Genocide: The New Normal
Israel and the U.S. government will continue the genocide in Gaza for many months until the Palestinians are annihilated or driven from their homeland and Greater Israel is consolidated.
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This Once Great Country Has Lost Its Soul
Like the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s macabre novel 1984, PM Modi’s regime has waged war on truth, doctoring statistics and other indices of performance; even going to the extent of lobbying international agencies to bump up India’s position in the global rankings.
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A New Union of Maruti Suzuki Workers Emerges After Years of Solidarity, Struggle
Formed with the backing of employees dismissed in 2012, the Maruti Suzuki Non-permanent Workers Sangh will seek job security and better pay.
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The Steady Immiseration of Labour
By the end of the 1990s, both capital and a willing state had eviscerated the labour movement. The death blow will be dealt in the 2020s.
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Farm Laws Reborn: Toxic Platter for India’s Farmers and Consumers
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a coalition of 40+ farmers’ unions, contends that the Centre is proposing to undermine the federal rights of state governments by surrendering India’s food security and compromising its national sovereignty under the slogan ‘One Nation, One Market’.
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Indians Being Deprived of their Right to Education?
The Central Government recently decided to abolish the “no-detention” policy for students in classes 5 and 8 in schools under its jurisdiction. The recent amendment, it is feared, may deprive a considerable section from poor and rural sections of a “Right” they seemed to be making all efforts to making maximum use of.
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Not All That’s Green Is a Forest
An analysis of the India State of Forest Report 2023 – which faced a year-long delay with no official explanation.
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The Curious Case of Strengthening Dollar, Falling Rupee
The primary cause of the rupee’s depreciation is the preference of the Indian rich to hold their wealth in the form of U.S. dollars rather than in Indian rupees. This gives rise to a persistent shift from rupees to dollars causing the rupee’s depreciation.
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US-India: Diamonds Are Not Forever
There is a saying that our dreams ought to be what define our individuality. As the English poet and philosopher William Blake put it in sharper focus, ‘No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings’. But the Modi Government’s diplomacy leaps out of Kautilya’s Arthashastra.
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Not Just Popcorn: Bizarre GST Rates Are Eating Into Middle Class’ Savings
As the curtains fell on 2024, FM Nirmala Sitharaman reminded Indians that after the feast comes the reckoning.
