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Farmers decide to hold a ‘tractor march’ in 16 districts of UP and Uttarakhand, and simultaneously a padyatra too in UP; Central Trade Unions and farmers decide to observe anti-privatisation day on March 15; meanwhile, women farmers start their own newsletter at Delhi border.
A brief analysis of the Amazon revelations, in the context of the long debate on e-commerce in India, followed by a discussion on why it is so important to link it with the on-going policy debates and protests across the country.
No movement in India’s history – including the movement for independence from British colonial rule – saw this degree of participation by women.
Biden’s relief package comes to almost 10% of US GDP; this comes on top of a similar package announced by Trump earlier. It not only represents a jump in social expenditure, it is primarily being financed by taxing the rich. A sharp difference from what has been done by Modi in India.
Modi government’s flagship Ujjwala scheme continues to hand out new gas connections, but an increasing number of India’s poor have stopped refilling them due to high gas prices.
Democracy watchdog Freedom House, in a new report, has demoted India from “free” to “partly free”, flagging sustained erosion of civil liberties in the country; Centre rebuts report, calls it ‘Misleading, Incorrect, Misplaced’; Experts say the Centre’s rebuttal belies ground reality.
Since 2020, attacks on independent media have surged, with arrests, terror and sedition cases, even as a right-wing ecosystem issues rape and death threats and discredits any narrative against official interests.
Deeply distressed by the regressive statements of the CJI asking a rapist to marry the victim and condoning marital rape in court on 01 March 2021, over 4000+ concerned citizens issued an open letter to the CJI demanding an apology demanding that he down.
In India, the transformation of Delhi Ridge from a site of working-class politics to a site of breezy recreation shows how a world-class megacity is made under the spell of neoliberalism. Workers are pushed to the side in order to make way for the affluent classes.
American “Big Tech” corporations are gaining massive profits through their control over business, labor, social media and entertainment in the Global South.
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