2021

The term ‘Development’ is a catchword in the neo-liberal paradigm of governance. Multiple forms of violence have been inflicted on the people, particularly those belonging to the subaltern social classes/groups, in the name of ‘Development’. In the early 1990s, a book titled The Development Dictionary: A guide to Knowledge as Power was published under the editorship of Wolfgang Sachs. Very recently, a new book bearing the title Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary has been published (…)

by S S Sangwan
Since 26 November 2020, thousands of farmers are protesting at the boarders of Delhi State for repealing the three farm laws of 2020. An attempt is made here to link these laws with the issues thrown up by the Agricultural Price Policy (APP). The AAP is implemented through procurement of wheat & rice at MSP by Food Corporation of India (FCI) and pulses & oilseeds by National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED) under a Price Support (…)

by Pavittarbir Singh Saggu *
Abstract
The influence of the Minimum Support Price (MSP) on agricultural technology adoption and boosting output and buffer stocks of cereals, pulses, and oilseeds in India is discussed in this paper. The results imply that food policy should strike a compromise between the interests of farmers in increasing their profits and consumers in ensuring nutrition security within a sustainable budget.
Keywords: Food Grain, Agricultural Policy, Procurement (…)

The beautification/renovation of Jallianwala Bagh Memorial done by the central government through a Gujarat-based private company has come under criticism. It was inaugurated by the Prime Minister on 28th August. The details of observations made and objections raised by a range of people – scholars, common citizens, peoples’ representatives - from India and abroad have come in the press. Simultaneously the details of the changes made to the massacre site have also come in the public domain. (…)

by Arun Srivastava
The Indian judicial system is horizontally split in two hemisphere having divergent dimension and dynamics. While the lower judiciary has not succeeded in disconnecting itself from the colonial practices and mode of functioning, the higher judiciary is finding it tough to over throw the drag of the modern political institution and system and assert its own independent status and rights.
It is bound to happen as in both the cases the presiding officers are unable to (…)

The role of Indian revolutionaries, who operated from abroad to fight for country’s freedom, has not been adequately appreciated in the history of our freedom movement. Post-1857 war of Independence, the administration of the country passed from the hands of East India Company to the British Crown, who ruled with iron grip allowing no dissent. To escape the long hand of British rulers a band of patriotic Indians found it expedient to operate from abroad, to secure for their countrymen their (…)

In recent years increasing medical evidence has poured in regarding the serious adverse health impacts of prolonged standing and these advese impacts have been noticed in many lines of work as a serious occupational risk. Women workers are even more vulnerable than men workers.
In this context, The Tamil Nadu Government deserves praise for recently introducing an amendment in the Works and Establishment Act 1947 by adding section 22A which reads—“The premises of any establishment shall (…)

Review Essay
by Adityaprava Mozumder
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’The truths and lies of Nationalism:
As narrated by Charvak
by Partha Chatterjee
Permanent Black
in association with Ashoka University, New Delhi
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I am the people: Reflections on popular sovereignty today
by Partha Chatterjee
Columbia University Press, New York
2020, 208 Pages
ISBN: 9780231195492
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Partha Chatterjee, one of the leading scholars who has contributed immensely to the study of political (…)

MUSINGS
15 September 2021
As my Abba Jaan rests in his grave in a qabaristan in Uttar Pradesh, I sit back and thank our Creator that my father is not here to witness the horrifying communal build-ups in my home state, Uttar Pradesh. What, with today’s ruling lot hell bent on ruining the lives of hundreds and thousands of our fellow citizens.
Instead of paying heed to the dying children of Firozabad and the adjoining areas of the Western Uttar Pradesh belt, the rulers are busy (…)

The Editors Guild of India Address: 4/7- A, INS Building, Rafi Marg, New Delhi-110001
PRESS STATEMENT
September 11, 2021
The Editors Guild of India is deeply disturbed about the Income Tax “surveys” at the offices of news websites NewsClick.in and Newslaundry.com
On September 10, 2021, teams of IT officials visited the offices of the two organisations and conducted investigations through the day. While they were officially labelled as “surveys” by the IT officials, but as per the (…)