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The seventh part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses a key strategy adopted by the BJP for advancing its political and cultural agenda – the saffronisation of the country’s education system.
India’s large capitalists and India’s people are both facing problems at present. These problems appear to be direct opposites of each other; but in fact they are two faces of the same phenomenon. The first part of this article described the financial situation of the corporate sector. This part describes the financial situation of the people.
‘Legislating the Platform Economy: A Win for Some, Silence for Others’: The new wave of ‘gig’ legislation in India is a welcome development, but it also underscores how uneven India’s social protection architecture remains. Also: ‘The Political Economy of Gig Pensions’.
‘A Himalayan Crisis’: A deadly combination of Climate Change Crisis and allround ‘insane developmentalism’ is wrecking havoc across the Hindukush Himalayas. Also: ‘India’s Himalayan Hydropower, Infrastructure Push is Having a Deadly Ripple Effect’.
Satyarani Chadha, whose daughter Sashi was burnt to death in 1979, transformed private grief into public protest. With ally Shah Jahan, she forced India to strengthen its laws on dowry, cruelty and bride burning.
A grand two-day conference was held at St Antony’s College, Oxford University, on September 4 and 5, 2025, on “The Self-Respect Movement and Its Legacies”. The conference marked the centenary of the Self-Respect Movement.
‘Trump’s Everywhere War: An Insurrection Against the Constitution’; ‘Trump Wants Martial Law: A Report and Reflections from Chicago’; ‘“An Egregious Abuse of Power”: Trump Orders Troops to Portland, Ore; OKs “Full Force”’; ‘A Movement-Based Opposition to Trump and MAGA’.
‘Rebuilding Nepal’; ‘Nepal’s Gen-Z Movement and the Ghostly Afterlives of Revolution’; ‘Nepal: Turbulence and Disquiet’.
‘Gen Z Uprising? Protests in Paraguay Against the Peña Government’; ‘Indigenous Resistance in Paraguay Forces Peña’s Government to Back Down’; ‘Peru: The Invented Country of Dina Boluarte’; ‘Peru: Amid Mass Protests, Congress Ousts De Facto President Dina Boluarte’; ‘Authoritarianism, Austerity, Repression, and False Narratives: The Crisis in Ecuador’; ‘Congress Overturns Milei’s Vetoes: Victory for Healthcare and Education’.
‘When Maria Corina Machado Wins the Nobel Peace Prize, “Peace” has Lost its Meaning’; ‘Nobel Prize for Imperialist War and Regime Change Goes to Washington’s Venezuelan Puppet María Corina Machado’.
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