Budget 2023–24: What Is in it for the People? Part 8: Education Budget
An analysis of the budgetary allocations for education in Union Budget 2023-24, in the context of the claims made in the New Education Policy 2020.
India’s Gender Pay Gap Among Worst in World; Maternal Deaths Also Highest
India is ranked 116th among 146 countries as per the Global Gender Index. The gender-pay gap in India continues to afflict its labour markets and the constitutional value of equality. Also: “India Had Most Maternal Deaths, Stillbirths and Neonatal Deaths in 2020, Says UN Report”.
Religion, Gender and Equality
Women and their struggle for equality are inherently tied to the struggle for democracy in India.
‘Silent Coup’: How Capitalism Defeated Decolonization
The crumbling of European empires after WWII didn’t usher in a new era of democracy — instead, we now live in a regime of international corporate rule.
Amilcar Cabral in the Age of ‘Identity Politics’
On the occasion of the republication of ‘Return to the Source’ by Monthly Review Press, a panel of long-serving Pan-Africanists reflect on the life of Amilcar Cabral and the relevance of his teachings to current liberation movements.
Digital India Has Run Out of Freedoms
With the Personal Digital Personal Data Protection Act, the Government of India claims it has provided Indians with the ability to exercise their fundamental right to privacy. The reality is that it is full of exceptions that suppress our freedoms.
What Ashoka University Can Learn from Gandhi, Tagore and Nehru’s Thoughts on Academic Freedom
The all-out assault on the autonomy of Ashoka University and its regrettable capitulation to such menacing interferences reminds one of British rule, when universities of pre-independent India were being controlled by the colonial government directly or indirectly.
70 Years After Iranian Coup, the British Still Won’t Confess to Their Crimes
Iranian filmmaker Taghi Amirani joins Chris Hedges to discuss his documentary ‘Coup 53,’ which uses newly discovered archival material to expose how the CIA and British intelligence worked clandestinely to overthrow Mohammad Mosaddegh 70 years ago.
The Dismantling of Democracy in India Will Affect the Whole World
The text of the writer’s speech as she received the 45th European Essay Prize on September 12: “India’s Constitution has been effectively set aside. The Indian Penal Code is being rewritten…. However grim the situation is, please know that there is a tremendous fight back.”
God’s Republics: Two-nation Theory and Two-state Solution
Pakistan failed to develop into a bourgeois nation state, and Israel has no intention of becoming one.