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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
An official report prepared under the Vajpayee government in 2002 gives us a glimpse of some of the major lobbies pressing for restructuring of India’s agriculture and food economy.
Greater public employment ensures better deliver of public services to citizens.
The government did not give out relief packages in order to avoid stretching beyond its fiscal deficit limit, because it would have been frowned upon by global finance.
Standing on the shoulders of foreign firms and depending on foreign markets, while riding roughshod over workers, is not the way to journey to an Atmanirbhar Bharat – the workers’ protest at Wistron’s Bengaluru factory assembling Apple iPhones makes this very clear.
Democracy is not just periodical elections or a brute majority in Parliament, but the existence of robust constitutional values. If only Mr. Kant would take the trouble of stepping out of his bio bubble in Niti Aayog, he would notice their absence in his New India.
A country that ranks 94 among 107 countries in the Global Hunger Index can’t be said to be self-sufficient in foodgrains. The surplus stocks are due to shortage of purchasing power in peoples’ hands.
A tribute to Friedrich Engels’ The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, which laid the groundwork for feminism.
Mass workers’ movements transformed much of the world in the twentieth century, but they couldn’t overcome the power of capital. Today, we need a new democratic socialism to remake politics and revive working-class organizing.
Till now there was an arrangement in the country under which, even though agriculture was crumbling under the impact of neo-liberalism, the peasantry was kept alive. The three laws brought in by the Modi government are meant to remove this life-line altogether.
While Covid-19 affected all areas of life, it was access to healthcare where it had the maximum effect. Inpatient admissions, outpatient care and operations saw declines of up to 40%. Declines were also seen in deliveries, antenatal care and immunisation of children.
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