In Today’s India, Some Will Not be Indians No Matter How Many Documents They Possess
With processes like the revision of electoral rolls and the NRC, the State is going further down the path of sorting out who can and cannot belong in New India.
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India’s Cotton Conundrum: Modi Government Sacrificing Interest of Farmers – 3 Articles
‘India’s Cotton Conundrum: When Policy Turns Farmers Into Casualties’: India’s cotton crisis is not inevitable. It is political. And it demands urgent course correction. Also: ‘By Ending Import Duty on Cotton Amid US Pressure, Modi Govt is Sacrificing the Interests of Indian Farmers’; and: ‘AIKS Calls Upon Farmers to Protest Decision to Scrap 11% Import Duty on Raw Cotton’.
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This Diwali Gift Won’t Relieve the Economic Slump
The Government proposes to reduce the rates of GST. This is a tacit admission that the low consumption levels of the people are the underlying cause of the slump in the economy. However, the manner in which this rate reduction is being carried out will not boost aggregate demand, but in fact slightly dampen it further.
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A Brief History of India’s Education System, Part 3B: Neoliberalism and School Education
Fourth part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the impact of the neoliberal policies implemented in India during the period 1991-2014 on the school education system.
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Ethanol Blending: Supposed Benefits are Questionable – 2 Articles
‘Should India’s Ethanol Blending Policy be Continued?’: The policy is being used as a blunt instrument whose main supposed benefits are questionable. Also: ‘The Hidden Costs of Ethanol Blending’.
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Is There Any ‘Honour’ in Killing?; ‘(Dis)Honour Killings’ in Tamil Nadu – 2 Articles
‘Is There Any ‘Honour’ in Killing?’: Despite Supreme Court orders to protect inter-caste couples, honour killings continue. Why haven’t Central and State governments enacted special laws? Also: ‘Tamil Nadu’s Journey from Social Justice Towards “(Dis)Honour Killings”’.
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Where the Law Forgets the Maker
Indian law creates a legal vacuum around traditional designs by failing to recognise collective creation, generational knowledge and community-based craftsmanship. This makes cultural appropriation cases like Prada’s use of the Kolhapuri chappal design difficult to prosecute.
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NCERT’s ‘Partition Horrors’: Shameless Exercise in White-Washing Crimes of Hindu Mahasabha and RSS
The NCERT has released a ‘Special Module’ titled as ‘Partition Horrors’, as a supplementary resource for Classes 6 to 8. It is actually not supplementary resource material for searching the guilty men / organisations for Partition of India as claimed but presents an altogether sectarian narrative as per the wishes of NCERT’s RSS masters.
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Does India Have the Moral Capacity to Hear Someone Like Syeda Hameed?
Who wants to understand Syeda Hameed’s pain today? Does India still have the desire to listen to someone like her?
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Why the Sale of a Girl Child in Odisha’s Poorest Region Should Alarm the BJP Govt
In one year of the BJP rule in Odisha, there have been multiple and recurring incidents of atrocities on women including the recent death of 20-year-old college student who set herself ablaze because her complaints, accusing her teacher of sexual harassment, were not acted upon by authorities.
