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I’ve given up writing longish posts but here’s one, a condensed summary of four recent analyses of the Punjab farmers’ struggle of 2020-21. (The papers by Jens Lerche and Surinder Jodhka were published in 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠, 48/7 (2021), the one by Jonathan Pattenden & Gaurav Bansal (…)
The Union information and broadcasting ministry refused permission for screening on the grounds that the documentary captures ’sensitive subject’.
New Delhi: ‘Kisan Satyagraha’, a documentary on the 2020-21 farmers’ protest, was barred from screening at the Bangalore International Film (…)
According to experts, the deletion of job cards outnumbered the additions under the scheme because of the new norm.
Hyderabad: The modified Aadhaar-based payment system (ABPS) for workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) made compulsory from (…)
The failure to address these grievances of the native Adivasis of these regions has eroded the trust between the villagers and security forces.
The war in Bastar has escalated multiple folds after the swearing-in of a new government in Chhattisgarh. Both the parties in this war have (…)
The political opposition should take lessons from people’s movements.
The truck-drivers’ associations called off their nationwide protest against the new penal provisions regarding hit-and-run cases in the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS). This came after the Ministry of Home Affairs held (…)
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and around the world; and two years since the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government capitulated and repealed the farm laws at the bedrock of the (…)
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 (…)
In 2015, after you were done gawking at the statue of Princess Di in the world’s largest department store, Harrods in London, you could head on over to the world-famous food halls where you could buy, among other high-priced indulgences, a type of tea branded “Ambootia Snow Mist.” At $7,864 per (…)
India’s flawed development process does not include the cost of restoring the lives and livelihoods of the displaced communities.
The issue of a viable resettlement, particularly for the Bhils, a Scheduled Tribe group displaced by the Sardar Sarovar Dam Project on the Narmada river, has been (…)
A study in Gujarat reveals why women who have been widowed during COVID-19 are struggling to access their land rights.
The still unfolding COVID-19 pandemic exacted a heavy toll in rural India during the second wave. It led to more deaths than the first wave, and rural fatalities were (…)
“Repeal the evil laws,” demands the placard in the picture above. A determined yearlong opposition by a popular farmers’ movement to three agricultural laws ultimately did force their repeal in the Indian parliament earlier this month. I recently spoke with Kavitha Kuruganti of the Samyukt Kisan (…)
Farmers end their agitation after the repeal of the three controversial farm laws but indicate that their new-found unity will continue.
On December 11, after a historic 380-day struggle against three contentious farm laws—the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) (…)
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha on December 9 announced suspension of the yearlong protests after the Union government agreed to the farmers’ pending demands.
New Delhi: Seven farmers’ rights groups from across the world have issued a joint statement congratulating Indian farmers on their historic (…)
After an entire year of demonizing, disparaging and denigrating the year-long farmers’ struggle, the largest non-violent mass movement in world history, Modi finally blinked on November 19 and announced the government would repeal the three ‘black’ pro-corporate farm laws in the forthcoming (…)
New Delhi: While announcing the repeal of the three contested farm laws, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made no attempt to hide his emotions. In his characteristic style, he spoke about his tapasya to improve the lives of farmers but regretted how, despite all his efforts to convince them of the (…)
Notwithstanding the fact that the government has announced its intention to repeal three contentious farm laws, farmers have vowed to continue their agitation until “all” of their demands are met.
Ghazipur (New Delhi): The morning smog hadn’t cleared yet. The sun was still behind a greyish (…)
This is a rare climbdown from the prime minister. But the space for dissent is still diminishing under his government
It is not often that Narendra Modi gives a televised address to the nation and it is met with relief, not disarray. The Indian prime minister’s previous frightening acts of (…)
After over 15 months of farmers protests, Modi has finally been made to accept defeat and to come out and announce the repeal of the three farm laws.
Indeed, this is a historic win. After dismantling the anti NRC/CAA movement, by staging Delhi riots and throwing the anti-Hindutva activists in (…)
What the Indian media can never openly admit is that the largest peaceful democratic protest the world has seen in years – certainly the greatest organised at the height of the pandemic – has won a mighty victory.
A victory that carries forward a legacy. Farmers of all kinds, men and women – (…)
Letter of Congratulations!
Congratulations on behalf of the peasant community of Bangladesh for the great victory and success in the peasants’ movement of India!
In a statement, the leaders of the steering committee of the Bangladesh Pragatisheel Krishak Sangram Parishad(Progressive Peasants (…)
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