SC’s Shaheen Bagh Order: Fundamental Rights for Commuters, No Country for Protesters
The SC judgment on designated protest spaces is not only un-implementable, but also profoundly elitist and anti-women.
In Funding Hatred, India’s Corporates Have Compromised With Evil
Public pressure and the boycott should extend also to those members of India Inc. who continue to support these channels with advertisements.
It’s All Work and No Pay for Most Women in India
The NSSO’s time use survey reveals striking facts about how men and women in India spend their time very differently, with women hugely burdened by unpaid work.
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Caste, Merit and Liberalisation – Two Articles
Seeing merit as a ‘neutral’ ideology justifies exclusion and discrimination; mass examinations like the JEE reinforce the perception of merit as a measure of individual and relative ability divorced from social structural factors.
Why Is it Important to Preserve and Protect our Freedom of Speech, Expression and Right to Protest
Justice Lokur addresses a gradual erosion of one of our most precious fundamental rights – the inalienable right to freedom of speech and expression, an erosion that is leading to the gradual destruction of our human right to dissent and protest.
Two Poems: One Day I Saw My Girl; Red
You can cage the singer, but not the song …
Exclusive: America’s True Unemployment Rate
If a person who is looking for a full-time job that pays a living wage — but can’t find one — is unemployed, the true unemployment rate in the U.S. is a stunning 26.1%.
Amidst Pandemic, Billionaires’ Wealth Zooms – Globally and in India
The wealth of billionaires, in this pandemic, tops trillions of dollars. America’s 400 richest are worth a record $3.2 trillion. The net worth of India’s billionaires too rose by more than a third between April and July, 2020.
How India’s Leader Modi Is Changing Laws to Help Imperialists Dominate the Country’s Agriculture
Foreign investors and multinational companies have been pushing countries like India to become food-import-dependent and divert land devoted to food grain toward crops that imperialist countries can’t grow.
“Herd Immunity” Is Unethical, Says WHO
But that is precisely what most countries are doing – allowing the disease to simply spread through society.