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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
According to the World Inequality Report 2022, the levels of wealth and income inequalities in India are among the worst that prevail in the leading countries of the world.
Press Release: The Shaheen Bagh movement never ended, it continues to inspire us in our ongoing struggles to defend democratic rights and assert equal citizenship. On its 2nd anniversary, let us remember this powerful struggle, and organise solidarity actions across the country on 16 Dec 2021.
A recent report by International IDEA, an inter-governmental think tank, finds that “70% of the global population now live either in non-democratic regimes or in democratically backsliding countries”. The report cites Brazil, India and the United States as the biggest backsliders globally.
The government of PM Modi is increasingly bypassing Parliament through executive fiat by promulgating an average of 11 ordinances a year. Legislative scrutiny is at its lowest point: from 70% of bills referred to committees in the previous Lok Sabha to 11% during the current.
The last night at Singhu; Tikri Border: The day the farmers’ protest ended; Police brutality, FIRs and a hostile Khattar govt: what Haryana farmers overcame; As farmers head back home, they’re taking unity and a renewed faith in democracy with them; Six major phases that defined the farmers’ movement.
The year 1961 culminated with the fervent hope for concrete progress towards disarmament, but that hope is severely dented even sixty years on.
Reckless, short-sighted, rapid and uncontrolled changes are being made in the Himalayas which are causing incalculable loss and damage to an already fragile ecosystem.
The failure of the Bandung Conference to launch a permanent Asian-African nations’ organisation was a sign that the writ of the pro-militarist lobby within the Asian and African countries had ultimately prevailed.
It is not only atrocities on the marginalised groups that tells us the truth about a brutal system but equally its everyday workings as experienced by its most marginal sections.
In Roorkee, Uttarakhand, over 200 people, including familiar faces and neighbours, attacked a church during Sunday prayers on 3 October. Instead of the attackers being arrested, the late pastor’s family faces a criminal case.
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