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An interview with former military officer Sushant Singh, a lecturer at Yale University and one of India’s foremost security experts, on Delhi’s military options following the horrific attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, in which 26 people were killed.
‘Explained: What Does India Suspending the Indus Waters Treaty Mean?’: and how can it hurt Pakistan in the short term and long run? Also: ‘Why Putting Indus Waters Treaty ‘in Abeyance’ has Been Counterproductive for India’.
‘Modi’s Somersault on Caste Census is a U-turn Fraught with Long-Term Challenges for the RSS-BJP’; ‘As BJP Bows to Caste Census, How Will the Clash Between Social Justice Politics and Hindutva Play Out?’; ‘A Look Back at India’s Caste Census Journey’; and: ‘We Want Dates – Says Opposition’.
India’s response stands out among that of major countries worldwide. India’s rulers have chosen this moment to move even closer to the US, both in the sphere of the economy and strategic alignment.
A decade after the promise to build 100 high-tech cities, and five years behind schedule, the scheme closes and questions linger.
The Census is now four years overdue, and the budget for the exercise has been slashed indicating further delays. This is even as millions of Indians are left without access to subsidised foodgrain, pushing them to the brink of food insecurity.
Pitting trade unions in an unequal footing against employers, too much discretion to executive, doing away with punitive measures against employers – the Labour Codes could give employers the license to practice forced labour.
Labour migration is not about simple spatial mobility but the transfer of labour power for accumulation in advanced capitalist countries.
We need to speak up for Kamra not because he is a headliner. We need to speak up because there are Kunals among the marginalised who are hit by the legitimation of reactionary brutality.
Mukesh Chandrakar was a journalist from Bastar, Chhattisgarh. He was 32 when he was found murdered on January 3 this year. He was killed for reporting on a substandard road. The authors set about investigating not who, but what killed Mukesh. It has turned out to be the story of Bastar that Mukesh loved and reported on.
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