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The former UPA government claimed to be a champion of social justice. In August 2005, barely two months after unleashing the Salwa Judum against Adivasis, it provided a rural employment guarantee under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. 
ECONOMY

The great inequality myth that rules India

For decades, policymakers and businessmen sold the hoax that making the rich richer would lift all boats. History proves them catastrophically wrong.
Ashoka Mody
BOOK REVIEW

The invisible she: How working-class women bear the weight of India’s economy

Neha Dixit’s The Many Lives of Syeda X is uniquely authentic and eye-opening in portraying womenfolk in big South Asian cities.
Zakia Soman
Human Struggles

Men at sea: The untethered lives of deep-sea fisherfolk

For the fisherfolk of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, earning a living often means sailing on the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal for months on end.
Joseph Rahul
AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS

Punjab faces its worst paddy procurement crisis in 25 years

In mandis across Punjab, unsold paddy rots under open skies as the Centre and State play blame games, pushing farmers towards desperation and debt.
Ashutosh Sharma
Tribute

Bibek Debroy (1955-2024): The polymath policy advisor

He wrote on many things from game theory to Sanskrit epics, and advanced transformative ideas to steer India from planned to market economy.
M. Suresh Babu

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At a Dell Computers factory in Sriperumbudur in Kancheepuram district. Tamil Nadu is home to numerous multinationals and ranks among the top States in the ease of doing business criterion.

The decline of trade unions in Tamil Nadu

The winds of liberalisation have shaken the foundations of labour welfare across the country, and Tamil Nadu is no exception.
Ilangovan Rajasekaran
Samsung workers’ strike entered its 25th day on October 3, in Kancheepuram.

What did the striking Samsung workers want?

Their demand was simple—registration of the union under the Trade Unions Act of 1926. But Samsung used its name as a shield against worker rights.
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At the Samsung workers’ protest in Sriperumbudur near Chennai on September 24.

Tamil Nadu’s labour movement finds new voice in Samsung strike victory

The police action against the protesting workers and the government’s tardy response raised questions about the DMK’s stand on workers’ rights.
Ilangovan Rajasekaran
Street children at a slum in Hyderabad, a file photograph. Children comprise the most vulnerable section of the population in terms of food and nutrition security.

India’s 2024 GHI rank: Marginal improvement masks deep-rooted nutrition crisis

Child wasting, stunting, and undernutrition still remain formidable challenges, compounded by the lack of critical data.
T.K. Rajalakshmi
The Nobel Prize for Economics being announced at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on October 14.  

2024 Economics Nobel winners sanitise colonial history through economic theory

Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson’s thesis on institutional development ignores colonialism’s systematic exploitation and wealth transfer.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
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