August 7, 2020

Radhicka Kapoor on the labour market in India

Radhicka Kapoor speaks about the unequal labour market in India that saw a widening of disparities after Covid-19. Those at the bottom, with few skills, limited education & without security,…
▶09-Aug-2023
The India Forum

Toxic Ecologies

The ecological destruction from the Baghjan gas well blowout is part of the story of Assam’s economic development. Resource extraction has been foundational to the logic of politics in Assam but has…
▶06-Aug-2020
Dolly Kikon

Making Sense of China’s Dream

Why does the India-China border flare-up with regularity? For China, it is not about determining where the boundary lies, it is about establishing primacy.
▶30-Jul-2020
Deep Pal
Review Article
Book
Book Review

In the Name of the Nation

Sanjib Baruah's new book is 'a prescient ledger' of what Northeast India has become and at the same time 'a cautionary tale' of where muscular policy may take us in the rest…
▶30-Jul-2020
Sanjay Barbora

India’s Economic Dependence on China

India cannot afford to cut its economic links with China since imports from its northern neighbour dominate sections of the economy, especially in electronics and pharmaceutical intermediates. This…
▶23-Jul-2020
Biswajit Dhar, KS Chalapati Rao

The Unequal Effects of the Covid-19 Crisis on the Labour Market

The unequal labour market in India would have seen a widening of disparities after Covid-19 struck. Those at the bottom, with few skills, limited education & without security, would have been…
▶15-Jul-2020
Radhicka Kapoor

Covid-19 and the Spectres of Colonialism

India’s lockdowns and questionable experimentation with vaccines and drugs to fight Covid-19 eerily mimic its colonial past.
▶09-Jul-2020
Pratik Chakrabarti

Gendering the Pandemic in the Prison

'For women, prisons are built with stones of "patriarchal" law. It is time to campaign against incarcerated pregnancies and custodial childbirths as making for cruel, inhuman and…
▶09-Jul-2020
Pratiksha Baxi, Navsharan Singh

The Pedagogical Problems of the Census

The policy in the census of ‘rationalising’ languages has a debilitating impact on the speakers of unrecognised languages; they are condemned not to access education in their own languages.
▶07-Jul-2020
Aayush Agarwal, Shivakumar Jolad