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Behind his rhetoric, Biden will seek nothing less than global supremacy, escalating a new and even more dangerous arms race that risks the destruction of humanity. That’s what he calls “decency” and “normalcy.”
In both India and China, income inequality substantially grew after the economic liberalisation of the 1980s. However, while China’s inequality levels stabilised in 2019, India’s inequality levels continued to rise.
In September, amid protests against the controversial new agricultural laws, the Modi government announced the MSP for six rabi crops. Official documents show that several states, including BJP-ruled ones, said the increase was minor.
Users across the country are giving up their MTNL or BSNL connections because of deliberate government decision to strangulate these public sector companies.
A musical rendition of Asokan edicts rekindles interest in the ethical values ingrained in them and the Mauryan emperor’s vision of a humane society. Also: an interview with T.M. Krishna.
From moral policing in Dakshina Kannada to stoking riots in Muzaffarnagar, the ‘love jihad’ bogey has served many purposes for the Hindu right wing.
An exception to Section 375 of IPC (that defines rape) specifically excludes acts of sexual violence in marriage from the ambit of rape. This exception is violative of the fundamental rights of equality, dignity and privacy of women.
The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation (Amendment) Bill, 2020 continues to tread the same flawed path as its previous versions of 1993 and 2013 with little to no effect on providing succour to sanitation workers.
The Court has deliberately refused to act in defence of citizens and groups who have been victimised for their protest and dissent, or who are only exercising their fundamental right of freedom of speech and expression.
Walter Rodney’s masterpiece How Europe Underdeveloped Africa examined four hundred years of European intervention and occupation in Africa. An examination of the context and approach Rodney took in his 1972 book.
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