2022

If India is to seize the advantage of its burgeoning young workforce, it needs to strategically implement economic and industrial policies.
There is a new urgency in India to create jobs for the rapidly growing number of young people set to enter the workforce in the next two decades.
India will account for 20 percent of the worldwide increase in the working-age population over the two decades from 2020. Projections from the World Bank show that between 2020 and 2040, India’s population (…)

by Achin Vanaik
It was never expected that the response to the war on Ukraine of the Left internationally, would be so divided. Broadly there have been four positions held by those who consider themselves to be anti-capitalist socialists of one kind or the other. The arguments, rationalisations and justifications provided by the first three of these groups do, in some degree or the other, overlap.
The first group (which is certainly the smallest of the four categories) includes those who (…)

[The following post appeared on November 8 2022 on Thomas Piketty’s Blog ]
Let’s say it straight out: it is impossible to seriously fight global warming without a profound redistribution of wealth, both within countries and internationally. Those who claim otherwise are lying to the world. And those who claim that redistribution is certainly desirable, sympathetic, etc., but unfortunately technically or politically impossible, are lying just as much. They would be better off defending what (…)

The Editors Guild of India Address: 4/7- A, INS Building, Rafi Marg, New Delhi-110001
PRESS STATEMENT
November 18th, 2022
The Editors Guild of India is deeply concerned about the recent threats issued to journalists working in Kashmir, by alleged terror organisations, and the subsequent resignations of five of the journalists from their respective media outlets.
Journalists in Kashmir now find themselves in the firing line from both the state authorities as well as terrorists, in (…)

DELHI UNION OF JOURNALISTS (REGD) Flat No.29, Central Market, Connaught Place, New Delhi-1 Phone: 23413459, Email: duj.delhi[at]gmail.com
18 November, 2022
PRESS RELEASE
The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) has expressed serious concern at reports that the Prime Minister’s Office and select ministries are trying to collect details of all institutions and clubs, including press bodies, clubs and conference centers, to monitor the internal affairs of such bodies.
It calls upon the (…)

Book Review by Soumya Saha __0__
The Curious Trajectory of Caste in West Bengal Politics: Chronicling Continuity and Change by Ayan Guha
Leiden/Boston: Brill 2022 Price: €145.00 309 pages Hardback-ISBN: 978-90-04-51181-1 E-Book -ISBN: 978-90-04-51456-0
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Since the demise of the Left Front government in West Bengal, scholarly interest in the changing political dynamics in the state, particularly in the political role of caste has significantly increased (Chandra et. al, 2016; (…)

BOOK REVIEW
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Tales of Crimes Past: A Casebook of Crime in Colonial India
by Sunil Nair
Hachette India
Pages: 226; Price: Rs 599
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They were thugs, they held the authorities in contempt, they strangled innocent travellers at will, and they never showed remorse for the innumerable cold-blooded murders they committed. But they were a bizarre lot. Before they set out to kill, they studied good and bad omens. Welcome to the world of thuggery in British India.
According to (…)

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Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 12, 2022
António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general in blunt speech at the COP27 summit in Egypt warned that the world is doomed unless there is a urgent action to counter climate change. We have seen successive world summits in the since the 1990s where world leaders make tall promises but the required action doesn’t follow. Powerful lobbyists representing the fossil fuel economy and multinational firms known for polluting & (…)

‘The spirit behind the [Economically Weaker Section] EWS law (now ratified by our highest court) achieves exactly what it aims for and struggles hard to avoid stating openly—reservation for the Hindu upper caste’, observed Sociology professor of Delhi University Prof. Satish Deshpande, reacting to the majority judgement of the Supreme Court on November 7, the last working day of the outgoing Chief Justice of India, Justice U.U. Lalit. Significantly Justice Lalit and Justice Ravindra Bhat (…)