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‘The Great Indian University Illusion’: India dreams of Ivy Leagues while gutting public universities and pricing out its best minds. A knowledge economy without knowledge is just PR. Also: ‘The Real Challenges of Foreign Campuses’.
Today India produces 34.6 crore tons of food grains and 30 crore litres of milk thanks to the hard work of our farmers. Yet, Indian farmer families are highly indebted and distressed.
As anti-reservation sentiments grow, only data, facts and accurate information can provide solutions, says professor in demography Srinivas Goli.
Nearly 20,000 stalls in Delhi have been removed since the beginning of May, according to the National Association of Street Vendors of India. Many of the evicted vendors possess “certificates of vending” – official documents that validate their right to sell goods in designated areas.
The most recent round of India-Pakistan hostilities reaffirmed a stark truth—for border residents, war is a zero-sum game. They gain nothing, but lose their safety, property, livelihoods, and even lives.
The sheer economic difficulties faced by academics in India in the last few years testifies to the fact that the fates of the intelligentsia and of the working people get linked together during the crisis of neo-fascism, which itself moves centre-stage in a situation of such crisis.
‘How Nehru Used Science for Nation Building’: For Jawaharlal Nehru, science was an “enzyme of hope”, a romance, a dream, and a constructive way of imagining the nation. Also: ‘Despite the Assaults on Nehru’s Legacy, India Still Lives in the House That He Built’.
War is a business. So is genocide. A recent report lists 48 corporations and institutions, along with banks and financial firms, which in violation of international law are making billions from the occupation and the genocide of Palestinians.
‘The Empire’s Strategic Failure: How the US-Israeli Assault on Iran Accelerated Imperial Decline’; ‘Proof that Israel Has Lost the War: “Sizable Portion of Military, Intelligence, Energy, and R&D Facilities Destroyed”’.
In theory and in practice, Zionism is a degraded repetition of European imperialism.
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