Not All Rides are Equal: The Daily Exploitation of Uber Drivers
Exploited, underpaid and unrepresented, Uber drivers face stark disparities within, even as the company’s profits soar.
Who Does a Good Crop Benefit? Not Farmers. Two Articles.
A good harvest is no longer good for farmers. It benefits traders, hoarders, middlemen, and corporations more. Without government safeguards through MSP and public procurement, the “free-market” system is rigged against farmers.
The “Hindu Rate of Growth”: Then and Now
There is a fundamental difference between the comparatively low growth-rate of the earlier dirigiste period (pre-1990s) and that of the current neoliberal period.
A New Dawn? Can India Reverse Its Staggering Inequality?
How long will India’s working people live with a policy regime that concentrates unimaginable levels of wealth in a few hands and leaves millions of people struggling for food, healthcare, decent schooling, work, and pensions when they age?
Hindutva Development Model vs Dravidian Rights-Based Welfare: Looking Beyond the ‘Freebies’ Debate
Hindutva has reduced citizens to passive political subjects where people devote themselves to the leader’s ascribed duties towards the nation’s development.
Modi Claims 2004 to 2014 Was India’s ‘Lost Decade’. Is That True?; Also: Rising Suicides Among Poor
The number of poor fell sharply during this earlier period, and has risen in recent years. Also: “Daily Wage Earners, Housewives Among Largest Categories of People to Die by Suicide in 2019-21.”
Documents Reveal Niti Aayog Pushed Govt to Privatise PDS, Slash Free Food Coverage, Subsidies; Also: 79% Indians Food Insecure
Niti Aayog has been the strongest opponent of expanding food security programmes. It has repeatedly sought to pare down and radically overhaul the public food distribution system, which gives subsidised rations. Also: 79% of Indian Households Experienced ‘Food Insecurity’ in 2021, Shows Survey.
Nikhil Dey on Budget Cuts to MGNREGA; Also: Does the Govt Want it to Become a Rotten Apple
The allocation has come down from Rs 1.11 lakh crore in FY’21 to Rs 60,000 crore for FY’24. The govt is destroying MGNREGA, to create a vulnerable population that could become modern forms of bonded labourers or, worse, enslaved people in a neoliberal economy.
Budget 2023 Has Chilling Implications for India’s People – 3 articles
It seems that the Narendra Modi government has decided, in an election year, that general elections can be fought and won without efforts to improve the material conditions of the bulk of the people, and even simply ignoring their suffering.
21 Indian Super-Rich Own More Wealth Than 70 Crore Indians Together!
While taxing the rich can help tackle shocking inequalities, what is really needed in India is complete overhaul of economic policies that serve only big corporates.