(Business Standard) Many Indians who had clawed their way out of poverty face grim job prospects and carry heavy debt loads.
Read More »Article: Here’s Why Kashmir is anxious over the delimitation exercise
(The Wire) While the redrawing of J&K's electoral map has been on agenda of the BJP, stakeholders fear the exercise could be used to reduce Kashmir’s upper hand in J&K politics.
Read More »Article: Stan Swamy’s death shows India’s judiciary fails to protect individual liberty
(The Wire) The Indian criminal justice system, in spite of following the maxim “innocent until proven guilty”, is not designed to protect individual liberty.
Read More »Feature: Rural India sinks deeper into debt as COVID-19 wipes out work
(The Wire) Interviews with 75 households in a cluster of eight villages in Uttar Pradesh showed household incomes have slumped nearly 75% on average, and almost two thirds of the households have taken on debt.
Read More »Feature: Police fail to book SAD, BJP leaders for creating communal disharmony
(The Wire) Student leader Nasir Kheuhami approached a Srinagar court in connection with the case pertaining to alleged forced conversion row of a Kashmiri Sikh woman in the Valley after police stations refused to register an FIR against two politicians and a journalist for creating ‘communal disharmony’.
Read More »Article: Redrawing maps of assembly seats raises fears in Kashmir
(Anadolu Agency) India's resolve to redraw borders, reallocate assembly seats raises fears of marginalization of dominant Muslim populace
Read More »Article: Father Stan Swamy: A soft-spoken man with a fire within
(The Wire) Swamy dedicated his life to Adivasi rights. And that's what made him so 'dangerous' in the eyes of the state.
Read More »Article: Akhil Gogoi’s claim must be investigated in the interest of a credible rule of law
(The Wire) Akhil Gogoi's allegation that the NIA tried to recruit him into the RSS is now in the public domain, and must be probed for the sake of all those involved.
Read More »Article: Does raising questions on the rights of Adivasis make me a ‘Deshdrohi’?
(The Wire) This short note was written by Fr Stan Swamy after the Jharkhand authorities filed a case of sedition against him for supporting the Adivasi Pathalgadi movement in July 2018. In this note he asked how questioning the validity, legality and justness of several steps taken by the government and the ruling class led to being charged with sedition.
Read More »Article: Return of India’s poverty challenge
(Hindustan Times) The first warning bell on this count came much before the Covid-19 pandemic. In November 2019, findings of the 2017-18 Consumption Expenditure Survey (CES), the first large sample round after 2011-12, were leaked in the media. The leaked findings suggested that average monthly per capita consumption expenditure (MPCE) levels had fallen between 2011-12 and 2017-18 in real terms, something which had never happened in four decades.
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