2023

If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn’t thinking. George S. Patton, a General in the US Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third United States Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
The question is not whether or not the convener of INDIA Alliance partners be made the convener of INDIA’s electoral campaign, the question is whether INDIA will offer a narrative independent (…)

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented itself as an unprecedented ‘crisis of livelihood’. Poor people, due to their nature of jobs and limited economic resilience, have received the maximum jolts. As per the IMF study (2021) , COVID-19 has pushed 97 million more people into poverty.
Ironically, the vulnerability of rural livelihoods is greater consequent upon any economic shocks, let alone the pandemic. This is attributed to a combination of factors operating at the household levels - heavy (…)

Despite the fact that several highly respected conservationists have been repeatedly advising that the best way of achieving success and sustainability in conservation efforts is by involving local communities in these efforts and not by displacing them, it appears that injustice instead of justice for local villagers is still the path pursued by some authorities and the banks financing them.
This certainly appears to have been the sad experience of the villagers including indigenous (…)

“Those who have succeeded and survived the fall of Nazism, are the bourgeoisie, which always has the economic means, forming a state within the state, and starting point of the new reaction … the workers of the factories carry the full weight of production, but wages are insufficient to buy the meagre rations available … the situation is very bad, and it is not impossible that we, who are so weakened by prisons and camps, will be the first victims of this misery … The militant syndicalists (…)

Even more than in the case of his predecessors, the Modi government has sought to use foreign policy-related initiatives for domestic purposes, namely to project himself as a world statesman and India under his reign as a growing and recognized world power, which it is not. Indeed, because of both Pakistan and China, India cannot even successfully claim to be the dominant and uncontested regional power. The costs incurred of playing host to the summit, as revealed by BJP leader Meenakshi (…)

We, the people of India, strongly condemn the unparliamentary and crass actions and words of Ramesh Bidhuri and the lack of action by the Speaker of the house against Ramesh Bidhuri on September 22, 2023.
Katua, Mulla, Atankwadi, Bharwa. The expletives called ‘madarzaad nangi gaaliyan’ in street language poured out of the mouth of BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri and landed in the face of BSP MP Kunwar Danish Ali. The camera caught two supposedly venerable former BJP ministers Harsh Vardhan and Ravi (…)

Press Release
September 29, 2023
Clamour for Teachers Grows in Jharkhand
Hundreds of agitated parents, children and concerned citizens took out a rally and staged a dharna outside the Block office in Manika (Latehar district) today to protest against the rampant shortage of school teachers in the area. Almost half of all government primary schools in Manika Block have a single teacher, according to the Jharkhand government’s own data.
The situation is getting worse year after year as (…)

BOOK REVIEW
Empire Building: The Construction of British India 1690-1860
by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Penguin/Viking ISBN: 9780670099689 Pages: xi + 239; Price: Rs 799
__0__ Yes, the English landed in India purportedly to trade before they began pitting one kingdom against the other amid a crumbling Mughal order to gain lordship over one of the biggest countries in the world. Before the British Raj started ruling India directly after the 1857 War of Independence, it was the East India (…)

Book Review
by B Madhavan
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In Search of Answers: A Memoir by K Saradamoni
Tulika Books August 2023 245 Pages ISBN : 978-81-958394-0-7
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Studying in the university, one meets students who are unsure where the discipline of economics would take them. Many see it as a degree that would land them high-paying jobs in consultancies and other corporate firms.
Fortunately, there are still a lot of people who are disillusioned by the model-building part of their courses and (…)

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