-TheWire.in BJP has now realised that Hindutva and identity politics by themselves are not enough to win. In post-Mandal India, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s attempt to build electoral alliances tying upper castes and non-dominant OBCs is not new. This is a strategy the party used in the mid-1990s across North India to resist the consolidation of pro-Mandal parties and prevent the formation of large coalitions of “backwards”. Mid-1990s onwards, the BJP distributed...
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Wholesale inflation is at a 30-year high. Why is govt not worried? -Vivek Kaul
-National Herald Hindi films have rarely had songs on inflation. But of the few that have, the 1974 flick Roti, Kapda aur Makaan and the 2010 release Peepli Live stand out. Roti, Kapda aur Makaan had the superhit song …bhaaki kuch bachcha to mehangai maar gayi (…whatever was left, inflation took it away). The Peepli Live song went like this, …sakhi saiyan to khub hi kamaat hain, mehangayi daiyan khaaye jaat hai (O,...
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-न्यूजक्लिक, शनिवार की दोपहर का वक़्त है और 23 वर्षीय राजीव पटेल उत्तर प्रदेश के चित्रकूट जिले से चंडीगढ़ जाने के लिए रेलवे आरक्षण हासिल करने की कोशिश में व्यस्त हैं. बांदा-चित्रकूट के पाठा क्षेत्र के निवासी पटेल पिछले सात वर्षों से चंडीगढ़ और पंजाब और हरियाणा के अन्य शहरों में रसोइए के रूप में काम कर रहे हैं। उनके पास कोई औपचारिक प्रशिक्षण नहीं है फिर भी रोज़गार की तलाश में...
More »Value in the weed: Profit potential of green and leafy bathua -Vibha Varshney
-Down to Earth Bathua is in demand for its nutrition and taste. Improved varieties of the weed can make it popular among farmers Come winters, and vegetable markets in Delhi are flooded with varieties of leafy greens. Among these vegetables is one hitherto unwanted weed, foraged from wheat fields. Commonly known as bathua in Hindi, cheel bhaji in Gujarati, paruppu keerai in Tamil, chandanbethu in Bengali and vastuccira in Malayalam, this weed is...
More »Understanding the NCRB data on suicides with caution
The increase in the total number of suicides committed in India during 2020 in comparison to the previous years has hit the headlines recently. While some media commentators have stated that the economic distress (caused by job loss, income loss, failure of business, and growing hunger, among other things) in 2020 could have led to more suicides being committed, others have said that home isolation and deteriorating mental health (associated...
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