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  • Rising unemployment: The threat within

    Last week, there were three days of public violence in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. At stake were not religion or religious differences. Nor was it offence to religion. What took place was an outpouring of simmering anger and resentment that does not bode well for the state or the nation. Angry young aspirants for a…

  • Enough Sermons on Climate, It’s Time for ‘Just’ Action

    As Britain readies to host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow in November this year, there is a concerted effort to push countries towards publicly endorsing and adopting ‘Net Zero’—a carbon neutral emission norm—as policy. This is a demand for an inflexible, near-impossible, time-bound agenda to achieve what is…

  • Book Discussion: Poverty Narratives and Power Paradoxes in International Trade Negotiations and Beyond

    In Poverty Narratives and Power Paradoxes in International Trade Negotiations and Beyond, Amrita Narlikar argues that, contrary to common assumption, modern-day politics displays a surprising paradox: poverty — and the powerlessness with which it is associated — has emerged as a political tool and a formidable weapon in international negotiation. The success of poverty narratives,…

  • Has Dharavi Model made us lose sight of its real problems

    The eight million residents of Mumbai’s Dharavi are not concerned about whether the ‘Dharavi model’ to tackle the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was science or serendipity. They would rather leave that to the experts and media. The people of Dharavi are, instead, more concerned about issues such as job loss, unemployment, hunger and shortage of…