As PM, India’s Modi Secretly Tried to Massively Cut State Funds
Modi tried to force the Finance Commission to cut back on the amount of tax revenue meant for India’s states.
Rethinking Employment and Industrialisation in India
Corporate-driven industrialisation has failed to create the jobs that India’s youth need. We need a different kind of growth based on reducing the productivity gap between rural and urban India. The author presents an agenda for raising rural productivity so that quality employment is created in the rural areas.
Muzzling the Press
In 2023, India hit a new low in press freedom, with the Central government signalling zero tolerance for a free and vibrant media.
2023: The Year of the Surajmukhi Court
A long look at 2023 and how the courts let India down.
Jawaharlal Nehru: A Guiding Force in Our Past, Present, and Future – Part I
Nehru’s fantastic effort to raise India from what Tagore called the ‘mud and filth’ left behind by the British has now been replaced with the Indian people being pushed back into that same ‘mud and filth’ of ignorance, obscurantism, dis-empowerment, unfreedom and above all communal hatred.
Constitution | Fascism | India | Online Blog
Emerging Challenge to the Constitution
In 2023 the Constitution was challenged as being colonial and outdated. Bibek Debroy’s opinion piece was product placement, a warning of things to come. The aim behind these suggestions is to facilitate Central “executive efficiency”, governance involving “law and order, and swift dispute resolution”.
Bharat Nyaya Yatra and Challenge of Restoring Faith in Justice
The Bharat Nyaya Yatra from Manipur to Mumbai, led by Rahul Gandhi, is set to begin on 14 January 2024. It promises to mobilise people by reaffirming their faith in the lofty goals of the Constitution: its ideas of social, economic and political justice.
Caste | Caste | Online Blog
‘Abolish Reservations After 10 Years’: The Illusion of Merit and What B.R. Ambedkar Never Said
The writer of India’s Constitution never favoured a time-bound framework for quotas. Misquoting him ducks questions on what has really changed for lower castes.
Communalism | Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
What Will the Inauguration of the Ram Temple Portend for India’s Future?
The shrine in Ayodhya will be a symbol of religious triumphalism, a sign that this is becoming ever more a Hindu-first country.
Communalism | Communalism | India | Online Blog | Securalism
People’s Manifesto for a Sustainable, Just India
21 demands that India needs to act on to resolve the growing crises of unemployment, malnutrition, social conflict, ecological collapse and decline in democratic rights.