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Rahul Pandey, Sandeep Pandey In a single stroke of decisions, the Indian government has revoked Articles 370 and 35A, bifurcated the state of Jammu and Kashmir into J&K and Ladakh, and reduced their status to Union Territories. While there are questions about the legal soundness of these decisions, their moral illegitimacy lies in the fact…
10 Trade Unions Call for Nationwide Protest Against Labour Codes on August 2 On July 24, 2019, ten central trade unions gave a call for holding nationwide protests on August 2 against the government’s move to introduce two labour codes in parliament, claiming that their objections to the draft laws were ignored totally. “Central trade…
Avijit Pathak “Most learning happens casually, and even most intentional learning is not the result of programmed instruction,” said Ivan Illich. It is not easy to remain secure with power. The intoxication of power breeds insecurity. And hence, it is not surprising that each regime of power has its own discourse of education through which…
Neeti Biyani and Sakshi Rai Income and wealth inequality in India is deepening. The current regime, despite its promises to tackle black money, has chosen a contradictory course of action which has bolstered financial secrecy in the country, further widening already existing structural inequalities. The extent of income and wealth inequality in India is…
Aseem Shrivastava A year in which the country celebrates the Mahatma’s 150th birth anniversary offers us a timely opportunity to consider his criticisms of modernity and juxtapose them with those of the other towering figure of his generation, Rabindranath Tagore, whose 78th death anniversary is on August 7. Much is made nowadays of the differences…
In a bizarre turn of events, the labour minister in Modi government, Santosh Kumar Gangwar, announced at a press conference that the new floor level minimum wage for the country will be Rs 178 per day. This translates to Rs 4,628 per month. This is bizarre on several counts. First, the official declaration of the…
Rahul Gandhi Warns of Institutional Take Over of India Countercurrents Collective Taking responsibility for the Congress party’s poor performance in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi, on, 3 July, 2019, resigned from the post of the Congress President. He posted a four-page letter on Twitter, officially announcing his resignation as the Congress President. In…
National Emergency was imposed on the country by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on June 25-26, 1975, and it lasted for 19 months. This period is considered as ”dark times’ for Indian democratic polity. Indira Gandhi claimed that Jaiprakash Narayan’s call to the armed forces to disobey the ‘illegal’ orders of Congress rulers had created…
The last sun of the century sets amidst the blood-red colours of the West and the whirlwind of hatred. The naked passion of self-love of Nations, in its drunken delirium of greed is dancing to the clash of steel and the howling verses of vengeance. Rabindranath Tagore, The Sunset of the Century The forebodings voiced…
Thirty-four year old G. Manimaran is resentful when anyone brings up the topic of Chennai’s water crisis. In his analyses, water is not the problem, the city of Chennai is. Manimaran’s village, Padalam in Kanchipuram district, is 75 km from Chennai and located on the banks of the Palar, a river once famed for its…
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