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Review by Vamika Goel

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1/ From today's The Hindu.

Let me put out a short thread on how this piece got written, and why I think it is important in the ongoing debate on Union-State economic relations. This was a topic I started looking at, first for some fun but later with some academic amusement.

Gov cannot ignore the minimum constitutional rights of Online-Apps-associated workers who toil hard to realise the dream of digital India on the ground.

Restore the wages and work conditions of Blinkit workers.
#justiceforblinkitworkers

Poor wages, no social security, and police case for rioting when workers fight back! SHAME!
That's how much Blinkit cares for its workers. #justiceforblinkitworkers

India's last minute app Blinkit runs on the sweat and blood of workers. Extremely low payment per delivery, no social security, and police cases against agitating workers. And you call them partners?
Stop the exploitation! Deepinder Goyal
#justiceforblinkitworkers

Threat looms over the lives of delivery workers as Blinkit reduces the already miniscule per delivery charges, yet again. The workers were framed on false charges, threatened by bouncers & abused by managers, for raising their voice.This must stop! #justiceforblinkitworkers

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Tomorrow on Monday The SC will pronounce its verdict on the #BilkisBano case.

In the Era of 'Alpha Male' sharing struggle of the Iron Lady that began on 28th March 2002.

'I will stand & fight again, against what is wrong and for what is right,' she said after the

The Hindu 6/6
In 2010 scholar Aakar Patel wrote an article saying 'Gujarati women find Narendra Modi very attractive sexually and even more than the man, it is the urban Gujarati woman who has made Modi a heroic figure in that state.'

In short 'The Alpha Male'.
It may sound like a war

Easy-peasy.

An exceptional story, reported with great care by Vaishnavi Rathore

Wonderful to see it win the first prize at the PII-ICRC awards

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From Odisha to Kerala, a bus of climate migrants

There's a deep sense of sadness and loneliness seeing this record shattering graph.

November 17, 2023 was the first day in recorded history when the earth's surface was a whole 2°C hotter than pre-industrial times. Yet, there's barely any chatter about this staggering breach.

Galbraith calling for a new mainstream

“Leading economists' misdiagnosis of inflation in ‘21-22 was the latest episode in a long-running series of failures, from not foreseeing the ‘08 financial crisis to endorsing self-destructive austerity in the ‘10s.”
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The union govt has renamed a fifty year old food ration scheme, made it PMGKAY - Act passed in previous dispensation.
Starving the Act of important support it needs.
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Loneliness has been declared as a pressing global health threat with a mortality effect equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day, according to the World Health Organisation ( #WHO ), bindu shajan reports.

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With Rajendran Narayanan helping me every step of the way, I have written for today's editorial in the The Hindu (16/11/23)

An Irish MP in Irish Parliament, says what needs to be said about the Israeli genocide & crimes against humanity in Gaza

Utterly unacceptable. We are watching ten of thousands of innocents being slaughtered with no escape. Our leaders have completely lost their moral bearings.

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