As the Revolving Door Spins, Lobbyists Hired for Top Jobs in Congress Yet Again
The newly elected Congress is hiring a wave of corporate lobbyists to fill key staff roles.
Vaccines Alone Aren’t Enough to Eradicate a Virus – Lessons from History
Smallpox eradication teaches that high-tech vaccinations only work when they are effectively combined with low-tech public health strategies.
War Is Not Innate to Humanity
The historical anthropologist says that there is a growing argument for a human history that predates war altogether and further points out that war is not innate to human nature, but instead, is a social and cultural development that begins at certain points around the globe.
Farm Laws: How Bihar’s Peasantry was Pushed to the Brink after APMCs were Scrapped
The nationwide protests against the three contentious Farm Laws enacted by the Centre has brought Bihar into focus. It is a state where new regulations for agricultural produce and its storage, sale and pricing have been in place since 2006. The Bihar government repealed the Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Act fourteen years ago in…
Ambedkar Felt Nobody Could be as Disdainful of the Legislature as the British. Modi Proved Him Wrong
By cancelling the winter session of the Parliament, the Modi government has yet again undercut the legislature and the deliberative process of law-making.
Where Is Justice? Most Farmers and Informal Workers have No Pension After Toiling All Their Life
At a time when highly dubious projects worth tens of thousands of crores have been cleared recklessly, the pension offered by the Union government to elderly citizens is just Rs. 200 per month, and this too only for about 27% of senior citizens who need this.
Elsevier and Wiley Declare War on Research Community in India
Three academic publishers have asked the Court to block the websites Sci-Hub and Libgen in India, which provide free downloads of research publications and books. Without access to the journals available on these websites for free, it is almost impossible to do quality research..
Covid, Brexit and Dreadnought: UK Slides into Economic and Social Turmoil
Britain, led by a poseur whose self-esteem is akin to that of the equally repellent Trump, is in a parlous economic condition, and is suffering from social rupture of a viciousness unknown in recent history.
‘I Believe Dance Is a ‘Project’ to Enable a Recovery of the Body, of Our Spine’
The renowned dancer-choreographer says that the internal relation between dance and the dancer and the external relation between dance and society are questions that cannot be taken lightly.
A Month On, Farmers Movement Remains Resolute
A collection of articles and news snippets on the farmers’ movement against the three farm laws, that continues to spread and intensify across the country. The farmers have also given a call to boycott Ambani-Adani products.