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This is a retrogressive draft Bill, which will boost the monopoly power of a handful of telecom companies over the internet and legalise the government’s 360-degree surveillance of citizens.
Tagore’s play Mukta-Dhara foretells the manner in which people across the country have been losing their freedom — those uprooted by development quite obviously so, those ‘benefitting’ from it (mostly living in cities) more subtly and invisibly. This is the ecologically fatal price of ‘progress’, which Rabindranath anticipated in much of his work.
Their health, and the health of their children, is put at risk because they lack the documents needed to obtain the biometric number.
As a result of this, the world’s sources of freshwater, representing one of the planetary boundaries designated by natural science, are being monopolized as natural capital by relatively few companies who will be able to charge market rents for the ecosystem services.
The current fall in the rupee is structural in nature and hence non-transient. It has been caused by two specific factors neither of which is transient: one is a widening of the current deficit, and the other is a net outflow of finance from the economy to dollars or dollar-denominated assets.
Netaji was very clear that religion had no place in public life and could not be used to unite Indians.
Privatisation of grain procurement and cap on procurement subsidies are among the ideas being floated.
The Right to Food Campaign stands in solidarity with the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha’s national call for action across the country to revive the proper functioning of MGNREGA.
The latest GDP figures are a window dressing under which the economy is unmistakably tottering and the growth trajectory since the pandemic has been ramshackle at best. Incomes are also declining, which means that chances of economic recovery are dim.
They believe they own everything – and owe us nothing.
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