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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
‘UNRWA Says Israel Turning Gaza into Graveyard of Starving Children’; ‘The New Dark Age’: The genocide in Gaza is not an anomaly. It illustrates something fundamental about human nature and is a terrifying harbinger of where the world is headed.
‘Bogota Summit Launches Global South’s Legal Intifada Against Israel and US Impunity’; ‘In Colombia, The Hague Group Charges Israel With Genocide’; ‘A Revolutionary Shift is Underway’: Remarks of Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory.
For years, the BJP championed non-alignment and strategic autonomy as core to its ‘cultural nationalism’. Now, Narendra Modi and Amit Shah have quietly abandoned that legacy, enforcing sweeping policy shifts that will harm the interest of ordinary Indians.
From Odisha to Maharashtra, a quiet purge of Bengali-speaking workers is unfolding—fueled by profiling, detention drives and a near-collapse of constitutional safeguards. Also: ‘Why Bengali Migrant Workers in BJP-Ruled States are Being Asked to Prove They are Indians’.
‘Eights Years On, the Structurally Flawed GST has Failed to Achieve its Goals’: GST has worsened inequalities, terribly impacted the unorganised workforce and cushioned tax evaders. Also: ‘Eight Years of GST: Many Gains, Lingering Pain’.
‘Tracing the Evolution of India’s Labour Laws’; ‘Why the New Labour Codes Do Little for Indian Workers’: The new labour codes – which merged 29 existing laws – primarily apply to the formal sector, leaving the vast majority of the Indian workforce outside its ambit.
If agriculture and food management are indeed to become “the sector of the future”, much more needs to be done, even to prevent them from becoming the sector of future disaster.
‘Mutant Rice and Gates’s Lab Rats: Grand Experiments in India’s Fields’; ‘Gene-Edited Rice Sparks Alarms: Scientists Back Activists, Warn of Hidden Dangers’; ‘Bt Cotton in India is a Monumental Catastrophic Failure’.
India’s press freedom has declined since the Bharatiya Janata Party assumed power in 2014, but the recent FIR filed against a journalist for a critical report on the electoral review by the Election Commission of India, a constitutional authority, represents a significant new low.
‘Congratulations to Workers, Farmers, Agri-Workers and the People at Large for the Grand Success of the Nationwide General Strike on 9 July 2025’; ‘An Update of Events in Tijmali (Raygada-Kalahandi)’.
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