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Tearing asunder lives
In this issue
23-12-2016
31 STORIES
Literature
Roughness and warmth
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Industry: State reports
Industry in trouble
Political fallout
Political rollercoaster
The seemingly never-ending glitches in the demonetisation drive and the pressure of expectations from the ground seem to be pushing the government int
Lead Story
Shock and death
The impact of the announcement banning notes on the common man’s life has been so severe that it pushed scores of them to the point of death.
Rural banking
Bankless, cashless
Banking operations in rural areas have come to a grinding halt, and even three weeks after the demonetisation announcement there seemed to be no respi
Reality check
Modi’s ‘model villages’
The adverse impact of demonetisation has not spared the two villages adopted by the development man in his parliamentary constituency of Varanasi.
Books
After the Arab Spring
A well-timed effort at explaining why the dreams of the Arab Spring were crushed and why the West Asia and North Africa region is now experiencing suc
Cooperatives
Blocked artery
Kerala is worried about the demonetisation drive’s impact on its cooperative banks and societies which form the backbone of the State’s rural economy.
Kashmir
The Kashmir difference
Weather and violence have always made Kashmiris prepare for a rainy day; demonetisation was just another storm that passed the State without having an
Agriculture: State reports
Down and out
Books
Wildlife initiatives
On the excellent model of wildlife reintroduction and conservation practices of the Kanha Tiger Reserve.
Perspective
Money and social contract
We are now in relatively uncharted economic territory in India. But this also means that we may be entering an entirely new phase of our social contra
Interview: Utsa Patnaik
‘Government has confiscated the poorest sections’ wages and working capital’
Interview with Utsa Patnaik, professor emerita of economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Interview: Hannan Mollah, AIKS
Compounding a crisis
Interview with Hannan Mollah of the AIKS.
Memoirs
A youth icon
Vivan Sundaram recounts his “exceptional experience” at the World Youth Festival in Havana in 1978.
Legal issues
Legal challenges
When the government declared high-denomination currency notes as not being legal tender in 1978, it did so through an Ordinance. In contrast, the Nove
Interview: A.K. Padmanabhan, CITU
‘Government claims made as an afterthought’
Interview with A.K. Padmanabhan, president, Centre of Indian Trade Unions.
What people say
Voices from the villages
What some farmers and agricultural workers at the All India Kisan Sabha rally in New Delhi on November 24 had to say.
Industry
Corporate, not cashless
Corporate India consists of many small and medium units that need cash to pay workers, buy inputs and distribute goods. Hence, the currency shortage h
Lead Story
Severe slowdown
Small manufacturers in Maharashtra who operate on cash may close shop. This will lead to retrenchment.
Informal sector: State reports
Lives put on hold
Cuba
Defying imperialism from its backyard
Despite the sanctions the U.S. imposed on Cuba and the many attempts it made to get rid of Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution has not collapsed and Ca
Fidel Castro
Valediction for the Comandante
Fidel Castro’s vision was at the root of what his comrades and then increasingly larger numbers of his compatriots began to aspire for. Fidel, the ori
Tribute
Fidel Castro: Soldier of socialism
Fidel Castro, who defended the values of the revolution that he led in his country and extended his moral and material support to the forces of progre
Tribute
‘Fidel’s vision will live on’
Interview with Sitaram Yechury, general secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Tribute
Fidel Castro: Revolutionary legacy
No other Communist leader in the post-Second World War period had such an internationalist vision as Castro.
Demonetisation
Bearing the brunt
Demonetisation has thrown into disarray the livelihoods and incomes of informal workers, who account for the bulk of the labour force.
Cover story
A nation in agony: How demonetisation has hit India where it hurts
Narendra Modi’s “surgical strike on black money” through demonetisation tears asunder the lives of vast sections of the poor, promoting a gigantic tra
V. Sridhar
Informal sector
How demonetisation in India crushed the informal economy
The informal economy, which has strong links with the formal economy, has been hit hard and this may have catastrophic implications for society as a w
Agricultural growth
Demonetisation’s devastating impact on rural India
Demonetisation is likely to adversely affect agricultural growth and shrink rural incomes and consumer demand. It has already created a serious credib
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