambitions of Britain to curb illegal migration, she notes that that the burden of proof — and blame — was swiftly placed on the shoulders of the students rather than the Home Office-approved system that had allowed the fraud to happen. The same applied to past attempts to cull“bogus colleges”, she notes, where rather than treating students as the victims, they were treated by the government and British media as “bogus students”. “The policies of this government are lacking in empathy and concern for the welfare of students,” she says.
Separately, a burgeoning group of South Asians are campaigning against what they believe is a misuse of a clause in legislation to prevent the settlement of criminals. The clause is being used to deny IT professionals, doctors and others long resident in the U.K. the indefinite leave to remain because of minor errors in their tax returns. Hundreds are believed to be impacted.
“I feel vindicated in many ways,” says Lord Karan Bilimoria, a crossbench peer who has been campaigning against the toughening immigration regime, particularly as it pertains to students, for many years now. “I certainly believe that since 2010 the government’s immigration policy has got it very wrong. The word hostile is being used and the atmosphere is blatantly hostile. You just have to look at the catalogue of their policies and the impact it has had.”
Change afoot?
“I do not believe that the term ‘hostile environment’ is in tune with our values as a country,” insisted Mr. Javid in Parliament, referring to the now notorious phase once used by Ms. May. His mollifying words have done little to convince campaigners, however, that fundamental change is on its way. For the first time perhaps, the sturdy thread connecting Britain’s colonial past and legacy, its approach to immigration and its profound human impact, that for decades had been deemed invisible by mainstream politics, has caught the sunlight.
Vocabulary Words from The Hindu Editorial
1. Bogus(adjective) बनावटी/ जाली/ फर्जी : False, not real, or not legal. (not genuine or true; fake.)
Synonyms: Fake, Spurious, False, Fraudulent, Sham, Deceptive, Misleading, Pretended; Counterfeit, Forged, Feigned, Simulated
Antonyms: Genuine, Authentic, Bona Fide, Valid, Real
Example: An email that directs the recipient to a bogus website.
2. Burgeoning(adjective) तेजी से बढ़ते : Growing or developing quickly: (rapidly developing or growing; flourishing)
Synonyms: Flourish, Prosper, Thrive, Expand, Swell
Antonyms: Contract, Decrease, Diminish, Dwindle, Lessen, Recede, Wane
Example: The illegal diamond trade that was burgeoning in Kimberley ensured that there was a steady supply of prisoners.
3. Vindicate(verb) साबित कर देना/ सही या निर्दोष ठहराना/ सिद्ध करना : To prove that someone is not guilty or is free from blame. (If a person or their decisions, actions, or ideas are vindicated, they are proved to be correct, after people have said that they were wrong.)
Synonyms: Acquit, Clear, Absolve, Exonerate, Exculpate, Discharge, Liberate, Free, Justify
Antonyms: Incriminate, Convict, Blame, Impeach, Indict, Punish, Condemn, Blame, Disprove
Example: The former trade minister says that he is happy to submit to any tests that help vindicate him.
4. Mollify(verb) शांत करना : To make someone less angry or upset, or to make something less severe or more gentle: (to lessen the harshness or severity of)
Synonyms: Appease, Placate, Pacify, Conciliate, Propitiate, Allay, Assuage, Alleviate, Mitigate
Antonym: Aggravate, Provoke, Enrage, Agitate, Exasperate
Example: I still think it’ll be fascinating to see what rhetorical path she chooses to try and mollify her liberal fans.
5. Aberration(noun) सामान्य से विचलन/ पतन/ हटना : A departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically one that is unwelcome. (deviation from what is normal, expected, or usual)
Synonyms: Anomaly, Deviation, Divergence, Abnormality, Irregularity, Variation, Digression, Quirk, Oddity, Mistake
Antonyms: Normality, Soundness, Conformity, Regularity, Usualness
Example: Justice suffers because parents have no way of trusting that their own experiences are the norm rather than an aberration.
