India: Economic Growth and Increasing Poverty
People at the bottom of Indian society exist in extreme poverty. The Global Hunger Index published its annual ratings last week. India has fallen for the third year running and…
Most rapid exodus ever
IN WHAT the UN has called the most rapid exodus ever, more than one million have now fled Ukraine and are seeking refuge both in neighbouring countries and further afield. In…
Modi Gives In After Year-long Farmers Strike
Yesterday, Prime Minister Modi surprised the world by giving in to farmers’ demands, after a bitter year-long farmers strike against the Indian government’s proposals to deregulate the farming sector and…
The Last Day.
(Based on an Indian Folktale) Many years ago and far away There lay a man on his very last day. Doctors came and Doctors went All saying that his life…
Indian farmers attacked by Modi government
A farmers’ protest in New Delhi ended in violence yesterday. The protest called by farmers concerned for their livelihoods was attacked by state forces. There is evidence that this attack…