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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
In a recent speech, PM Modi stated that agriculture is at the centre of India’s economic policy. He also highlighted the initiatives being taken by his government in promoting natural and climate-resilient farming. We examine these claims in the context of the eleven budgets presented by the Modi government since 2014.
In this article, we first discuss the National Education Policy 2020, and then the budget allocations for school and higher education in the eleven budgets presented by the Modi Government from 2014-15 to 2024-25.
Neoliberalism has empowered India’s big capital to control the state, reversing an earlier relationship. Capital, once subordinate and nationally defined, now dominates and defines the nation, using the state to advance its global business interests.
A critical appraisal and some suggestions on the Karnataka Platform Based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Bill, 2023.
In Northeast India, a controversial hydropower dam moves toward completion – causing great uncertainty for downstream dwellers whose livelihoods depend on the river.
Privatising Visakhapatnam Steel undermines the interests of Andhra Pradesh and the larger cause of social justice. For the past four years, the people of Andhra Pradesh and steel plant workers have waged a continuous struggle to protect it.
Last week, a mass protest movement in Serbia brought down the country’s government, inaugurating the biggest challenge to the more than decade-old rule of the authoritarian president, Aleksandar Vučić.
‘The Great March of Hope: Gaza’s Defiance against Erasure’; ‘The Life Expectancy of Palestinians Fell by 11.5 years in the First Three Months of the Genocide’; ‘The Western Way of Genocide’; and: ‘In the West Bank, Another “Gaza Genocide” Unfolds’.
‘After the Fall: Hope Amid the Ruins of Post-Assad Syria’: Sudden regime collapse shows persistence of the Arab revolutions amid challenges from both local and outside forces of imperialism and reaction. Also: ‘The Lion Has Fallen!’
In light of the mass anti-austerity protests in Kenya and Argentina in 2024, a historical analysis of the neo-colonial relationship between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and these two countries.
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