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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
In a world where environmental degradation is threatening to destroy the planet and there is a world economic slump not seen since the 1930s, the Nobel Prize givers recognise the work of two economists on how to make the auctions of commodities, land and services more efficient.
Nemonte Nenquimo, lauded by Leonardo DiCaprio for her work protecting Ecuador’s Amazon, speaks about her life, activism and motherhood.
The dramatic expansion of intellectual property rights represents a new stage in commodification that threatens to make virtually everything bad about capitalism even worse.
Very few Americans seem to be aware of the context in which the US Declaration of Independence was written and of the men who wrote it and, more importantly, why it was written.
On the day of Bolivia’s presidential election, we look at the legacy of Evo Morales — who won power in South America’s poorest country, tripled its GDP, and lifted millions out of extreme poverty.
The SC judgment on designated protest spaces is not only un-implementable, but also profoundly elitist and anti-women.
Public pressure and the boycott should extend also to those members of India Inc. who continue to support these channels with advertisements.
The NSSO’s time use survey reveals striking facts about how men and women in India spend their time very differently, with women hugely burdened by unpaid work.
Seeing merit as a ‘neutral’ ideology justifies exclusion and discrimination; mass examinations like the JEE reinforce the perception of merit as a measure of individual and relative ability divorced from social structural factors.
Justice Lokur addresses a gradual erosion of one of our most precious fundamental rights – the inalienable right to freedom of speech and expression, an erosion that is leading to the gradual destruction of our human right to dissent and protest.
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