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‘The Supreme Court’s Remarks on Trade Unions Are Not in Conformity with the Constitution’; ‘Domestic Workers, Women’s Labour, and the Language of the Courts’; ‘Incinerated in the Name of Growth: The Price of India’s War on Trade Unions’.
Mumbai’s public bus transport, the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST), once considered a model for bus services in the country, is now in complete shambles. Yet this situation was foreseen and was publicly warned against more than seven years ago, when the authorities took the fatal decision to privatise BEST’s core operations.
‘“Indianisation” of Syllabi is Hollowing Out Knowledge in Our Universities’; ‘Gagged Campuses, Hollowed Classrooms: The Universities in India Today’; ‘Cash Crunch, Research Void and Guest Faculty Surge: The Collapse of Social Sciences in India’; ‘The Cost of Learning: Protests Mount Across Universities as Fee Hikes Deepen Crisis of Accessibility’.
The merging of faith with State has not worked out well anywhere.
The philosopher argues that in modern liberal states, secularism has become a cudgel used by elites to oppose multicultural accommodations for religious minorities.
Despite high-speed trains and higher safety spending, Indian Railways continue to battle chronic delays. Data and experts point to aging infrastructure, poor maintenance, and congestion.
Diversified farming can resolve ecological and monetary concerns but an agricultural transformation is impossible without better government support. Part II: Thirsty Crops, Tired Soil: Vicious Loop Threatens India’s Food and Water Security. Part III: The Fertiliser Addiction of Indian Farming is a Crisis.
‘Fighting for Our Existence: In Maharashtra’s Palghar, Huge Protests Against Development Plans’: Fisherfolk and farmers fear they will lose their land and livelihoods to plans to build the Vadhvan port and a ‘fourth Mumbai’ in the district. Also: ‘Maharashtra: 50,000-Strong Adivasi, Farmer March to Palghar on Indefinite Dharna for Land Rights’.
‘A Low-Grade Fever, a Relentless Sadness: Being Muslim in the New India That is Bharat’: This fear that rubs away insidiously at the idea of belonging must at least be acknowledged. Also: ‘Kashmir: Belonging, Conditional’; and: ‘Against Hate Script: How Ordinary Citizens Are Reclaiming Public Space’.
Tipu stands very tall in the scale of religious tolerance. The half-baked propaganda of the communal forces is trying to divide communities.
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