Jobless Numbers Are Touching 5 Crore
Labour force has still not recovered to pre-pandemic levels, according to CMIE.
The Fine-Grained Struggle for Indian Independence
Review of P. Sainath’s book, “The Last Heroes, Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom”
Dharavi Dreams: The New Redevelopment Plan Ignores the Rights of the People Who Built It
The Adani group recently won the bid to redevelop 260 hectares of Mumbai’s Dharavi settlement. While planning profit-focused redevelopment of Dharavi, no one ask’s what Dharavi is, what the people who live here worry about, and how they would themselves like this area to be transformed.
The Road to De-Dollarisation Will Run Through Saudi Arabia
Western media has been near silent on the region’s humiliating loss of economic prestige and dominance during Xi’s trip to Riyadh. China can now simultaneously navigate complex relations with Iran, the GCC, Russia, and Arab League states.
Oxfam Report: Societal Inequalities Being Replicated in Digital Space
The percentage of men owning phones is as high as 61% while only 31% of women owned phones in 2021, according to a new report, which claimed that India’s growing inequalities based on caste, religion, gender, class, and geographic location are being worryingly replicated in the digital space.
Should We be Worried About Eight Billion People?
Focusing more on population than consumption ignores the far greater impacts wealthy countries – where population growth is slowing – are creating.
Does Modi’s India Care About Palestine Any More?
Apart from deepening ties with Tel Aviv on all fronts, especially military, the Hindutva ideologues in power in India draw great inspiration from the Israeli model of nationalism and repression.
25 November: International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women
UN Secy. General Antonio Guterres said in his message for the International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women and Children that “every 11 minutes, a woman or girl is killed by an intimate partner or family member”. This article seeks to understand the roots of this violence.
SC Decision on EWS Reservations Strikes at Basic Structure of Constitution
The People’s Union for Civil Liberates (PUCL), India’s premier human rights organisation, has said that the Supreme Court judgement, upholding reservation for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS), strikes at the “basic structure of the Constitution”.
Why Is There No Upper Caste Outcry When Merit Goes for a Toss in the EWS Quota?
For centuries, those who have reserved all the opportunities for themselves have started considering their talent as natural. They do not realise the injustice and tyranny hidden within the social structure which makes them owners of merit by robbing others of their merit.