6. To drive home(idiom) महत्त्व देना : To state something in a very forceful and effective way to lay emphasis. (to make clear by special emphasis)
Synonyms: Emphasize, Stress, Highlight, Spotlight, Accentuate, Illuminate
Antonyms: Underemphasize, Understate
Example: The teacher drove home in his lecture the importance of nationsl integration.
7. Plausible(adjective) प्रशंसनीय/ सत्य प्रतीत होने वाला/ मुमकिन : Seeming likely to be true, or able to be believed ((of an argument or statement) seeming reasonable or probable)
Synonyms: Credible, Reasonable, Believable, Likely, Feasible, Probable, Tenable, Possible, Conceivable, Imaginable, Cogent
Antonyms: Unlikely, Improbable, Incredible, Impossible, Unbelievable, Absurd, Preposterous
Example: He disputed this apparently plausible report with some vigour.
8. Frailty(noun) निर्बलता/ नाज़ुकता : The condition of being weak and delicate. (Frailty is the condition of having poor health.)
Synonyms: Infirmity, Weakness, Feebleness, Debility, Incapacity, Impairment, Indisposition;
Fragility, Delicacy, Puniness; Decrepitude
Antonyms: Robustness, Strength, Vigour, Sturdiness, Virility, Heftiness
Example: We are vastly more tolerant of mental frailty in sport.
9. Cull(verb) चुनना/ संख्या कम करने के लिए मारना : Reduce the population of (a wild animal) by selective slaughter. (something separated from a group or lot for not being as good as the others. )
Synonyms: Discard, Reject, Rejection, Castaway, Throwaway Jettison, Remove
Antonyms: Retain, Preserve, Save
Example: Only one in three of the top managers survived the cull.
10. Notorious(adjective) कुख्यात/ बदनामी/ गलत काम के लिए प्रसिद्ध : Famous or well known, typically for some bad quality or deed.
Synonyms: Infamous, Ill-Famed, Scandalous, Renowned, Disreputable, Famed, Prominent
Antonym: Unknown, Nameless, Anonymous, Unpopular, Prestigious, Honourable, Ethical
Example: The list is endless, but here are a few of the more notorious celebrations of recent times.
11. Hostile (adjective) शत्रुतापूर्ण / प्रतिरोधी / विरोधी: If you are hostile to another person or an idea, you disagree with them or disapprove of them, often showing this in your behaviour.
Synonyms: Unfriendly, unkind, bitter, unsympathetic, malicious, vicious, rancorous, venomous, poisonous.
Antonym: Favorable, helpful, friendly, agreeable.
Example: As a result, students of the left face the most hostile political environment in modern times.
12. Sturdy (adjective) मज़बूत / प्रबल / बलवान: Someone or something that is sturdy looks strong and is unlikely to be easily injured or damaged.
Synonyms: Vigorous, strong, stalwart, firm, determined, resolute, staunch, steadfast.
Antonym: Moderate, unhealthy, flabby, calm, delicate.
Example: The boat had to be sturdy enough to withstand 40 days and nights of rain.
Word of the Day – “Flaunt”
- Flaunt (verb) इतरा कर प्रदर्शित करना, इठलाना, इतराना, फड़फड़ाना, झूमना, अकड़ कर चलना, अपनी शान दिखाना
- Meaning:- Display (something) ostentatiously, especially in order to provoke envy or admiration or to show defiance.
- Synonyms: Show off, display ostentatiously, make a (great) show of, put on show/display, parade
- Antonym: Conceal, suppress, withhold, cover.
- Example: Some people go to great lengths to disguise their grey hair, whereas other people flaunt them.
- उदाहरण: कुछ लोगों अपने सफेद बालों को छिपाने की भरपूर कोशिश करते हैं जबकि कुछ अन्य लोग इन्हें इतरा कर प्रदर्शित करते हैं।
Quote of the Day
“He who has never hoped can never despair.” William Shakespeare
“ऐसा व्यक्ति जिसने कभी आशा नहीं की, वह कभी निराशा भी नहीं होता है।” विलियम शेक्सपियर
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