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Stephanie Savell I’m co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, founded by Catherine Lutz and Neta Crawford in 2011, on the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan. Their goal: to draw attention to the hidden and unacknowledged costs of our counterterror wars in…
M.K. Bhadrakumar The manner in which US President Donald Trump’s administration is ramming a peace settlement down Afghanistan’s throat is disconcerting. Delhi’s silence is more so. One shudders to think that comprador elements in the Indian establishment could be silently collaborating with the US project, in the shadow of Trump’s recent trip to visit…
Bharat Dogra Over the last two years, the most common comment on allocations for the health sector in the union budgets was that there has been “some increase” in it. However, any headline that really captures the wider reality would have said that the ‘government has fallen behind health commitments by over Rs 30,000…
Subodh Varma In the past five years, Dalit communities have been deprived of a staggering Rs 272 thousand crore while Adivasi communities have suffered a loss of Rs 114 thousand crores due to drastic under-allocation in successive Budgets. This emerges from an analysis of Budgetary allocations done by National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights…
Madhumita Dutta, Sirisha Naidu Indians love eating their tangri kebabs, i.e., barbequed chicken drumsticks, and the Americans are eager to sell them the millions of tons of chicken legs they have piled up in their freezers. The leaders of the two of the biggest so-called democracies are magnanimously obliging both sellers and clients during…
Ishmeet Nagpal Delhi has historically been a prime example of the Ganga–Jamuna or Ganga–Jamuni Tehzeeb; with its iconic Khariboli language (a mixture of local dialects), being home to the literary and music traditions of the North India region, and being the birthplace of Qawwali and the Delhi Gharana. Today, Delhi is the epicentre of…
Dunu Roy There is no doubt that the Delhi elections have been comprehensively lost by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), but the sub-text is that it improved its vote share from 32.2 per cent in 2015 to 38.5 per cent this time. The Aam Admi Party (AAP) kept its share of 54.3 per cent in…
Monobina Gupta The recent spate of retaliatory actions against anti-CAA protesters in Karnataka are a replication of mechanisms honed by the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh. The fact that both the state governments relentlessly targeting protesters are led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is ominously significant. Considering the horrifying images flooding…
Sandeep Pandey, Medha Patkar Akhil Gogoi, leader of the largest grassroots mass organisation in Assam, Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti, has been incarcerated under sections 18 and 39 of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act in addition to sections 120B, 124A, 153A and 153B of the IPC and the case handed over to National Investigation Agency, which…
Siddharth Varadarajan Don’t be confused by the big media narrative of pro- and anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protesters or “two sides” fighting it out in the streets of Delhi. And for heaven’s sake don’t fall for the ludicrous claim made by the minister of state for home affairs G. Kishan Reddy that the continuing violence is…
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