The Steady Immiseration of Labour
By the end of the 1990s, both capital and a willing state had eviscerated the labour movement. The death blow will be dealt in the 2020s.
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Farm Laws Reborn: Toxic Platter for India’s Farmers and Consumers
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a coalition of 40+ farmers’ unions, contends that the Centre is proposing to undermine the federal rights of state governments by surrendering India’s food security and compromising its national sovereignty under the slogan ‘One Nation, One Market’.
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Indians Being Deprived of their Right to Education?
The Central Government recently decided to abolish the “no-detention” policy for students in classes 5 and 8 in schools under its jurisdiction. The recent amendment, it is feared, may deprive a considerable section from poor and rural sections of a “Right” they seemed to be making all efforts to making maximum use of.
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Not All That’s Green Is a Forest
An analysis of the India State of Forest Report 2023 – which faced a year-long delay with no official explanation.
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The Curious Case of Strengthening Dollar, Falling Rupee
The primary cause of the rupee’s depreciation is the preference of the Indian rich to hold their wealth in the form of U.S. dollars rather than in Indian rupees. This gives rise to a persistent shift from rupees to dollars causing the rupee’s depreciation.
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US-India: Diamonds Are Not Forever
There is a saying that our dreams ought to be what define our individuality. As the English poet and philosopher William Blake put it in sharper focus, ‘No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings’. But the Modi Government’s diplomacy leaps out of Kautilya’s Arthashastra.
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Not Just Popcorn: Bizarre GST Rates Are Eating Into Middle Class’ Savings
As the curtains fell on 2024, FM Nirmala Sitharaman reminded Indians that after the feast comes the reckoning.
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Why a Town in MP is Resisting the Plan to Treat Toxic Waste from Bhopal’s Union Carbide Plant
Protests have broken out in Pithampur over fears that the treatment of refuse from the 1984 industrial disaster may pollute the environment.
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Women, Domestic Violence and the Dangerous Narrative Of ‘Misuse’
In a recent ruling, Justices B. Nagarathna and Kotiswar Singh of the Supreme Court stated that there is a “growing tendency” for women to misuse Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) — their observations risk perpetuating harmful stereotypes about women misusing the legal system.
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Goals Behind Trump’s Tariffs: Cut Taxes on Rich & Escalate New Cold War on China
Trump will use tariffs to one, justify cutting taxes even further on the rich; and two, to escalate the new cold war on China, which is a bipartisan gift to the Military-Industrial Complex that will only distract from the domestic problems caused by the U.S. ruling class and externalize the blame.
