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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The social sector expenditures of the Modi Government are not just far lower than the developed countries, they are even lower than its peer countries. And as regards education, the Modi Government has cut the budget for school education by a huge 40% over the 9 budgets it has presented so far.
Under the distressing times of COVID-19, the Rajasthan Budget 2022-23 guarantees 100 days of employment for families in urban areas. However, the Central government has not paid heed to demands for such a scheme and has even reduced allocations for MGNREGA.
There is a common misconception that the term imperialism is no longer relevant now. The essence of the relationship of imperialism lies in the control over the world’s resources, including land-use, by the metropolitan powers. Neo-liberal globalisation has meant that control over these third world assets have been returned to metropolitan capital.
Gujarat in 2002 was already living in the post-truth era, much before the world started using this term. And Gujarat then was a sign of what India, as a whole, was to become.
We must remember that once you open the Pandora’s box of war it unleashes dark and murderous forces no one can control. I know this from personal experience. The match has been lit. The tragedy is that there was never any dispute about how the conflagration would start.
The fight between United States and its NATO allies on one side and Russia on the other has become a no-holds barred struggle that is being fought with tooth and claw, as hidden racial and religious prejudices lying just below the surface have welled to the surface in the Western world.
Gandhi famously argued that Bhagavad Gita needs to be seen as a metaphor of internal war, and has nothing to do with violence. Western scholars argue that the book promotes violence. To understand this contradictory view, we need to examine what is the problem to which Krishna offers a solution.
The U.S. government seeks to bring Assange to the U.S. to be tried under the Espionage Act for soliciting, obtaining, and then publishing classified information–in other words, precisely the work of an investigative journalist. It is journalism, therefore, that Assange is being prosecuted for.
Every second Indian was born and raised in times of aggressive majoritarianism, and also in neoliberal India, with no memory of another country, as it was imagined, and imperfectly lived.
The workers, who are crucial for keeping critical health and nutrition programmes running, are not adequately compensated and protected against Covid-19.
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