Rising Farmer Suicides Leaves Families Adrift as Vidarbha Grapples With Multiple Crises
The crisis is well known and has been written about for decades now. Government intervention has taken place but little has changed.
Industrial Fires, Blasts are New Normal in ‘Vibrant’ Gujarat: Disasters in Motion?
Why do we see an increase in industrial accidents? There will be and may be specific causes in each incident. But broadly it is the result of conducive social environment created by the people in power.
Linguistic Imperialism: BJP Pronouncements on Promoting Hindi Spark Outrage
The BJP’s periodic pronouncements on making Hindi the single national language are proof of its inability to understand that India’s enormous linguistic diversity is key to building a common cultural heritage.
Is Kashmir Moving Towards Anarchy? – Two Articles
Processes unleashed since August 2019 are bearing fruit that favour BJP, not Kashmiris or the Pandit community, who are vigorously challenging Right-Wing communalism. Also: Yasin Malik Could Have Been the Muivah of Kashmir.
India: A Linguistic Civilisation
Unlike Europe, the speakers of hundreds of different languages in India agreed to belong to a single nation because the Constitution promised them freedom of expression, making it mandatory on the state to encourage languages ‘without harming other languages’.
The Coming Disruption in Higher Education in India
The New Education Policy does not look to build on existing strengths in higher education. Instead, its aim is total disruption: a drastic modification in the meaning of higher education itself and the facilitation of edtech.
In Today’s India, the Law Is Being Subverted to Create Social Unrest
Cases like the one on the Gyanvapi Mosque show how the legal system is being used to promote disorder.
Two Crore Women in India Quit Workforce in 2017-22
More than 50% of Indians of legal working age don’t want a job due to the lack of suitable employment: CMIE
Activists Object to Distribution of Fortified Rice Through PDS
Experts worry that with the government aggressively promoting a “singular reductionist corporate-controlled silver bullet solution” like fortified rice, a myriad of diverse local and natural solutions will get neglected and even eroded.
NFHS-5 Data Busts Right-Wing Myth of Indian Vegetarianism
Non-vegetarian food consumers have increased in India, including in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states like Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, as per data released by the recent National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5).