Dharavi, located in Mumbai, is known to have maintained one of the largest slums in Asia. With a population of a million, the place remained ill-famed for long, due to its association with many underworld dons and parallel economy...
The distress to which lakhs of migrant workers were suddenly exposed by the Narendra Modi government’s decision to announce a three-week-long lockdown at four hours’ notice with zero planning, has also highlighted a crucial aspect of the Indian economy....
The media, the Indian as well as the international, have covered the continuing plight of the inter-state migrants resulting from the nation-wide lock-down announced with a calculated abruptness, not uncharacteristic of the Government of India (GOI) judging from the...
The Times of India featured a tantalising commentary last week titled Kerala shows the way: Decades of investment in public health is helping the state control Covid-19. The title is self-explanatory. The commentary showered fulsome praise, rightly so, on...
The current pandemic has brought to the fore, and with exceptional clarity, the fundamental contradiction underlying contemporary globalization, namely, the contradiction between the interests of finance and those of the people. Indeed this contradiction, which characterizes the era of...
The regional entity in South Asia—South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC)—seems to have a new lease of life with the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, taking an unexpected initiative to have a Conference of the leaders of...
In the wake of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) UN High Commissioner,
Michele Bachelet, has filed an intervention in the Supreme Court
petition challenging the constitutionality of the Citizenship Amendment
Act, as she is critical of CAA. Responding to her,...
Changes in estimation methods have of late made statistics on the Indian economy increasingly bewildering; besides, whenever the statistics show the performance of the economy in a poor light, the BJP government simply suppresses them. Nothing however can suppress...
Vakkom Moulavi, a pioneer of Kerala renaissance and founder of Swadeshabhimani is being recognised for the first time in his hometown, Vakkom—in the district of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, the South Indian State—with a Memorial and Research Centre. Vakkom Moulavi Memorial...
THE National Statistical Office
(NSO) has decided not to release the quinquennial survey data on
consumer expenditure for 2017-18. This is because these data, leaked by The Business Standard
(November15) show a drop of 3.7 per cent in real...
