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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High Food Prices Destroying Family Nutrition in Already Stressed Times
Prices of basic sources of protein like meat, eggs, pulses, and cooking oils have zoomed up, as has the cost of cooking gas.
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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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U.S. Again Bombs Nations on Other Side of the World in ‘Self-Defense’
The U.S. is again illegally bombing nations on the other side of the planet which it has invaded and occupied and branded this murderous aggression as “defensive”.
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National Strike in Colombia Completes Two Months
The national strike, which began in rejection of a tax reform bill, has transformed into a national struggle against the far-right government of President Ivan Duque and his neoliberal and oppressive policies.
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Cuba’s Vaccine Shield and the Five Monopolies that Structure the World
We live in a time of ‘three apartheids’ – those of food, money, and medicine, which are a result of the control that a handful of monopoly companies exercise over the global economy. Cuba’s development of five different vaccine candidates, which it plans to export to countries around the world, challenges the medicine apartheid.
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Bharat Bhushan Babasaheb
The unique life of Bharat Bhushan Ambedkar has become a new source of inspiration for devotees. From it has emerged a new deity and the lamp that will be burning in its temple in this land of temples will be seen from all sides of the nation and from distant corners of the world.
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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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Refugees are Not Illegal
The influx of people from Myanmar in the wake of the military coup do not consist of illegal migrants but refugees escaping the brutalities of a military rule. In accordance with basic principles of international human rights, India should extend all humanitarian assistance to them.
