Trump’s Tariffs: What Can Modi Do – 3 Articles
‘From “Howdy Modi” to “Cannot Name Trump”: How Modi Has Taken a Hit from Trump’s Tariffs and Taunts’; ‘Indian Exports Under Siege: US Tariff Gamble’; and: ‘What Else Can They Do?’.
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Hum, Tum aur Woh: Why India’s Pakistan Problem is Really About Pakistan and China Together
Our strategic choice is between a one-front war with Pakistan and China or two-front diplomacy to resolve issues with both.
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The Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill Perpetuates India’s Banning Regime
The Bill strikes at the heart of the fundamental right to association.
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Former Civil Servants Sound Alarm Over Bihar’s Electoral Special Roll Revision
The CCG, a group of 93 retired civil servants, warned the revision could disenfranchise millions lacking proper documents.
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The Jane Street Scam: SEBI’s Betrayal of Indian People – 2 Articles
‘Jane Street: SEBI Waited Until the Billionaires Got Hurt’: Retail investors were dispensable. It took elite hedge funds sounding the alarm for SEBI to act—proof of a rigged system and selective enforcement. Also: ‘When the Watchdog Befriends the Wolf: The Jane Street Scam and SEBI’s Betrayal of Indian People’.
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Will the Government Finally Acknowledge the Scale of India’s Covid-19 Tragedy?
Newly released 2021 government mortality data shows 3 million excess death registrations in India during Covid-19, suggesting over 4 million total excess deaths. The pandemic’s real impact then was far greater than the official estimate. Covid deaths were around nine times the official death toll.
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Assam’s Agenda for Muslims Goes National
Demolition, detention, disenfranchisement and deportation: Assam’s blueprint to marginalise Muslims is rolling out across India.
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RSS Versus the Constitution
Hosabale wants “secular” and “socialist” out of the Preamble. But the Assembly debates show they were rooted in principle, not forced in by fiat.
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‘Twenty Rupees for Twenty Minutes’: What I Learned Working in India’s Gig Economy
A researcher becomes a ‘partner’ in a food delivery app for two months. What he experiences and learns from his fellow workers is that in the underbelly of India’s vaunted gig economy are low and volatile incomes, high insecurity, risks to health and little respect from customers.
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A Brief History of India’s Education System, Part 2: Education Policies During Nehruvian Period
The second part of a series of articles on India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP: A review of education during the Nehruvian period, including a discussion of the Nehruvian model and its limitations, Nehruvian model and school education, and Nehruvian model and higher education.
