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From the North–South divide and linguistic identity to electoral boundary manipulation and federal balance, Yogendra Yadav explores the challenges confronting Indian democracy. He says that the opposition’s fear is absolutely justified.
The Cockroach Janta Party is now the voice of the resentment felt by Indian youth not only toward the incompetence, and even corruption, of those in power (which manifests itself in repeated exam leak scandals), but also and above all toward unemployment. Also, extract from: ‛We Are Cockroaches, We Outlived Dinosaurs’.
‛The Real NEET Crisis Lies Inside the System’: The cancellation and re-exam have exposed something larger than exam fraud: an education system growing more centralised, unequal, and hostile to students without coaching money, digital access, or second chances. Also: ‛India’s Exam Fraud Bubble: 148 Cases, One Conviction in 11 Years’.
‛The Continued Asphyxiation of India’s Public Health Budgets’: 50% of India’s citizens remain at the mercy of markets when it comes to healthcare, even as the Indian government remains far behind its goal to commit 2.5% of GDP to public health by 2025. Also: ‛Crushed by Cost’.
‛Sijimali: The Earth Is Not for Sale’: Our struggle is not only for our lives and livelihood. Our struggle is for the protection of mother earth, for the entire planet. Our fight is for the protection of all life species, fish and birds, sheep and goats, forests and streams. Also: ‛The Unmaking of Hasdeo: How Coal Is Reshaping a Forest and Its People’.
‛The Ruin of Cotton Farmers: Who Stands to Gain?’; ‛India’s Cotton Tariff Removal Reflects the Hollowness of Modi’s Austerity Push’: The textile ministry’s removal of the 11% cotton import tariff, amid US diplomatic pressures and Marco Rubio’s visit, risks domestic farm prices while making the industry dependent on foreign imports.
‛The Indus Waters Treaty and the Political Ethics of Survival’: A region that turns water into a weapon may ultimately discover that no border can contain the consequences of thirst. Also: ‛Water Is Becoming the Next India-Pakistan Flashpoint’.
Jamia was once built “stone by stone and sacrifice by sacrifice” during the anti-colonial struggle for freedom. It is now being dismantled quietly from within.
I met Helle Lyng Svendsen in Oslo. She was clear about what journalists ought to do. I was also struck by how open and accountable she had been, responding to even hostile questions thrown at her.
‛Mad Rush for AI/ Data Centres in India: At What Social Cost?’: Data centres are known to be big guzzlers of water and electricity. 200 GW of data center capacity will annually consume 1,200 Twh of electricity and more than 1000 million cubic meters of water. Also: ‛The Hidden Water Cost of AI in a Thirsty India’.
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