Drought and Farmer Suicides 101 for Manu Joseph
Not sure how to do this, given that this is a data free hatchet job by Manu Joseph. So it isn’t like he is claiming that his absurd claims are …
poverty
Bastar Needs You
Bastar. An abstract name of some strange place where there is Naxalism. And therefore a place to be avoided, to be dreaded and mostly ignored. Not a land of a …
A hailstorm of worries
Sone-Sangvi, Kej, Beed (Maharashtra): The breeze that began to flow around noon on April 6 had by the evening grown into a heavy storm. Then the hails, the size of …
Multiple loans and a long summer ahead
Sheela Rathod was the first to consume a bottle of weedicide in their home. An hour later, as she was being rushed to a government hospital, her husband Mohan, consumed …
Animal husbandry, cattle slaughter and economic viability in five images
In an attempt to bring reason to the debate on cow slaughter bans, I have tried to present data from Maharashtra where the broadening of an existing ban on the …
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Update on hate crime murder of Yakub in Toyota Service Center, Sewri
An AIMIM worker has updated that MLA Waris Pathan and the MIM workers team took murdered Yakub Abdul Hasan’s family to the offices of Toyota and met the General Manager …
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Inciting contempt for identities as human rights activism
There is an article in a blog dedicated to Dalit rights activism titled “How should a Brahmin-Savarna respond to a Dalit voice?” I took exception to it on Twitter and …
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10 reasons why caste based reservation in India is necessary
Caste reservation in India is a way to mitigate lost opportunities due to the practice of caste discrimination in India. The reservtions are a part of India’s affirmative action initiative …
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What independence Day? The freedom struggle isn’t over!
It is the day for cute messages and wearing your patriotism on the sleeve. It is a day that has increasingly lost meaning for me. We got independence from the …
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