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If an amendment to a 54-yr-old law is passed by Parliament in its ongoing session, you will not be able to—without a birth certificate—enrol for education, get a driving licence or passport, be a voter, get married, get a government or public-sector job. It will make life harder for millions.
While the Bill does not grant any major social security benefits, except a grievance redress mechanism, it creates a framework for future schemes through the creation of a dedicated welfare board.
The government claims that the PM’s health insurance scheme has ‘saved crores of families’ from such expenditure. But there are no data to support this claim, and studies indicate India’s most marginalised people are not benefitting, while insurance companies are.
To be indigenous is to be severely marginalised in economy, politics, institutionalised knowledge, and institutionalised religion.
Gandhi’s thinking on caste must be frameworked within his opposition to capitalist modernity and its destructive effects on the peasant. His ambivalences on caste owe to his efforts to integrate his idealized philosophical stances with his responses to the contingencies of the freedom struggle.
Like Tagore, the scientist sought to blend an inclusive, non-jingoistic nationalism with an openness to the world.
The coup in Niger follows similar coups in Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea. Each of these coups was led by military officers angered by the presence of French and U.S. troops and by the economic crises inflicted on their countries. All three countries have opposed Western intervention in Niger.
“Aung San Suu Kyi, the iconic figure of Myanmarese politics, has been moved from prison to house arrest. This may seem a baby step, but make no mistake, the journey of a thousand steps begins with one step, as the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu had said,” says the author.
Last week’s Russia-Africa summit highlighted their shared interest to cooperate against Western dominance. While Moscow leads the fight, Africans are eager to play a role in shaping the new multipolar order.
A new campaign is mobilizing communities across the Democratic Republic of Congo to stop the fossil fuel industry’s expansion with creative nonviolent action.
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