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25 September 2020

Farm bills are seen by farmers to deliver freedom — not to them, but to private capital

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Written by HIMANSHU  On Friday, September 25, farmers’ organisations across the country gave a call for a bandh to protest the three bills p...

Delhi riots chargesheet invents conspiracy and enemy, as per script

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta The idea is not just to deflect attention from violence and discrimination, it is to declare any critic of the government...
24 September 2020

What is the basis of MSP? How is it fixed, and how binding is it?

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Indian Express Explained   A mere sentence, to the effect that nothing in this Act shall stop the government from announcing MSPs and undert...
22 September 2020

Farm Bills will give farmers greater choice. Opposition must rise above partisan politics

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Bhupender Yadav In 1947, when India gained Independence, the urban-rural income ratio was estimated to be 2:1. That ratio now stands at abou...
20 September 2020

It’s a no green signal from the farm world

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Himanshu In a virtual rally, the Prime Minister blamed the Opposition parties for misleading farmers about the three Bills on agriculture, i...
18 August 2020

Current crisis has exposed limitations of central banking framework

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Ishan Bakshi  Over the past few months, the Reserve Bank of India, along with the monetary policy committee, has undertaken a slew of measur...
7 August 2020

National Education Policy 2020: What is needed is a new kind of thinking

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Written by Shyam Menon One thing struck me as a major difference between the new National Education Policy and its predecessor. The previous...
30 July 2020

Poverty, not age of marriage, is responsible for women’s poor health indicators

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Written by Mary E John We know only too well that India is usually near the bottom of the international rankings on gender indicators....

Reading the New Education Policy 2020

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Written by Ritika Chopra What purpose does an NEP serve? An NEP is a comprehensive framework to guide the development of education in...

National Education Policy 2020 needs a close scrutiny, a full debate, for what it says and what it doesn’t

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Kumkum Roy The National Education Policy, an ambitious and complex document, laying down a road map for the next two decades, has be...
10 June 2020

Where’s our George Floyd?

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Suhas Palshikar Will there be a George Floyd moment in India’s public life? Surely, it is not merely about outrage over an act of injustic...