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• Budget 2023-24: Continuity with Change | Atul Sarma and Shyam Sunder

  10 February 2023, by Atul Sarma

  by Atul Sarma and Shyam Sunder *
  Budget 2023-24 has been presented in the face of multiple challenges: slowing global growth, elevated core inflation and food prices, and looming recession in advanced countries. At another level, this being the last full budget before the general election in 2024 as also approaching election in nine states has its temptation to make it as voter friendly as possible.
  Nevertheless, the budget has restrained itself in offering any direct freebie. It has (…)

• Diving into the Lifeworld of the Refugees | Raj Kumar Thakur

  10 February 2023

  FILM REVIEW
  by Raj Kumar Thakur *
  The movie, Avataar: The Way of Water (2022) is a dive into the lifeworld of the refugees. While in the previous movie, i.e., Avataar (2009), the director James Cameron gave us an overview of how the imperialist zeal of human beings took them to the Navi tribe, this movie shows a revival of their zeal for minerals and a disguised attack on the Navi’s by posing as Navi. In the process, the movie gives us a vivid picture of how refugees are made. If one (…)

• Subjective Morality and the Murder of a Young Women | Chetna Trivedi

  10 February 2023

  by Chetna Trivedi *
  The rising incidents of violence in the modern-day context speak to us in multiple ways. It forces society to question and revisit its discourse on morality. Do we have a moral ground to hold anymore? Or morality has become subjective to the extent that it has been relegated to the individual sphere to decide whether a particular action has an ethically warranted consequence. The barbaric murder of a 26year old woman in Delhi by her live-in partner unveiled in the month (…)

• Revisiting Increasing Inequalities | Suranjita Ray

  10 February 2023, by Suranjita Ray

  The capitalist model of development based on neo-liberal ideology since 1990s privileged an integrated global market economy that became crucial to conquer economic inflation, remove imbalances in payment, increase economic growth rate and secure stabilization of the economy. Often referred to as the second-generation reforms, economic liberalisation saw a paradigm shift from closed economy to open economy that liberalised trade, interest rates, competitive exchange rates, and fiscal flow of (…)

• Big data and big dollars are changing cricket | Rushikesh Gawade

  10 February 2023

  by Rushikesh Gawade *
  Technology and the enhanced scope for money have reshaped cricket and the way people interact with it. But will the game’s essence be lost in the process?
  Cricket is famously revered in India. Sometimes referred to as a ‘religion’ because of its huge popularity, for many years when the national team played, people in villages across the country would crowd around televisions to watch. If a TV was not available, people would carry transistor radios to listen to the (…)

• Remembering Martin Luther King’s trip to India | Archishman Raju

  10 February 2023

  by Archishman Raju *
  It is one of the extraordinary stories of the 20th century that the civil rights movement in the United States adopted and advanced the ideas of the Indian Freedom Struggle. What allowed the Gandhian ideas of ahimsa and satyagraha, which derived from ancient Indian philosophy, to be so readily accepted and so successfully applied by Afro-American people? The story of this connection extends across time and space, with African American intellectuals like W.E.B Du Bois (…)

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  Nachiketa Desai (1951 - 2023) | Sagari Chhabra

  10 February 2023, by Sagari Chhabra

  Nachiketa Desai
  (26. 10. 1951 – 5.02 2023)
  Nachiketa Desai a journalist passed away on in Ahmedabad on Sunday, 5th February after a fall at his house. Why should a journalist’s death, make news when the entire profession has been dealt a dying blow by massive lay-offs, corporate takeover, dissolution of the Working Journalists’ Act and destroying the profession that was once held as the Fourth Estate?
  Nachiketa Desai was a special person; while he was courageously battling cancer and (…)

• Intimate Authoritarianism: The Ideology of Abuse | Lee Shevek

  10 February 2023

  by Lee Shevek *
  For far too long have radical communities and their discourses treated domestic violence and abuse as external from the considerations of revolutionary struggle. Abuse is seen as simply an interpersonal issue, springing from individual pathology which we must address by correcting certain behaviors and teaching better communication skills. The intervention tools of choice are frequently limited to restorative or transformative justice practices, with the ultimate aim of (…)

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  Statement on New Detention Centre in Assam | Campaign Against Detention / R2NC

  10 February 2023

  Right To Nationality and Citizenship Network
  January 31, 2023
  On 27 January 2023, India’s biggest detention centre was opened in Matia, Goalpara district, Assam. 68 persons were shifted to the centre, with more expected to be shifted soon. Sanctioned in 2018 by the Ministry of Home Affairs for Rs 46 crores, the 25 bigha centre can house between 3000 to 3,500 persons. The camp at Matia will replace the six detention centres operating out of jails in Goalpara, Kokrajhar, Silchar, (…)

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  AITUC deplores the unconstitutional activities by the Government Departments

  10 February 2023

  All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
  09th February 2022
  Press Release
  The appeal of Animal Welfare Board of India to mark February 14th as ‘cow hug day’ is shocking and outrageously appalling. The fact that the appeal comes with the approval of the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying is all the more deplorable. Such an unscientific balderdash, reportedly accepted and approved by a government department is absolutely unconstitutional, for, the Indian constitution (…)