On Wednesday, India witnessed a sweeping nationwide strike as lakhs of workers, farmers, and trade union members took to the streets, protesting the central government’s economic and labour policies—policies they denounced as anti-worker and pro-corporate. Exempting essential services such as hospitals, pharmacies, airports, and metro rail, over 25 crore workers across India participated in the…
Jagmohan Thaken In India, 69 percent population lives in villages, where most of the populace is associated with agriculture and allied activities, but snatching the agricultural land by the governments in the name of urban and industrial development leaves these Ruralites in the lurch with a stigma of landless, unsettled, and unemployed. However, the Governments…
Sambhar, Rajasthan — known globally for its vast saline lake and a magnet for migratory birds from Siberia and northern Asia — has made headlines this summer not for its ecological beauty, but for a desperate cry for help. In an unprecedented move, residents of this Ramsar-recognized wetland area have begun pasting “House for Sale”…
