Co-Lending: A Double Deal for Recolonising Peasantry, Helping Corporate Cronies
Through “nationalised banks-NBFC” deals, the Modi government is trying to achieve what the three farm laws could not achieve.
Explained: ‘Trads’ vs ‘Raitas’ and the Inner Workings of India’s Alt-Right
In the past few years, a significant number of young men and women in India have been attracted to a dangerous alt-right digital ecosystem called ‘trad-wing’, in which they serve as self-styled civilisational warriors.
The Highest Attainable Standard of Health Is a Fundamental Right of Every Human Being
In 1978, at Alma-Ata (USSR), countries pledged to enhance public health infrastructure. However, they not only failed to do, they also systematically undermined it by extensively privatising health care. That is one reason why the capitalist states have not been able to handle the corona crisis.
Unless Majoritarian Hate Is Stopped, It Will Destroy the India of Our Dreams
The vitriol of Hindutva rhetoric is obliterating the Constitutional idea that all citizens are equal, regardless of religion.
‘Kisan-Mazdoor Ekta’: A Slogan to Unify Farmers and Labourers – and Break Caste Barriers
The slogan did not evolve in one day and from one particular social group; it was the result of a continuous process which was achieved over days.
How Hindu Nationalism Enables India’s Slide into Inequality
The World Inequality Report 2022 has shed light on starkly growing inequalities in India. But, under the present regime, there has been a subversion of discourse required to address these yawning material and social chasms.
More Families Pushed to Surviving Without Jobs
Latest CMIE data shows that share of families with two members working has fallen drastically. This means people are surviving on much less income.
‘Yes, We Are Andolanjeevi, You Have Forced Us’: Medha Patkar
Today’s centralised policies are pushing the marginalised communities further to the margins, squeezing all options for the poor but to take to the streets – says the activist.
As Uttar Pradesh Heads to Polls, How Does the Yogi Govt’s Economic Performance Hold Up?
Employment trends are dismal under the ‘double engine government’ of Modi and Adityanath. Several other claims made in ads do not appear to hold up.
BCCI’s Functioning Is But a Mirror to How the Country Is Being Run
Those who really run the BCCI are intimately connected to, if not proxies of, the political leadership running the country. The shenanigans in the running of the BCCI mirror the trickery and deceit at play in the running of the country. That is the real message from the Kohli saga.