How to Read the Hindu Editorial for Bank Exams?

How to Read the Hindu Editorial for Bank Exams: In this blog, let us go through an editorial article taken from the Hindu Newspaper and understand how to go about reading it and that too on regular basis. Reading regularly has the following benefits:

• Stimulates your brain, which helps keep the brain healthy.
• Reduces stress faced in day-to-day life.
• Expands the realm of your knowledge,
• Improves vocabulary and memory,
• Enhances critical & analytical thinking,
• Improves your focus & attention,
• Improves your writing skills etc.
• Calms the minds and also is a source of free entertainment.

Why not indulge in such an activity when it offers such wide-ranging benefits? In this post, we will learn How to Read the Hindu Editorial for Bank Exams and also learn the meanings of difficult words and phrases used in it. 

What is an Editorial?

It is basically an opinion of a person/individual about a particular subject or topic. It is mostly written by the editor of the newspaper or magazine conveying his/her outlook about a particular topic mostly recent and important. 

How to Read the Hindu Editorial for Bank Exams? 

Given below are the difficult words and the passage itself. The passage is from a 2019 editorial on the increase in mob lynching. Go through the words and read the passage to understand the form and usage of these new words better.

Taking on the mob: On Rajasthan law against mob lynching

Rajasthan’s laws on lynching; ‘honor killing’ are inevitable responses to rising hate crimes

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It is possible to argue that there is no need to create new criminal offenses for ‘lynching’ and ‘honor killing’ because they remain plain murders. These are already punishable by death or life imprisonment. Yet, mob lynching and murderous attacks on young couples in the name of preserving family or community honor have emerged as preponderant social evils. It is inevitable that societies come up with new ways of combating such hate crimes. Rajasthan has made bold to grapple with these two crimes by passing special penal laws.

1. Mob – An angry crowd

2. Mob Lynching – A crowd that wants to kill someone without a legal trial (without going to court) because they think/perceive he/she has committed a crime. Basically, they take the law into their hands. 

3. Honour Killing – It is basically killing a relative or a girl or a woman who is perceived to have brought dishonor to the family.

4. Preponderant – Prevalent or Dominant 

5. Inevitable – Unavoidable

6. Combating – Fighting/battle against something; Take action to prevent or reduce something 

7. Grapple with – To physically struggle with someone else to obtain something; Try hard to understand a particular idea or solve a difficult problem; To handle

8. Made Bold – To take action; Taking liberty to do something

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Vigilante mobs have unleashed a wave of crimes in the name of cow protection and preventing the sale of beef or transport of cattle; the spread of rumor and attempts to establish sectarian dominance have also contributed to this disturbing phenomenon. The Supreme Court zeroed in on the nub of the trend when it spoke of “rising intolerance and growing polarisation” in a judgment last year. It also mooted a special law to criminalize it and “instill a sense of fear” among those too quick to form a lynch mob.

9. Vigilante – People who observe things, take things into their own hands, and act as an authority; A member of a self-appointed group who punishes people for crime or punishes people who they perceive have done a crime.

10. Unleashed – Released 

11. Sectarian – Related to a particular section

12. Zeroed in on – To give all your attention to a particular thing, Focus

13. Nub – Crux of the matter, Central point of the matter; Crucial

14. Polarisation – Two sets of opinions (Based on two poles)

15. Mooted – Suggested; To give an opinion

16. Instil – To establish something

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The passage of the Protection from Lynching Bill, 2019, makes Rajasthan the second State, after Manipur, to implement the suggestion. A positive feature is that it closely resembles the Manipur law in the way “lynching” is defined. It covers any act of violence, whether spontaneous or planned, by a mob on the grounds of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth, language, dietary practices, sexual orientation, political affiliation or ethnicity. And two persons are enough to constitute a ‘mob’.

17. Resembles – Similar to something

18. Affiliation – Connections

19. Dietary Practices – Practices of eating 

20. Ethnicity – Social or cultural background on how you live; Having the same belief or culture

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According to the State’s Parliamentary Affairs Minister, 86% of mob lynching incidents reported in India after 2014 were in Rajasthan. The Bill says that when a mob attack ends in death, it is punishable with life imprisonment and a fine of up to ₹5 lakh. There are lesser terms for causing injuries. As directed by the Supreme Court, the Bill provides for appointment of a nodal officer to prevent lynching and for district police chiefs to act as coordinators. It ensures compensation to victims and rehabilitation measures for those displaced. 

21. Rehabilitation – Action of restoring something that is damaged to its former conditions; Restore something

22. Displaced – Moved from the original position 

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The opposition BJP, on expected lines, contended that the Bill was being brought in a hurry to please a community. However, it is a fact that Muslims have been prime targets of lynch mobs. The party’s fulmination against the other Bill that prohibits interference in the “freedom of matrimonial alliances in the name of honour and tradition” was equally bereft of substance, as it cited societal norms and cultural practice to oppose the progressive law. In effect, it was batting for khap panchayats that seek to interdict inter-caste marriages. The Bill provides for both death and life imprisonment for killing in the name of honour, but it is doubtful if courts will look at all such murders as among the ‘rarest of rare cases’ that warrant the resort to the death penalty.23. Contended - To assert something very confidently 

24. Prime – Main

25. Fulmination – Objection against; Strong opposition/ protest against something

26. Bereft – Deprived of something; Lacking something 

27. Interference – Come in between 

How to Read the Hindu Editorial for Bank Exams: Conclusion

So this was all from us in this blog “How to Read the Hindu Editorial for Bank Exams?” We sincerely hope that you like the content provided here. Remember making it a regular habit to read and analyze the newspaper will help immensely in many ways. Hence, candidates would benefit greatly from making newspaper reading a part of the daily preparation routine.

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