Why India’s Health Care Systems Fail to Provide for Marginalised Citizens
India is one of the world’s leading destinations for medical tourism, and yet it ranks abysmally low in terms of providing basic healthcare facilities to its own citizens.
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Capitalism | COVID19 | Economy | Online Blog
Capitalist Morbidity and the Global Crisis
A serious explanation of the covid health emergency together with the associated economic slump must involve a scientific critique of the social conditions that allowed the virus to emerge and the pandemic to develop in the way that it did.
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Earth Abuse and the Next Pandemic
Humanity’s transgression of ecological limits has caused widespread damage, including a climate emergency. Earth abuse is also at the root of the Covid-19 pandemic and the grim likelihood that new pathogens will continue to emerge from other animal species to infect humans.
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China and Cuba’s Vaccine Internationalism – Two Articles
As rich nations stockpile COVID-19 vaccines, China is providing a lifeline to Global South nations spurned by Western pharmaceuticals and excluded by the West’s neocolonial vaccine nationalism. The vaccines being developed by Cuba will also soon be available to the poor countries.
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On April 26, Farmers’ Protest Completes Five Months – Two Articles
Five months 400 deaths still continuing: Farmers protest around Delhi; Haryana: Khaps move to resist possible ‘forcible removal’ of farmers from protest sites.
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India on the Brink of Unprecedented Unemployment Crisis: CMIE Report
The latest CMIE report reveals that salaried jobs across India registered a sharp decline in 2020-21 to the tune of 9.8 million, with majority of the salaried jobs lost being registered in rural India.
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When the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ Comes Knocking
The Indian government is promoting job-destroying ‘smart’ automation, despite the country reeling from the worst unemployment crisis in recent history, at the behest of the World Economic Forum, which is dominated by the world’s biggest corporations.
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Centre Wants to Amend the Indian Forest Act Again Despite the Resistance to Past Attempts
The environment ministry is once again attempting to ease rules in favour of the forest bureaucracy and private industries.
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Mining Act: Will the Centre Usurp the Powers of Mineral-Rich States?
The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill 2021 will enable the Centre to interfere in the mineral rich states, most of which are ruled by non-BJP parties, and parcel off their mines to its favourites, and also usurp other powers so far vested with the State govts.
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Mouse Under the Throne: The Judicial Legacy of Sharad A. Bobde
Evasion, hypocrisy and duplicity marked the 17 month tenure of the outgoing Chief Justice of India, with the central executive ending up favoured each time. On the date of his retirement, not one of the five constitutional matters pending had been substantively heard or decided.
