Sainath/PARI India’s agrarian crisis has gone beyond the agrarian. It’s a crisis of society. Maybe even a civilisational crisis, with perhaps the largest body of small farmers and labourers on Earth fighting to save their livelihoods. The agrarian crisis…
The Debate: The peasant assertion in India Prabhat Patnaik G.K. Chesterton has a well-known detective story involving Father Brown called "The Invisible Man", where 'invisibility' is supposed to characterize the postman: one is so used to seeing the postman come…
Rohit Azad With prices close to or over Rs 70 and 80 per litre, diesel and petrol are more expensive today than they have ever been. The recent cut of 1 paisa by the Indian Oil Corporation (ostensibly by mistake),…
Arvind Subramanian quit his position as chief economic advisor to the finance ministry and decided to return to his career in academic research in the United States of Americas. He cited personal reasons behind his decision. The Union finance minister…
The Economy ONE of the major planks of the BJP campaign in 2014 was that the economy had been reduced to shambles under the UPA - growth was flagging, the rupee had lost ground against the dollar, exports were sluggish…
FT, FEBRUARY 6, 2018 German workers won a key victory in their fight for a better work-life balance when a big employers’ group agreed to demands from the country’s largest trade union for the introduction of a 28-hour working week.…
Aadhaar Act is a black act, it declares an open war against citizens’ rights & their sensitive information Centre, several States & Banks violating Supreme Court’s order on biometric UID/Aadhaar likely to face music In a significant development in the matter of Unique…
Sri Lanka barred social messaging networks including Facebook on Wednesday to stem violence against minority Muslims after mob attacks continued despite the imposition of emergency on the Buddhist-majority island. Tension has been growing between the two communities in Sri Lanka…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, working in conjunction with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Internet technology companies, is intensifying its censorship of selected websites and social media accounts. According to recent data, 1,329 social media URLs were blocked on the…
HIGHER education in India is facing a twin danger today. One is its commoditisation, by which is meant not just the fact that higher education itself is becoming a commodity but also that the products of higher education, ie, those…