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‘It’s Not Just Dharavi. For Years, Mumbai’s Poor Have Been Banished to a Life Near a Garbage Dump’: In resettlement colonies built near the Deonar landfill, life expectancy is low, jobs scarce and health problems abound. Also: ‘The Redevelopment of Dharavi Will Destroy the Livelihoods of Those Who Work in Small Businesses’.
The Foxconn factory at Tamil Nadu has emerged as a site where women workers have faced unsafe, exploitative and discriminatory work conditions, representative indeed of the true position of women workers in the formal sector.
Instead of being protected and lauded for exposing malfeasance, Indian whistleblowers face retaliation, legal harassment, and professional ruin. This article talks about three whistleblowers from prominent Indian companies.
The sinking of MSC ELSA 3 and its impact on Kerala’s coast isn’t a freak accident—it’s the fallout of building a port on a fragile coastline.
With higher education centres turning into carriers of political propaganda, there is little room for academic freedom or informed public discourse.
‘Ali Khan Mahmudabad has Fulfilled the Task of a Political Scientist’: Ali has been penalised because our society has been taught to distrust intellectuals. It should realise that intellectuals are the lifeblood of our society because they advocate the thinking human being. Also: ‘For Mahmudabad’s Bail Observations, We Cannot Blame Just the Supreme Court’.
Kashmiris and Muslims were the target of collective retribution in the midst of an outpouring of love, humanity and resistance following the terror attack.
It doesn’t behove the stature of an Indian prime minister to deploy such racist language about any community, whether Indian or not. Why you could consider a course correction.
Large sections of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs unitedly challenged the greatest imperialist power, Britain, during India’s First War of Independence which began on May 10, 1857.
‘Trump’s Unprecedented Program of National Self-Destruction’; ‘Science Decommissioned!’; ‘Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ Cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and More’; ‘Disappearing the America We Once Knew’; ‘Trump’s Budget Bill a Disaster for Black Workers’; ‘A Death Sentence for Thousands and Thousands of People’.
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