Myths About the Green Revolution – 3 Articles
“The Passing of the Father of India’s Green Revolution – But What Did the GR Really Do for India?”; “Commentary: New Histories of the Indian Green Revolution”; and: “Myths About the Green Revolution”.
Narendra Modi’s Decade in Power Has Brought a Shrinking Welfare Landscape to India
Declining allocations on social welfare spending, and neglect of existing schemes and programmes, underscore how welfare has come to be constrained in the past ten years.
Modi’s Cricket Ploy: Hindutva as Twelfth Man
Commentators are already noting that the One-Day international cricket tournament commencing in India will usher in a pre-election campaign extravaganza for Modi and his BJP, one lasting six weeks.
Reality Meets Truth: The United States in the Middle East
While employing the rhetoric of peace, the United States arms, trains and gears up Israel and Arab Gulf autocrats for war, with Iran as the target. America has helped Israel build one of the strongest militaries in the world. Israel is the world’s only unacknowledged nuclear power.
Terrorising Journalism
‘Raiding’ an entire media organisation and snatching the electronic devices of journalists without due process is a bad omen for a free press but a worse signal for the continuation of democracy.
Budget 2023–24: What Is in it for the People? Part 8: Education Budget
An analysis of the budgetary allocations for education in Union Budget 2023-24, in the context of the claims made in the New Education Policy 2020.
Politics of Bharat Over India
The India versus Bharat debate is based on politics of hate, a menace to the fundamental nature of the Constitution. Contemporary politics seems nothing but an attempt of the distractive forces to change the Constitution while keeping such debates in the public domain.
India’s Gender Pay Gap Among Worst in World; Maternal Deaths Also Highest
India is ranked 116th among 146 countries as per the Global Gender Index. The gender-pay gap in India continues to afflict its labour markets and the constitutional value of equality. Also: “India Had Most Maternal Deaths, Stillbirths and Neonatal Deaths in 2020, Says UN Report”.
How Agencies That Promote Nuclear Power are Quietly Managing its Disaster Narrative
Because of the cover-up strategy of the international nuclear lobby, the lessons of Chernobyl and Fukushima are not being applied at all, but rather, the actual health hazards are being covered up. Any so-called cleanup projects are being carried out for the sake of immediate interests only.
The Reason Behind BJP Raising Women’s Reservation Issue
The BJP raising the women’s reservation issue, in the last eight months of a nine and a half year tenure of the Modi government, appears to be wanting to take the heat off serious concerns that have tarred the record of this government around the safety and well-being of women.