Three Poems
‘A Poet Regrets’; ‘A Song from the Ruins’; ‘Migrants, COVID-19’.
The Forced Evictions Across India Around G20 Events
At the Press Conference organized by the Concerned Citizens of India at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club on 13 July, the release of the public hearing report shed light on the harrowing experiences of forced evictions across India in preparation for the G20 summit.
Witch-Hunt Against Tejaswini Desai Highlights Dangers of Being a Teacher in India Today
What happened to Professor Tejaswini Desai of Kolhapur can happen to anyone in the teaching community. It tells you of the perils of being a teacher in India of our times
How Reforms Made India Suit-Boot Economy
The poorest 40% of Indians would have been better off today had Indira Gandhi not launched Operation Forward in 1982.
Asset Management Firms are Gaining Power Over Housing, Hospitals, Water and More
From housing to hospitals and water networks to wind farms, asset management firms with names like Blackstone, Brookfield and Macquarie are gobbling up the basic stuff we all depend on to exist.
Poverty and Crisis: Sucking Humanity Dry
The World Bank says nearly 80% (560 million) of the 700 million people who were pushed into extreme poverty in 2020 due to COVID policies were from India. Globally, extreme poverty levels increased by 9.3 per cent in 2020.
Earnings of Big Companies, Super Rich Booming – 2 Articles
“Big Companies Earned Over USD 1 Trillion of Profit in 2022, Says Joint Oxfam and Action Aid Study”. And: “World’s Richest Added $852 Billion to Their Fortunes in First Half of 2023”.
Pasmandas and the Dalit Movement
Book Review: The author dubs the BJP’s efforts to connect with the Muslim community, especially the Pasmandas, through “Sneh Yatras” and other outreach initiatives, as tokenistic, part of BJP’s vote bank politics, and as efforts to pit Muslims against one another.
Lalu Prasad Yadav Compares the Emergency Declared on This Day in 1975 to the Undeclared One Now
‘The assassins of Mahatma Gandhi were not worshipped during the 1975 Emergency. Boys and girls were free to choose partners of their choice. They were not persecuted in the name of ‘love jihad’.’
Curricular Wars and Averting Auschwitz
Education through rewritten textbooks, proscription of materials and textualised hate towards the Jews was central to the Nazi plot and storyline. The war for global domination and extermination began, as it were, in curricular battles.