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Harsh Mander
Locking Down the Poor: The Pandemic and India’s Moral Centre
17 Jan 2021
Home to the largest number of undernourished people on the planet, India imposed the world’s harshest lockdown for the pandemic.
Navya Sony, Shagun Bhargava
Everything You Need to Know About Central Vista Judgment and Dissent
12 Jan 2021
The timing and opacity of the project has led to severe criticisms given it was cleared during the ongoing pandemic while the economy is struggling.
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Economy May Contract by 7.7% in 2020-21: Govt’s First Advanced Estimate
07 Jan 2021
In the current fiscal, the manufacturing sector is likely to see a contraction of 9.4%. Private final consumption has been estimated to shrink at -9.5% against 5.3% year-on-year.
Ishupal Singh Kang
How Long Must Poorer Nations Wait for Access to Covid Vaccine?
07 Jan 2021
For all the talk about vaccines being a global public good, industrialised nations are dragging their feet on an arrangement proposed by South Africa and India at the WTO for equitable and widespread…
Indira Khurana
Future Trade in Water Bodes Poorly for Earth and its Communities
07 Jan 2021
The decision to bet on water turns it into a tool to exercise social, cultural, economic and territorial control.
Prudhviraj Rupavath
Hard Hit by Pandemic, How Female Garment Workers are Fighting Exploitation in AP and Karnataka
30 Dec 2020
An estimated 40% of garment and textile workers in Karnataka and about 50% in Andhra Pradesh’s Hindupur region lost their jobs after COVID-19 outbreak.
Gyan Pathak
Poor Girls must be Provided Special Assistance in Education During Pandemic
26 Dec 2020
Girl children were most affected because of the prevailing bias against the girl child.
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No Country for the Poor: Inhumane Evictions in Chennai
25 Dec 2020
More than 54,000 people have been evicted across 22 states during the COVID-19 pandemic in India, according to a finding by the Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN).
Prudhviraj Rupavath
Hyderabad University Students’ Protest, Demand that Admin Fills up Vacant Seats
22 Dec 2020
‘With the change in (admission) procedure – even before the first round of interviews – nearly 70 vacancies were counted of which 68 belonged to the reserved category.’
Ektara Collective, Mukulika R
Ektara Collective: Building Resistance, One Film a Time
11 Dec 2020
For a long time, cinema was controlled by certain classes and castes that shaped mainstream narrative and aesthetics.