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Vikas Rawal, Jesim Pais
Prime Minister’s Claims About COVID-19 Relief Package Debunked
01 Jul 2020
True to his image, the prime minister vastly overstated what the government has done to bring relief to the people and the scale of assistance provided during the last three months.
Vikas Rawal, Karthik A Manickem, Vivek Rawal
Are Distress Deaths Necessary Collateral Damage of Covid-19 Response?
14 Apr 2020
The most significant cause of distress deaths so far has been the fear of the disease or stigma associated with the COVID-19 infections
Vikas Rawal, Vaishali Bansal
Liberalising Tenancy or Grabbing Land of the Poor?
03 Nov 2019
NSSO data shows that of the total land under tenancy in 2011-12, about 36% was taken on lease by top 30% landowners.
Vikas Rawal
Dealing with Agrarian Crisis or Hoodwinking Farmers
05 Jul 2018
Recent years have seen a sharp deceleration in the minimum support prices (MSP) announced by the government.
Vikas Rawal, Newsclick Production
Nagri and the (In)Direct Benefit Transfer for Subsidised Food
14 Feb 2018
The government has been aiming to replace the system of provision of subsidised grain under the public distribution system with a system of cash transfers. This is being done ostensibly to get rid of…
Vikas Rawal
Lives of Peasants in India #13
01 Jan 2018
Pilasaheb S. Deshmukh: A Sugarcane Farmer From Kolhapur.
Vikas Rawal
Lives of Peasants in India #2
22 Dec 2017
Moolchand and Parvati Kol: Adivasi peasants from Ginj in Allahabad district.
Vikas Rawal
Agrarian Conditions and Recent Peasant Struggles in Sikar
25 Sep 2017
Sikar, situated in Shekhawati region of Rajasthan, has a glorious history of peasant struggles.
Vikas Rawal
Concealing the No Jobs, No Growth Record of the Modi Government
28 Aug 2017
The post-liberalisation period is widely perceived to have been a period of jobless growth.
Vikas Rawal
Economic Implications of Restrictions on Cow Slaughter
13 Jul 2017
A ban on cow slaughter would either result in more and more unproductive animals being killed in most unscientific and cruel ways or would entail such a high cost for maintaining unproductive animals…