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Anand Teltumbde argues that caste enumeration entrenches hierarchy instead of dismantling it, and explains why the Modi government’s U-turn on a caste census is rooted in electoral arithmetic.
A conversation with Harinder Baweja, one of India’s most widely respected journalists. In this conversation, she reflects on the fading ethos of fearless journalism, and how politics, ideology and apathy have together imperilled India’s secular promise.
This interview with biographer-historian Abhishek Choudhary, author of a major new work on A.B. Vajpayee, dismantles the liberal nostalgia that paints Vajpayee as a Nehruvian moderate, portraying instead a leader whose compromises and ideological loyalties helped clear the path for the unapologetic majoritarianism of today.
In Punjab, the Aam Aadmi Party government’s shift from ally to adversary in the farmers’ struggle reflects deeper faultlines in India’s agrarian policy and political landscape. India’s agrarian distress is unresolved even though the performance of the agriculture sector has been buoyant.
A study finds Indian Muslims to be systematically disadvantaged, less likely to have public schools, clinics, sewerage, water supply and closed drains than in non-Muslim areas, a misallocation of government services that is comparable to the current situation of blacks in the United States.
A study examined arrest records and forest offences under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. While 9 out of every 10 cases were still pending, impoverished forest-dwellers suffered livelihood loss and a heavy financial burden as trials dragged on for years.
On the continuing abuse and exploitation of women and minor girls from impoverished eastern states trafficked to fill the gap in states with a skewed sex ratio.
Highly qualified candidates seeking low-level jobs, reduced wages, lower real incomes, worsening quality of employment, millions moving from salaried jobs to casual work—many things disguise unemployment in India.
On 3 December, a tribunal revoked the sole rights granted by the government to Pepsico over a potato used to make its best-selling Lays brand of chips. But while the order delighted farmers, it did not reflect India’s unique law that allows farmers to trade in even those seeds protected as intellectual property.
Since 2020, attacks on independent media have surged, with arrests, terror and sedition cases, even as a right-wing ecosystem issues rape and death threats and discredits any narrative against official interests.
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