One Year Later, Whither Atmanirbharta in Defence?
Just 12 months after being announced by India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the raft of defence industry reforms and policies lie in tatters.
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UK: Conservatives under Johnson Move to Nationalise Rail
The Indian government’s plans to unbundle the railways and privatise its key parts mimic the UK privatisation model. Now the UK government has admitted to its failure. India should seriously reconsider whether it should go ahead with its privatisation plans.
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How Should We Re-Imagine a Nava Keralam?
The description of Nava Keralam or New Kerala Model, by Thomas Isaac, Kerala’s Finance Minister in the previous Cabinet, has at its core, an infrastructure-led approach: rapid, widespread and extensive construction. Several sane voices in Kerala are urging for a reconsideration of this model.
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How Caste Oppression Is Institutionalised in India’s Sanitation Jobs
Despite modernisation, waste management remains one of the most underpaid and dangerous jobs in the country.
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We Also Made History
Originally published in Marathi in 1989, Meenakshi Moon and Urmila Pawar’s ‘We Also Made History’ details the history of women’s participation in the Dalit movement led by B.R. Ambedkar.
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What You Need to Know About India’s Baffling New Vaccine Policy
The new policy allows the Centre to claim that it has done what the states asked for, while allowing it to shift blame on the states for shortages. Plus extracts from 3 articles: The Real Cost of Vaccinating Everyone; Serum Institute’s Vaccine Costliest in Global Market; State-Owned Vaccine Manufacturers Sit Idle.
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Modi Govt’s Vaccine Diplomacy Unravels, within India and Abroad
The root problem is the Modi Govt’s obsessive rivalry and one-upmanship vis-a-vis China, to display that India is shining better than China. It is a futile effort, as an original is always worth more than a copy.
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‘System Has Collapsed’: Global Media Minces No Words on India’s COVID Crisis
The surge in India comes at a time when the world is seeing the first signs of recovery from the yearlong crisis; it has led to renewed global focus on the image-conscious Narendra Modi government.
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COVID-19: India’s Super-Rich Scramble and Leave for UK with Surge in Cases
Eight private jets – four from Mumbai, three from Delhi and one from Ahmedabad – carrying some of India’s super-rich left the country for the United Kingdom and landed at the Luton airport in London on Friday – the day travel restrictions to the UK kicked in.
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‘Forbes’, India and Pandora’s Pandemic Box
In a year the GDP contracted 7.7%, as we brace for another round of ‘reverse’ migrations and as farmers wait unheeded at the gates of Delhi, Indian billionaires reached record levels of wealth.
