by A Sunil Dharan
The Finance Minister’s budget speech gave us the impression that she has pulled off the impossible. She has, apparently, presented an expansionary budget with thrust on capital spending and increased expenditure on priority (...)
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Union Budget 2021-22: Long on Promises, Short in Content | A Sunil Dharan
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The World May Be Sorry For India | TJS George
12 February 2021, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
More than any other Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi longed for international approbation. He wanted the world to chant Howdy Modi not as part of an organised publicity stunt, but spontaneously with love and reverence. (...) -
Gandhi and Farmers | M.R. Narayan Swamy
12 February 2021, by M R Narayan SwamyFor the Mahatma, Farmers Were Saints “If I had my way, our Governor-General would be a peasant, our Prime Minister would be a peasant,” Mahatma Gandhi said at his prayer meeting in New Delhi on (...) -
Modi’s manoeuvres in Rajya Sabha fail to assuage the feelings of the farmers | Arun Srivastava
12 February 2021by Arun Srivastava
With the farmers’ movement which so far has been focussed on repealing of the three black laws, acquiring the new dynamics of protest for the restoration of the democracy and protection of the human rights, a nervous prime (...) -
Farmers’ Movement: Time to Introspect | Prem Singh
12 February 2021, by Prem Singhby Prem Singh
Two achievements of the ongoing peasant movement in opposition to the three agricultural laws which have transformed this movement into nothing sort of exemplary are: carving out a space for democratic resistance; and expanding (...) -
The Cow Problem Of Cow Belt | Sandeep Pandey and Kushagra Kumar
12 February 2021, by Kushagra Kumar, Sandeep PandeyNarendra Modi’s ascension to power brought a new phenomenon to India – cow vigilantism. Number of mob lynching incidents took place some resulting in loss of life for the victims who happened to be mostly Muslims. Dalits too took the beating. On (...) -
Book Excerpt: The Death Script - Dreams and Delusions in Naxal Country | Ashutosh Bhardwaj
12 February 2021by Ashutosh Bhardwaj
THE DEATH SCRIPT:
Dreams and delusions in Naxal country
by Ashutosh Bhardwaj
HarperCollins Publishers India
June 2020 ; 280 pages ; Rs 599
Available here
EXCERPTS:
Will you become our intellectual?’
I was (...) -
Empowering the Migrants: Requisites and Rationalities | Nupur Pattanaik
12 February 2021by Nupur Pattanaik
The paper analyses the plight of migrants and talks about the atrocities encountered by the migrant community during the pandemic. The Covid-19 has brought to the spotlight the trials and tribulations faced by women, children, (...) -
How to Silence Rihanna & Influence the World | Deputy Deshbhakt
12 February 2021by Deputy Deshbhakt
The protesting farmers can tackle barbed wire and steel spikes but cannot cope with 20 ex-IFS officers supporting the farm laws. Farmers cannot read the English statement by experts in drafting papers and non-papers. These (...) -
Myanmar: A turbulent Democracy | Priyanka Mallick
12 February 2021by Priyanka Mallick *
Myanmar is again under military rule. After a gap of almost one decade, Myanmar is directly under military control. The State Counsellor of Myanmar and the leader of National League for Democracy (NLD), Aung San Suu Kyi are (...)
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