Govt Plans to Sell Foodgrain Meant for Poor to Private Sector, at Subsidised Rates
Rice from the Food Corporation of India will be sold at a subsidy to private distilleries while India fares badly on hunger indicators.
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The Dubious Record of the UN Champion of the Earth
In 2018, PM Narendra Modi was awarded the United Nations ‘Champion of the Earth’ award. This, despite the fact that among the first things the Modi government set to work on after assuming office for the first time in 2014 was dismantling the laws that protect the environment.
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Persons with Disabilities Denied Adequate Resources
Stagnant funding, low allocations, badly-planned policies: people who live with disability deserve better.
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Thinking with Gandhi: The Meaning of Moral Courage and the Evil of Inequality
If we think with Gandhi, then we can come to nonviolence only after passing through two other terms first – courage and evil. An account of nonviolence that does not spring from an understanding of courage and evil runs away from what is most thought-provoking in Gandhi.
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Our Nation, Our Constitution: A Layperson’s Understanding
This article is an attempt to enthuse readers to make a more careful reading of our nation’s primary document, the Constitution, the Song of India.
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Lakshadweep: The New Administration’s Call and the Impending Ecological Crisis
This article is an attempt to bring forth the ecological and environmental disasters that await over a fragile ecosystem, as a consequence of the new rules and regulations of the recently appointed administrator of Lakshadweep, Praful Khoda Patel.
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Holbrooke’s Revenge: How Modi Led the Americans Back into Kashmir
The ending of autonomy in Kashmir reconstituted a conflict that was politically frozen in many ways for decades and has set it off in directions that can increase Washington’s diplomatic costs in the region.
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Pew Survey on Religion Shows Indians are Hypocrites
The claim of Indians that they respect all religions does not square up with their attitudes towards religious communities to which they do not belong.
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Three Poems
You Will Not Speak; One Day I Saw My Girl; A Spark
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Modi and Shah’s Humiliating Walk Back on Kashmir Is Proof of Their Failed Policy
That the Centre’s plans had spectacularly failed was clear last year as militancy continued unabated, there was no progress on attracting business investments and major Kashmiri parties performed better in the DDC elections than the BJP’s allies.
