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Food prices are rising due to a combination of an engineered food crisis for geopolitical reasons, financial speculation by hedge funds, and profiteering by global grain trade conglomerates. In addition, agribusiness forms are using this crisis as an opportunity to promote GE technologies.
In the wake of the Modi government forming a commission to reevaluate reservations for Dalits, Ambedkarite intellectuals are debating whether Muslim and Christian Dalits should be included in the Scheduled Caste list.
Moved by the death of Indra Kumar Meghwal at the hands of his teacher, a poet wields his pen and lashes at the age-old caste system that keeps many at the receiving end of injustice
There is much celebration of Rishi Sunak, the new UK Prime Minister, who was born to parents who had emigrated from undivided India. A brief history of another type of emigrant Indians — the over 12 lakh Indians who were sent as indentured labour to various parts of the British Empire.
Ecologist Debal Deb speaks about farmers’ autonomy, the importance of native seeds to material and food culture, and the government’s approach to sustainable agriculture.
India suffered not one partition but many. On the one hand India was partitioned into two nation states. But along with the country, two major regions – Punjab and Bengal, evolved through many centuries, were also partitioned – this partition of the regions was probably much more serious with extremely tragic consequences.
On the role and contribution of India’s youngest martyr Baji Rout who was just twelve years old when he laid down his life for the freedom of our country.
Falk addresses the events surrounding Mahsa Amini’s September 13th detention and reported death three days later as well as the meaning of her Kurdish identity.
The powers-that-be have gone through a range of administrative and political contortions to ensure, before any elections happen, that the ruling party will win.
In April 1941, communal riots broke out in Ahmedabad. Gandhiji’s secretary, Mahadev Desai, wrote a long report on the riots, which remains unpublished. Guha discusses this report, as it is not only very moving, but also speaks directly to the communal situation in India today.
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