The Changpas’ Way of Life Is Undergoing Shocks and Disruption
Like many other indigenous peoples, this pastoral community has a custodian relationship with nature. But development and global warming are changing that.
Can New Age Digital Companies Meet India’s Massive Workforce Needs?
Business models of companies reveal precarious working conditions and exploitation of employees.
The Future of Work
Three-part article on the future of work since the pandemic slump: Remote Working; Working Long and Hard; and Automation.
Capitalism | COVID19 | Employment | Indian Economy | Inflation | Poverty | Print Edition
Lies, Despair and a Grotesque Inequality Plagues Indian Economy Today
The government claims that India is on its way to becoming the fastest growing major economy in the world. It has based these claims on manipulative use of data to project a rosy picture. But there are other data sets that run contrary to the government’s claims, ones the govt doesn’t talk about.
Indian Economy at 75: Trapped in a Borrowed Development Strategy
The growth at any cost strategy has been at the expense of the workers and the environment. The situation has been aggravated by the recent policy mistakes – demonetization, flawed GST and sudden lockdown. The challenge before India is not just economic but societal. Unless that challenge is met, portents are not bright for India at 75.
SBI Research Doubles Farmers’ Income
The SBI Research Dept recently issued a “Special Report on Agriculture” that claims that farmers’ income doubled in FY22 as compared to FY18 for certain crops in some states… while in all other cases it rose in the range of 1.3-1.7 times. An examination of some of the features of this report.
Online Blog | Russia | Ukraine | USA
Lavrov and Blinken Talk for the First Time Since the Ukraine War Began – Two Articles
A CNN report quoted an unnamed US official as saying Russia’s retaliation for western sanctions has put the West in “unchartered territory”. Suffice to say, Blinken’s call underscores the desperate urgency in Washington to open a line of communication to Moscow at the political level.
Mr. Modi, How are You Going to Handle Wheat?
With wheat stocks at a 14-year low and procurement at a 20-year low, how is the ration system going to deliver this staple to crores of people?
Sowing Hunger, Reaping Profits
What is crucially being overlooked by most diagnoses of the current food crisis is how the problem does not lie in a lack of supply, or lack of market integration, but instead in how the food system is structured around power.
Laissez-faire Agnipath Scheme Could Strike at Operational Foundations of India’s Armed Forces
A cost-cutting measure initiated by stealth, the scheme could transform the world’s second-largest military into a rag-tag force of intern soldiers.