What Is to be Done About Work?
A review of three important books that examine work and its discontents, in pre-pandemic form, including questions related to job satisfaction, inadequate compensation, long hours, and morally injurious employment.
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Blinded by the Light: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Age of Normalized Violence
In an age when violence turns into a spectacle, mass shootings become normalized, and violence becomes the primary language of politics, it becomes all the more difficult and yet necessary to remember the horror and legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Digital Davids
Neither NewsClick nor Newslaundry has altered the tenor of its reporting in the period between the two visits by the Enforcement Directorate and the income tax authorities this year. Both news portals expose politics, governance and the media establishment on a range of issues.
How A Year of Covid-19 Financially Dented India’s Middle Class
For Indians who had newly joined the growing middle class, the economic crisis following the pandemic has dealt a severe blow.
Food and the Struggle for Africa’s Sovereignty
The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the stark reality of Africa’s extreme dependence on imports to feed our populations.
Patriarchy: The Struggle Continues
We feminists of the 1960s-70s thought we might have won some of the battles against Patriarchy. However Patriarchy, in spite of all the movements, campaigns, and struggles, is not dead yet. The problems come from many directions, but they circle back to age-old conditions.
Scientists Have Political Role Outside Their Labs to Safeguard Humanity
Celebration of scientific discoveries confined only inside the laboratory would be insufficient to achieve social goals, for which the scientific community has to step out beyond the laboratory with social sensitivity and political responsibility.
Everything for Sale
Modi government’s peculiar agenda is to turn everything into a commodity – from vaccines, to historic landmarks, to basic services. Nothing is sacrosanct, nothing is hallowed, nothing transcends the market; everything is for sale.
Kerala: Parties, Including CPM, Defend Hate Speech by Bishop; Women Counter – Two Articles
On how the women of the Muslim League and nuns are ushering in a new debate on issues of gender equality and making hope possible in a state of despair; Also, article: In Kerala, the Ruling CPM and an Islamophobic Bishop Make Strange Bedfellows.
End Vaccine Apartheid; Also – Cuba Vaccinates Children
Vaccine costs have pushed many developing countries to the end of the Covid-19 vaccination queue. Worse, less vaccinated poor nations cannot afford fiscal efforts to provide relief or stimulate recovery. Plus: Cuba: The First Country in the World to Vaccinate Children Under 12.