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“In February 2023, the government granted a lease to Vedanta to carry out bauxite mining in our hills, without taking our opinion or consent. We hope that you will take measures to put an end to this mindless process of mining and deforestation”, write the people of these villages of Odisha.
While the conflict between Israel and Hamas rages on, claiming upwards of 25,000 Gazan lives to date, Indian workers have been permitted to take flights for work in Israel, bypassing the eMigrate system, the mandatory safety measures intended to protect and regulate labour migration.
Carnival games are rigged in favour of their owners. It seems ostensibly easy to win. But it isn’t. So was the Hindenburg expose on Adani. The evidence they poured out, and the zeal with which the Supreme Court took it up, convinced all that Adani’s dream run was over. But on its first anniversary, he is almost back on the top.
Last year, 2023, marked the 125th birth anniversary of epoch-defining German playwright and practitioner Bertolt Brecht. His words carry a sense of immediacy for us, so striking are the parallels between Nazi Germany and present-day India.
A flawed education system that treats students as numbers, not minds, is taking a toll on adolescent mental health. Do we have a solution?
“I’ve not known the restraints now being imposed on the academic freedom to exist on the IIM campus during the last five years. But things have changed”, says the author.
‘Ignore the Spin, Incomes, Consumption and Private Investment Have Stagnated’: The FM’s budget speech reiterated Modi govt’s achievements over the past decade; facts have never come in the way of Modi’s penchant for weaving self-congratulatory narratives. Also: ‘The K is Indian GDP’s Reality: Why Deny?’
Hybrid Bt cotton, the only commercialised GM crop in India, has failed conclusively. Based on this failure and the evidence on GM crops to date, the Union of India’s proposal to commercialise herbicide-tolerant (HT) mustard will destroy not just Indian mustard agriculture but citizens’ health.
The bombardment of Palestinians in Gaza continues. Amongst the dead are many of Palestine’s painters, poets, writers, and sculptors. One of the striking features of Palestinian life over the past 76 years since the Nakba of 1948 has been the ongoing richness of Palestinian cultural production.
In recent years, the surging violence in Ecuador has made international headlines. Ecuador wasn’t always this cliche of a narco-state. It was once hailed as an ‘island of peace’, a security success story. What explains its spiral into chaos?
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