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This marginalization of the rural economy is a result of the policymakers’ focus being on the organized part. No wonder the agriculture sector which provides the most important item of consumption — food — has been marginalized.
Sociologists have long believed that urbanisation could signal the end of the caste system. B.R. Ambedkar encouraged people from marginalised castes to migrate to urban areas. Unfortunately, however, cities have their own way of perpetuating these inequalities.
If we are to regain a democratic future, we need to do everything in our power to stem that rot in the hearts of our children.
Ever since the rise of capitalism and corporations, the manipulation of science has been at the centre of the endeavours of big companies and corporations – like those related to tobacco, asbestos, chemicals, fast food, and oil and gas. This is a threat to human existence as well as planet earth.
The need for intellectuals to commit themselves body and soul to the common good, and the opposition to world war, and nuclear war, is only the greater at this horrible moment of taunting and daring launched by Presidents Biden and Putin today – says Pastreich.
20 years ago, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, as war criminals, launched the sociocide of the people of Iraq. That illegal war of aggression was based on recognized lies, propaganda and cover-ups.
Germany benefited from the cancellation of most of its debt in 1953, which was instrumental in helping the country regain its position as a leading economic power. Since then, no other country has received such favourable treatment. A discussion on the why and how of this debt cancellation.
The West Africa Peoples Organisation has welcomed the proposal for greater collaboration between Burkina Faso, Mali, and Guinea, and has called for coordinating and planning production, trade, infrastructure, economic development, and defence.
The Alí Primera and Hugo Chávez communards of Venezuela tell the story of their struggle for land and its deep historical roots.
An excerpt from the book ‘Mystics and Sceptics : In Search of Himalayan Masters’, edited by Namita Gokhale.
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