It’s Here! The Biggest Sale in India’s History
The Modi government’s National Monetisation Pipleline will hand over India’s key infrastructure to private entities for a song.
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How Important Is MSP-Based Procurement
The problem with the MSP is not that it is of marginal benefit to farmers. The problem lies in the inadequate spread of the procurement apparatus to cover more crops and a larger geographical region, the timing of the procurement operations and in some cases the unremunerative prices offered.
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Interview: Ashwini Deshpande on the Need for Indian Economists to Grapple with Discrimination
The noted economist speaks of how the idea of examining discrimination through economics has changed over the past two decades in India, why much more needs to be done to examine the biases of the field, and her discomfort with the pervasive myth of “merit” in India.
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The Violent Video from a Recent Eviction Drive Should be a Moment of Reckoning for Assamese Society
In a state with a tortured history of anti-immigrant resentment, every policy decision can have potentially seismic effects. Assam needs a strong movement to counter the actions of a casteist, communal state.
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By Attacking the Mughals, Adityanath Is Erasing the History of His Own Nath Sampradāy
All through the Mughal rule, various Naths, including those of Gorakhpur, received gifts and grants from the emperors. Official temple literature also attests to this.
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On Purushottam Agrawal’s Kabir Das
Book Review: Purushottam Agrawal, ‘Akath Kahani Prem ki: Kabir ki kavita aur unka samay’.
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Press Release: India Put on Sale by the Ruling Regime at the Centre
The so called ‘National Monetisation Pipeline’ announced by govt is nothing but a nefarious design to hand over all infrastructural assets to private hands virtually free for revenue generation by them without any obligation of capital cost and share a small part of that huge revenue with the Govt.
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Corporatization of Agri and Retail Trade Will Cause Huge Employment Crisis
In the name of economic reforms, the government is promoting corporate interests: the farm laws are meant to benefit large agribusiness corporations; 100% FDI in food retail will enable companies such as Amazon to enter food retail, and destroy small and medium retail traders.
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Farmers Prepare for Historic Bandh on Sept 27 – Four Articles
Ground Down by Hardship, Farmers Ready for Historic Bandh on Sept 27; Mass Mobilisation of Farmers in UP for Bharat Bandh; Reports from Punjab and Odisha; Farmers’ Protest Spreads to Avadh and Purvanchal.
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From Remote Villages to Metro Cities, Scheme Workers Strike Work for Regularisation of Services
Led by the Joint Platform of Scheme Workers Federations, ASHAs, along with workers engaged in anganwadis, mid-day meal scheme and National Health Mission also demanded a legislation on ‘right to universal healthcare’.
