Punjab Farmers’ Year-Long Border Protest Gains New Momentum
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Punjab Farmers’ Year-Long Border Protest Gains New Momentum

Farmers from Punjab have protested at the Khanauri and Shambhu borders since February 2024, demanding legally guaranteed minimum support prices for crops. Agitation has intensified with Jagjit Singh Dallewal’s fast-unto-death and three farmer suicides, as the Centre maintains its wait-and-watch policy.

Gandhi’s Reflections on Kumbha Mela; Can the Ganga Survive the Kumbh Mela? – 2 Articles
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Gandhi’s Reflections on Kumbha Mela; Can the Ganga Survive the Kumbh Mela? – 2 Articles

Gandhi’s disapproval of ‘Hindu water’ and ‘Muslim water’ and superstitions and hypocrisy of sadhus on the occasion Kumbh Mela in 1915 offers lessons in the context of the 2025 Kumbh Mela. Also: Will the Ganga be able to heal or nourish anyone for very long after the Kumbh Mela?

Why UP School Teachers On Contract Drive Rickshaws, Tailor Clothes Despite BJP Promises, Winning Court Cases
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Why UP School Teachers On Contract Drive Rickshaws, Tailor Clothes Despite BJP Promises, Winning Court Cases

More than 24,000 ‘instructors’—teachers on contract—are paid Rs 7,000 per month to teach classes one to eight in Uttar Pradesh, making up 4% of government school teachers. Many now moonlight as salesmen, tailors, rickshaw drivers and workers in a state with India’s fifth lowest literacy rate.