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The Carnatic vocalist and public intellectual argues that India must defend its founding symbols and also reimagine their meaning for a changing time.
‘India-US Trade Deal: Five Takeaways from the White House Statements’; ‘Minister Piyush Goyal’s Notes Mentioned “India’s Calibrated Opening of Agriculture”’; ‘The US-India Trade Deal is Unbalanced and Potentially Devastating’; ‘US-India Trade Deal: A Colonial Era-Like Unequal Treaty’; ‘Modi’s Skewed Trade Deal with Trump Demolishes the Idea of Swaraj Envisioned by Dadabhai Naoroji and Gandhi’; ‘Is the Corporate Conquest of Indian Agriculture Complete?’.
When growth numbers flatter power, hide job scarcity, and mute rising costs, bad data stops disciplining policy and democracy pays a hefty price, writes the famed economist professor.
‘The Supreme Court’s Remarks on Trade Unions Are Not in Conformity with the Constitution’; ‘Domestic Workers, Women’s Labour, and the Language of the Courts’; ‘Incinerated in the Name of Growth: The Price of India’s War on Trade Unions’.
Mumbai’s public bus transport, the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST), once considered a model for bus services in the country, is now in complete shambles. Yet this situation was foreseen and was publicly warned against more than seven years ago, when the authorities took the fatal decision to privatise BEST’s core operations.
‘“Indianisation” of Syllabi is Hollowing Out Knowledge in Our Universities’; ‘Gagged Campuses, Hollowed Classrooms: The Universities in India Today’; ‘Cash Crunch, Research Void and Guest Faculty Surge: The Collapse of Social Sciences in India’; ‘The Cost of Learning: Protests Mount Across Universities as Fee Hikes Deepen Crisis of Accessibility’.
The merging of faith with State has not worked out well anywhere.
The philosopher argues that in modern liberal states, secularism has become a cudgel used by elites to oppose multicultural accommodations for religious minorities.
Despite high-speed trains and higher safety spending, Indian Railways continue to battle chronic delays. Data and experts point to aging infrastructure, poor maintenance, and congestion.
Diversified farming can resolve ecological and monetary concerns but an agricultural transformation is impossible without better government support. Part II: Thirsty Crops, Tired Soil: Vicious Loop Threatens India’s Food and Water Security. Part III: The Fertiliser Addiction of Indian Farming is a Crisis.
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