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The historic nationwide farmers struggle that began on November 26 entered its fourth week on December 17. It intensified and spread across the country after the unprecedented support that was expressed by the people of India through the Bharat Bandh on December 8.
While corporates are free to expand their operations across economic spheres and state boundaries, the BJP is trying to split the farmers’ movement with its dishonest labelling. Also: Farmers support for jailed activists is just – fraternity for Ambedkar was crucial for nation building.
The entire practice of the kisan agitation constitutes an emphatic rejection of the ‘nationalism’ propagated by the corporate-Hindutva alliance, and a recovery of the real nationalism that underlay the anti-colonial struggle and provided the foundation for free India.
The dairy industry will be crippled.
Modi’s wanton quoting of Tagore strikes as too much of an attempt to woo Bengalis in election season, considering the overall unfamiliarity with Tagore and his verses, displayed by BJP leaders. Also: Students protest Amit Shah’s visit to Visva-Bharati.
The Thai government has been escalating its attacks on democracy activists over the past weeks; but the student led movement is showing no sign of being cowed by the repression.
In the midst of the greatest health emergency in modern times, with millions of surgical procedures delayed due to underfunding of the National Health Service, the British Prime Minister has announced a record increase in defence spending.
Behind all the pandemic stories now filling the media lie any number of nightmarish tales, that were already common in a country of raging inequality before the coronavirus landed on US shores.
The latest National Family Health Survey reveals that gains made in the last two decades have been reversed.
It’s the Gujarat model, scaled up: of place marketing conflated with RSS goals against the backdrop of neoliberalism and a narrative combining stigmatisation with hyperbole.
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