-Livemint.com Politicians prefer a short-term response over a more nuanced, structural solution to the problem of rural distress Confirming everyone’s worst fears, last week the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast a deficient monsoon this year. The next day, some of the newspapers wrongly reported it as a drought (guess breathless reporting is no longer a preserve of the electronic Media), adding to the disappointment of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) refusal...
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Only 1 in 4 MPs in India is below the age of 45 -Kounteya Sinha
-The Times of India LONDON: The world is getting younger but the world's parliamentarians, elected to govern are getting older. The Median age of the global population is around 26.4 years and among the voting age population worldwide, 49% are between the ages of 20 and 39, But the average age of those sitting in the world's parliaments is now between 51-60 years. A 20-year-old Scottish student made history in May 7 general elections...
More »Narendra Modi government's first year sees record farmer suicides -Yogesh Pawar
-DNA From May 20, 2014 to May 24, 2015 has seen as many as 1,306 farmers suicides, a 40% jump from last year. In the middle of the Media blitzkrieg over the completion of a year in office of the Narendra Modi government comes the information that it is anything but 'achche din' in the farmer suicide country of Vidarbha. From May 20, 2014 to May 24, 2015 has seen as many...
More »Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey, Right to Information activists interviewed by Bincy Mathew
-The Hindu Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey speak about the MKSS experience and their campaign for citizen-centric accountability. The Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan was founded in Bhim on May 1, 1990 with the aim of organising people at the grassroots. By addressing issues of minimum wage and land and reading out official records, thereby exposing the enormous corruption in the system, it mobilised peasants and workers in rural Rajasthan. A dharna held...
More »Is World Cup killing Indian workers? -Rukmini S
-The Hindu Death rate in India for working men is far higher The international Media has been awash with reports of hundreds of workers, most of them from Nepal, Bangladesh and India, dying during the construction of stadiums and other facilities for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. However a look at migration data suggests that the number of deaths does not necessarily suggest the kind of crisis that is being described. Since Qatar won...
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