India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Indians are already among the most overworked workers globally. Despite their long hours, Indian workers are not making much money. India had the lowest statutory minimum wage of any country in the Asia Pacific region, except for Bangladesh as of 2019.
More than half of the faculty positions reserved for OBCs in central institutions of higher education are vacant, while about 40% of those reserved for Scheduled Castes and Tribes also remain unfilled.
In the wake of International Women’s Day, the United Nations released a report that reveals one in three females worldwide, or around 736 million women, have been subjected to physical or sexual violence, mostly by intimate partners.
The TRIPS agreement awards pharmaceutical corporations the power to decide who lives and who dies, as well as what we will live on and what we will die from. Capitalism has made a business out of life and death.
India’s social sector expenditures are amongst the lowest among all major economies of the world. In this concluding part of our budget analysis of Union Budget 2021-22, we present proposals on how the Centre can more than double its social sector expenditures.
India’s top 1 percent in today’s “Billionaire Raj” have a similar share of the national income as the top 1 percent did under the British Raj. With Modi’s three farm laws, the “Billionaire Raj” is preparing to turn India back from a country of hunger to a country of famine.
The risks of private ownership and the advantages of public ownership make inducting foreign investment into and privatising insurance a completely irrational policy. Plus an extract from a pamphlet written in 2014 against privatisation of insurance.
Ninety-four years ago, on March 20, 1927, Babasaheb Ambedkar walked to the public water tank/pond – Chavdar tale – with fellow satyagrahis and drank water from a common property resource denied to the Dalit Untouchables.
If the institution cannot house a figure like Pratap Bhanu Mehta, then why does it exist?
12th March is the date of two significant anniversaries!
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