How Modi Is Trying to Use Gandhi’s Name to Whitewash His Dark Record
The plan to reshape the Mahatma’s Sabarmati Ashram is an act of vandalism.
For India’s Sake, Stop Destroying Communal Harmony with the Bogey of Love Jihad
The hate-filled and menacing messages on some WhatsApp groups are frightening in their implications.
‘Universalise Food Distribution so No One goes Hungry During Pandemic’ + State of Nutrition in India
To fight hunger and distress due to the pandemic, India must universalise foodgrain distribution, expand the food basket in its rations scheme and provide cash transfers. Plus article: Addressing the Nutrition Crisis in India in the Time of Covid 19 Pandemic.
Surging Fuel Prices Further Dent India’s Pandemic-Stressed Economy
Retail prices of petrol and diesel have gone up even as global crude prices dampened, and the dollar-rupee exchange rate remained relatively stable. All told, more than half the price consumers pay per litre of fuel goes to tax, of which the lion’s share goes to the central government.
The Forex Bonanza
The rise in India’s forex reserves is no cause for celebration. Rather it points to effects of the economic contraction induced by the pandemic and the new vulnerabilities that the circumstances accompanying the pandemic have generated.
Hold Up The Mirror Of Human Trafficking And What Do You See?
Human trafficking is big business, the third biggest in the world after drugs and arms trafficking, and the fastest-growing activity of international criminal organizations. Its roots lie in the global neoliberal system.
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Exporting Oppression: Israel’s Profitable Arms Industry
Israel is one of the world’s most militarized and securitized countries. It is also the eighth largest arms exporter in the world. Through its arms exports, Israel is shaping the coercive dimensions of states everywhere, bringing the politics and methodology of occupation to its allies abroad.
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Legacies of Definancialization and Defending Real Economy in China
China has integrated itself into the world economy and to a certain degree into Western-dominated financial institutions since the 1970s. However, it has never relinquished capital controls and its financial opening is comparatively limited.
How Soil Acts as a Living Witness to Racial Violence
The Equal Justice Initiative in the USA is using soil to document the lynchings of more than 4,400 African-descended people between 1877 and 1950.
Namibian Olympic Sprinters Blunted by World Athletics’ ‘Caster Semenya Rule’
The Olympic regulation on naturally occurring testosterone removes two phenoms from the 400-meter, draws a nation’s ire and sparks questions about fairness.