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.
Remembering Meena, the Great Afghan Woman Martyr
The great Afghan woman martyr, Meena (1956-1987) founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) in 1977. We reproduce here a part of Meena’s poem which she wrote few months before her martyrdom.
RTI Anniversary: Multiple Barriers To ‘Right To Information’ Persist in India
Seventeen years after Indians won the Right to Information, the backlog of pending RTI appeals continues to grow in the face of understaffed and defunct information commissions, and attacks on RTI activists are becoming more brutal.
The Turbulent Future of Higher Education
Higher education in India no longer guarantees decent work in a changing and shrinking job market, even as its investment in liberal values is being challenged. Given the policy reforms and technological upheavals also underway, our universities face an uncertain future under an uncaring state.
Beyond Policies, Companies Need To Improve Culture To Help Retain Women In Workplaces
Women still face casual sexism, feel reluctant to report sexual harassment at the workplace and find it difficult to succeed within companies because of gender bias.
Why are the Twenty-Two Vows Necessary for Neo-Buddhists?
The 22 vows of Babasaheb can free the newly ordained Buddhists from the anti-human beliefs of Hinduism and bind them to the human beliefs of Buddhism. These vows are not anti-Hindu in any way but give guidelines for the followers of Buddhism which each religion gives.