Joshimath Residents Return to Their “Unsafe” Homes, Four Months After the Sinking Crisis
Due to the decreasing facilities in the relief camps, people deprived of their food and all household facilities are returning to their disaster-hit homes.
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New Forest Laws and ‘Development’ Push: A Prelude to a ‘Land Grab’ in India’s North-East?
The root of the violence in Manipur can be traced to measures that threaten the rights of tribal communities over land and resources.
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Civil Society Groups Urge Govt Not to Join Trade Pillar of IPEF
Several civil society organisations and NGOs have urged the government not to join in the talks of the trade pillar of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) for Prosperity, stating that it can impact India’s policy space to develop critical economic sectors.
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India’s GST Experience
At the start of May 2023, the central government released yet another statement exuding optimism about the progress of India’s Goods and Services Tax regime, based on the previous month’s collections. An analysis of India’s GST performance.
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The Deplorable Work Conditions Behind Harrods’ $7,000 ‘Ambootia Snow Mist’ Darjeeling Tea
The story of tea is a story of interconnected continents and expanding systems of capitalist and imperialist exploitation stretching their tendrils across the globe over the course of hundreds of years—and the people bearing the brunt of it all have always been the workers on the plantations.
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Economy Must be ‘at Service of Life’: Resisting Debt and Neocolonialism in Africa
An interrogation of the vicious cycle of debt rooted in neocolonial extraction that continues to trap countries across the African continent
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Labour in ‘Amrit Kaal’
A letter by a teacher to his economics students on May Day: Workers are now in the situation they were in in the 19th century, before their struggles worldwide won various rights – to form unions, to enjoy job security, to earn minimum wages, and so on.
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Enabling Selective Illegality Behind the Façade of Democratic Functioning
The SC appointed Expert Committee on the Adani-Hindenburg issue hides behind a technicality to conclude that there was no regulatory failure. Behind the façade of democracy and functioning of the democratic institutions, illegality is being selectively allowed to consolidate the ruling party’s power – financial, social, and political.
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‘Be Your Own Boss!’: The Myth of Unemployment as Opportunity
There is a myth in capitalism that anybody and everybody—with the necessary drive and ambition—can make a go of starting their own business. Statistically, that is just not the case.
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Budget 2023–24: What Is in it for the People? Part 6: Cut in Social Sector Expenditures, Transfers to States
Despite the already abysmally low social sector expenditures of the country, the Centre has made huge cuts in its spending on the people to compensate for the huge increase in capex (and the meagre increase in budget outlay).
