Geography Archives: India

There can be no doubt whatsoever that these weapons and ammunition were actually used by Israel in Gaza; in fact missile fragments labelled “Made in India” were found in a UN-run school in Nuseirat in Gaza sheltering displaced Palestinians, after an Israeli raid on it that killed 33 persons.

While popular energy can fill streets and win elections, social power is the patient, organised capacity of the working class to transform society and make dignity the common sense of the age.

The movement faces the dual challenge of surviving sustained state pressure while addressing questions about its strategic relevance in a rapidly changing India. Whether it can adapt to new social realities or whether it will continue to decline remains uncertain.

Decades of determined U.S. efforts to foment antagonism between the vast neighbours have come spectacularly undone, due to the sheer weight of geopolitical reality.

It is clearly not a political agitation; it clearly has no “leaders”. The Bharatiya Janata Party is adept at dealing with “leaders”, by dividing them, by defaming them, by corrupting them, by buying them up, and by threatening them with the Enforcement Directorate and the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act; had this agitation been led by “leaders” it would not have gone as far as it did.

The immediate demands of the recent student-youth rallies in Delhi and elsewhere related to the incessant leaks of examination papers.

The Delhi police had controversially barged into the CPI(M)’s headquarters in pursuit of this old warrant.

Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about.

An amendment to the National Food Security Act (NFSA) under which the AAY operates is about to be enacted under which instead of 35 kilogrammes per household per month, 7 kilogrammes per person per month would henceforth be distributed, up to a maximum of 35 kilogrammes per household per month.

These two conflicts, the aerial and the environmental, are interconnected. Both reflect a struggle for survival shaped by a Pakistani state that has prioritized military spending over water security, geopolitical interests over ecological planning, and the interests of large landowners over those of small farmers.

What is true of the world economy as a whole holds true for countries like India which have enormous labour reserves inherited from the colonial times, reserves hidden away in particular in vast agrarian sectors.

The objective of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is to establish a Hindu state (“Hindu Rashtra”) in India.

India’s citizens are witnessing a remarkable inversion of democracy: a government choosing its voters rather than the other way around.

NewsClick and various unions welcomed the verdict, hailing the Delhi High Court ruling as a strong stand in support of independent journalism and a warning against the misuse of state power.

Rare consensus-making effort. Ministry of External Affairs Spokesman Randhir Jaiswal addresses Inter- Ministerial Briefing on Recent Developments in West Asia, in New Delhi.

Today India has a level of income inequality higher than at any time in the previous one hundred years, and one of the highest in the world

The Indian economy at present is in the grip of a serious crisis, manifested above all in a sharp fall of the rupee and an acceleration of inflation.

China’s tourism problem emerged from sudden prosperity. Ours emerges from sudden prosperity filtered through a society shaped by hierarchy, scarcity, low trust, and an intensely transactional relationship with status.

The authentic rage fueling the CJP is a volatile political asset.

The government may appease speculators by offering some blandishments in the form of a higher interest rate (may be on some specific government bonds), or some tax concessions, as an earlier government had done in 2013 when there had been a similar speculative attack on the rupee; but it will have an immediate adverse effect on the working people by cutting them out from fiscal resources or subjecting them to the recessionary effects of an interest rate hike.