The Urgent Need for an Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme
Millions of urban Indian residents are struggling without livelihood opportunities. A national urban employment scheme needs to be put in place immediately.
‘This Is Not the India We Fought For,’ Says a 110-Year-Old Protesting Farmer
Gandharv Singh sees stark similarities between the colonial British government he had once resisted and the Modi government he resists today.
Forgetting Freedom
The three ashrams of free thought that are at risk in New India.
Democracy, Distance, Difference, and Disrespect
Democracy is the only form of governance that cultivates the arts and crafts of governance at a respectful distance and always aims at the achievement of what the philosopher John Rawls called “overlapping consensus” for “reasonable pluralism”.
India’s New IT Rules Paving Way for Legitimised Surveillance
As the Indian government is confronted with a global snooping scandal with over 300 journalists, politicians and bureaucrats on the list of those surveilled by the state, the Modi government had intensified its bid to rampage through the country’s latest Internet Technology laws.
Fortification of PDS Rice to Stem Nutrient Deficiency Unnecessary, Benefits 5 Big Firms – Two Articles
Fortification of PDS Rice to Stem Nutrient Deficiency Unnecessary: Paper; Fortified Rice Scheme to Create Rs 3,000-crore Market for Just Five Big Firms.
No Testing Kits, Covid Centres Shut, Oxygen Miles Away: Rural Healthcare In Covid Times
In rural Nandurbar, some primary health centres do not even have rapid testing kits; Covid Care Centres have been shut after the second wave abated, and oxygen access is miles away.
The Neoliberal Reforms of 1991 Didn’t Work as Claimed
There is a common trope, fed especially to generations born after 1991, that economic progress and modernization in India really occurred only after ‘liberalizing’ economic reforms were introduced three decades ago. This is a travesty of the truth.
Why Anganwadi and ASHAs are Essential Workers and Not Volunteers
Anganwadi workers and ASHA workers are technically volunteers and therefore paid an honorarium below the minimum wage, but actually they are essential workers, who managed the State’s on-ground pandemic response. Also: 1.93 lakh posts of Anganwadi workers lying vacant across country.
Indian Women’s Hockey’s Fairytale Story Ridden with Personal Sacrifices
Every member in the Women’s Hockey Olympic Squad in Tokyo has been through personal struggles that can’t be measured in words.