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Numbers tell several worrying tales in ‘State of India’s Environment: In Figures’, a report published by the Centre for Science and Environment and Down to Earth magazine on June 2.
Sarkari economists have latched on to the latest estimates of national income and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) issued by the National Statistical Office on May 31, to assert yet again that India is on the verge of an economic recovery. Nothing could be more wrong.
The Modi government has been claiming that India had received the highest FDI inflow of $83.57 billion in FY 2021-22. While this is not incorrect, the full picture about foreign investment in India is much bigger than this – India’s foreign exchange crisis is actually worsening.
Why do we see an increase in industrial accidents? There will be and may be specific causes in each incident. But broadly it is the result of conducive social environment created by the people in power.
The BJP’s periodic pronouncements on making Hindi the single national language are proof of its inability to understand that India’s enormous linguistic diversity is key to building a common cultural heritage.
Processes unleashed since August 2019 are bearing fruit that favour BJP, not Kashmiris or the Pandit community, who are vigorously challenging Right-Wing communalism. Also: Yasin Malik Could Have Been the Muivah of Kashmir.
The US is groping in the dark about the Russian intentions in Ukraine. It keeps improvising and updating its narrative to cope with emergent realities that keep coming as nasty surprises.
Our ignorance of the costs of war is cultural and systemic. Our military certainly hasn’t proved eager to document civilian casualties in a reliable or consistent way. In fact, what the Pentagon has known about them was often actively suppressed.
Adapted from Vijay Prashad’s speech on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: in 1975, Walter Rodney said, Africa is on the move. This line stays with me, digs deep into my sense of historical possibility. What did Rodney mean when he said that line?
The crisis is not going away any time soon. While this will mean even greater devastation for workers and students, it leaves open the possibility for this struggle to deepen its assault on Sri Lanka’s elites.
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