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, by DHAR Dipsita
Gig workers in India face an uphill battle — but if they organize, they can win
Sarita held the red flag on her shoulder. It felt a little uncomfortable as a first-timer. But as the union leaders began talking about their plans for the protest, the flag settled into both of her palms. (...)
, by YADAV Srishti
November 2023 marks three years of the historic farmers’ protests in India that captured the imagination of people in India and around the world; and two years since the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government capitulated and repealed the farm laws at the bedrock of the (...)
, by CHOUDHURY Angshuman
Should warm bilateral relations come in the way of India voting to halt an intense armed conflict?
On Friday, India abstained from voting on a United Nations General Assembly resolution that called for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce” between Israel and Hamas. This (...)
, by KUMAR Ashutosh, ROBSON Ellen Beatrice, SANA Eedy
Haphazard construction has made the region more vulnerable to increasingly intense rainfall.
Three-quarters of annual rain in the Himalayas arrives in the monsoon season from June to September. Within this rainy period are sudden and extremely intense cloudbursts, which often “pop” over a (...)
, by BAL Hartosh Singh
This is an edited excerpt from a keynote address delivered at Stanford University, on 10 October, while accepting the 2023 Shorenstein Journalism Award on behalf of The Caravan.
I know that I speak against the backdrop of the horrors unfolding in Israel and Gaza. At such a time, there is (...)
, by TYSMANS Nash
Informality is the rule, not the exception. Not only are the majority of workers in Asia working in the informal sectors, many are simply not recognized as workers, nor do they always see themselves as such. The importance of recognition lies in not only the extension of legal protections but (...)
, by GroundXero
The Indian government under Narendra Modi have criminalised all opposition to Israel’s genocide campaign in Gaza and intensified crackdown against all who are coming out in solidarity with the Palestinian people and its struggle against Israel’s for their right to self-determination and (...)
, by DHAR Sushovan, ROUSSET Pierre
India hosted the G20 summit on September 9 and 10, an event that dominated international headlines. General elections are due to be held next year. This is an opportunity to take a look at the domestic situation and Narenda Modi’s policies in India, as well as the geopolitical and diplomatic (...)
, by PCUL (India), SRIVASTAVA Kavita, SURESH V.
PUCL Condemns NIA Raids on Human Rights Defenders and Rights Organisation in AP and Telangana on 02nd October, 2023
PUCL strongly condemns and deplores the raids by (National Investigation Agency) NIA officials on 02nd October, 2023 at 62 locations across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states (...)
, by MINJ Nolina
Leaders have faced harassment and intimidation. Police have filed cases against many protestors, claiming that the agitations are supported by Maoists.
The road to Todgatta is long, rocky, and winding. The village is located in Etapalli tehsil of Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district, close to (...)
, by BHATTACHARYA Urvie
‘State of Working India 2023: Social Identities and Labour Market Outcomes’ finds that while growth created regular wage jobs for all castes, the rates differed significantly.
New Delhi: While the growth of the economy since the 1980’s has pulled millions of workers out of agriculture and (...)
, by Radical Socialist (India)
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 (...)
, by MOHANTY Aishwarya
In August, police filed criminal cases against Adivasi-Dalit anti-mining protestors, arrested 25 in southeastern Odisha, which holds more than half of India’s bauxite reserves, and allegedly abducted a global environmental prize winner. Acting on orders of the Biju Janata Dal government of (...)
, by ROY Arundhati
The text of the writer’s speech as she received the 45th European Essay Prize on September 12.
I thank the Charles Veillon Foundation for honoring me with the 2023 European Essay Award. It may not be immediately apparent how delighted I am to receive it. It’s even possible that I am (...)
, by KAUL Nitasha
The move to rename India as ‘Bharat’ is part of a push by the Hindu nationalist right to create an ideologically pure state that in reality never existed.
The invitations to a state dinner to mark India’s hosting of this year’s G20 came not, as you’d expect, from the office of the president (...)
, by JOSEPH Jeff
A ban on purse-seine fishing in Tamil Nadu has threatened thousands of fishers’ livelihoods – and they are refusing to give up without a fight
“There were young people with degrees taking to purse seines because of the pay,” Karthi P said. “It was easy work.”
He was one of those. Having (...)
, by DHAR Sushovan, ROUSSET Pierre
Two years ago, Burma (Myanmar) saw a huge non-violent movement of civic disobedience in response to a military putsch. However, it was ultimately forced to engage in armed self-defense in the face of merciless repression. Was it any different in India? Was independence, the liberation from (...)
, by KRISHNAN Kavita
India’s democrats have missed a chance to attack a policy that helps Putin’s war and undermines India’s democracy.
In the 18 months since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, India’s Narendra Modi has been one of Vladimir Putin’s most valuable tacit supporters. The two have much in (...)
, by MILLER Ian
On this day, 5 years ago, the Supreme Court of India read down the anti-sodomy provisions of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.
Revisiting from Dec 2018, Ian Miller on the limits of the Supreme Court decision that decriminalised same-sex acts in India:
On the limits of the Supreme (...)
, by PATNAIK Prabhat
What’s unfolding in Ashoka University reflects the ascendancy of a fascistic state. No country can be self-reliant if its universities are effectively destroyed and reduced to coaching centres.
When Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rule in the country is dead and gone, a good deal of the damage (...)
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