Ambedkar, Buddhism and Dalit Liberation
Events of the last few days indicate AAP and BJP worship Ambedkar purely for electoral gains and not from commitment to his ideas.
Walking for Hope – Two Articles
As Rahul Gandhi strides (or sprints) forward to keep his tryst with Nehruvian and Gandhian ideals of pluralist, democratic India, he is rapidly evolving into the kind of leader who is feared by the Sangh Parivar; Also – A public health physician’s diary of a day-and-a-half on the long march of Rahul Gandhi.
Farmer Suicides: What Field Data Shows and Union Government Data Shrouds
Data from the NCRB on farmers’ suicides, when compared with data collected from the ground by the Punjab Agricultural University, shows a severe undercounting of the phenomenon in the country.
Fifth-Largest Economy? India Added 56 Million or Whopping 79% to Global ‘Extreme Poor’
The World Bank’s latest poverty estimate delivers shocking news: India added a whopping 79% of new extreme poor to the world population in 2020. In absolute numbers, it says, the global population of extreme poor grew by 71 million and India added 56 million to this.
Hindi Imposition: Another Attack on States’ Autonomy
The imposition of Hindi is not only an insidious form of establishing cultural hegemony over non-Hindi-speaking states but also an attack on the federal nature of the Indian state. Also: “Kerala Against Hindi Imposition; Terms Recommendations Attack on Federalism and Diversity of Nation”.
The Contradictions of the ‘Urban’ in India
The informal working class makes the city, but the city has no place for its own makers.
‘Citizens Without Citizenship’: How True Freedom Still Eludes India’s Denotified, Nomadic Tribes
Like the Roma and Sinti of Europe, Indian nomadic groups were also criminalised. After 75 years, the government must recognise their economic and social rights.
Floods, Hunger, Disease and IMF Austerity Devastate Pakistan’s Workers and Poor
While pursuing its reactionary military-strategic rivalry with India, Pakistan’s ruling elite relies upon the military as the bulwark of the capitalist state machine that upholds its privileges and ruthlessly suppresses the democratic, social and economic aspirations of the people.
Inside the Global Garment Industry
Giant retailers in the developed economies make huge fortunes in concert with smaller-scale textile and garment factories, the bulk of them in Asia and other parts of the global South. While this has brought luxury for a privileged few, it has plunged millions into a vast matrix of exploitation.
If We Don’t Act Now, 600 Million Metric Tons of Plastic May Fill Oceans by 2036
Fossil fuel stakeholders have been seeking new revenue in the petrochemical industry in general, and plastics in particular.