The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 (DPDP Bill) has received approval from the President of India after being passed by both houses of parliament. The Rajya Sabha unanimously approved the bill on August 9, while the Lok Sabha...
Prof Ram Puniyani, former faculty at IIT, Mumbai and President, Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS), Mumbai called for a “multilayered struggle against communalism, poverty, unemployment, and persistent campaign for the rights of workers, farmers, small...
Strengthening Nepal-India Cooperation, Modi's Visits created a strong positive vibe in Nepal-India bilateral relationship. Modi’s fifth visit was not only furthering to strengthen political, economic and cultural relations, but his first after the 2014 assumption of office was a...
IMAGE: Muslim women in Hyderabad protest over the hijab ban imposed in a few educational institutions in coastal Karnataka, February 15, 2022. Photograph: ANI Photo
Even as the raging hijab row is consolidating society, politics and elections on religious lines --...
IN colonial times, the peasantry had to borrow from private moneylenders. According to Provincial Banking Enquiry Committee reports, these moneylenders in turn borrowed from commercial banks. But while disbursing credit to the peasants and charging exorbitant interest rates, the...
Inter University Centre for Social Science Research and Extension (IUCSSRE), Mahatma Gandhi University is organizing The First Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Lecture on 30 September 2021 in association with the Institute for Global South Studies and Research (IGSSR).
The inaugural Lecture...
After two issues in a row surfaced, the once receding ‘India Out’ campaign has started gaining new traction in Maldives, to the embarrassment of President Mohamed Solih, the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), and others in the country who...
Way back in the late 1960s, American ecologist Garrett Hardin had posed a question: Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated?
Hardin himself answered: This is because in part what they have to say is new to...
