Written by Praveen Verma The ongoing farmers’ protests have seen the return of khap panchayats to the arena of political mobilisation. In the intersection of the farmers’ movement and khaps, there is a need to reflect on what questions face khap panchayats and what they …
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Written By Divya Mangla Food is the most essential component of life. As soon as a child steps into the world, a mother feeds the infant. After several months, it is the farmer that carries on with the custom of providing nutrition to a child …
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The large presence of women farmers at protests at Singhu, Tikri, and, lately, the Ghazipur borders of Delhi against the three new agriculture laws, marks a significant moment in the continuum of women’s political mobilisation in the country. Coming against the backdrop of the Supreme …
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India’s recent skirmish with Twitter is not an isolated case where a government has locked horns with US tech giants that have acquired a larger-than-life presence across the world. Nowhere have the arguments on big tech been more intense than in the US, where the …
Continue Reading The large presence of women farmers at protests at Singhu, Tikri, and, lately, the Ghazipur borders of Delhi against the three new agriculture laws, marks a significant moment in the continuum of women’s political mobilisation in the country. Coming against the backdrop of the Supreme …
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The Congress may have, of late, posited itself as a champion of the concept of Minimum Support Price (MSP), but sifting through the track record of the party-led governments in the country, one finds that they not only worked to undermine and undercut the MSP …
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Youth action throughout history has shaken the status quo. In recent times, young people have been the heart of citizen mobilisations across the world — against authoritarian regimes in the Arab world and Chile, global finance and corporate impunity in the Occupy movement, racism in …
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