US GDP in Historic Freefall – Two Articles
Never before in modern US history—not even in the worse quarters of the 1930s Great Depression—has the US economy contracted so quickly and so deeply!
In Indian Cities, Home-Based Workers are Being Paid Rs 15 for a Day’s Work Since the Lockdown
These women, without a contract or claim to worker rights, comprise the lowest rung of India’s labour chain.
‘There Is No God in that Temple, Said the Hermit’
A translation of Tagore’s poem ‘Deeno Daan’ (’Destitute Donation’), that he wrote in 1900.
Defunding America’s Wars at Home and Abroad
The murder of George Floyd has finally shone a spotlight on the need to defund local police departments; the same sort of spotlight needs to be shone on the American military machine and the damage it’s been doing across the world.
How Have the Centre’s Food Distribution Schemes Performed So Far?
Food distribution under the PMGKY and Atmanirbhar Bharat package has been marked by delays.
No Reason in Law or Conscience to Hold Varavara Rao: Appeals, and an Article
It is a matter of shame that dreaded criminals in India receive political patronage and are able to remain outside jail, whereas intellectuals like Varavara Rao languish in jail.
Taking Advantage of Lockdown, Centre Approves Environmentally Destructive Projects: Statement, and Article
A critique of the way in which issues concerning forests, biodiversity and the environment are presently being handled.
CBSE Prunes Syllabus for COVID – Two Articles
The CBSE’s syllabus diktat seems to announce a clampdown on learning that may raise questions of macro-historical distress and discrimination that continue to plague the republic.
Veterans Statement on India – China Stand-Off
144 Armed Forces Veterans write to the Government of India saying that the incident at Galwan could only have happened because of failure at one or more levels.
Save Country and Constitution from the Current Government
In a call to all progressive lawyers, Justice P.B. Sawant says that the powers that be are inimical to the Indian Constitution that is a culturally and socially transformative document