The newly released Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households and Land and Livestock Holdings of Households in Rural India (NSS 77th Round) establishes the fact that the farm households are more and more relying on wage incomes instead of 'net incomes from crop cultivation' for their livelihoods. In Marxian lexicon, proletarisation (a term that we can loosely use for depeasantisation) refers to the process in which the farmers/ tillers are...
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Misleading headlines, cropped visuals: How local reportage on Assam eviction had a ‘slant’ -Samrat X
-Newslaundry.com Print and TV media in Assam gave no space to those being evicted. On September 23, a video clip from Assam went viral. It shows a man clad in lungi and vest carrying a stick chasing behind a fleeing policeman who runs to join a larger group of his colleagues. Immediately the man with the stick is shot at by the police and falls to the ground, after which he is...
More »June-August dry spell, heavy September rain signs of climate change: Odisha experts -Ashis Senapati
-Down to Earth Erratic rainfall, floods, water-logging, cyclones and sea erosion are factors that make Odisha a state highly exposed to climate change, say experts Less rainfall during June, July and August as well as excess rain September were sure shot signs that Odisha had been struck by climate change this year, experts said September 23, 2021. The southwest monsoon was rather weak during the peak cultivation season from June to August this...
More »Explained: Why is it raining so heavily in Kolkata? -Sibu Tripathi
-IndiaToday.in The weather change in the region is being attributed to two major developments taking shape over the Bay of Bengal and in South Bangladesh. Kolkata broke the record for highest rainfall in 14 years as the city recorded over 200 mm of rainfall in the last two days. The previous such record was in 2007 when the city witnessed 174 mm rain. While airports, hospitals and roads are beginning to inundate,...
More »The Sundarbans: India must protect the world’s largest delta from a dystopian future, and now -Mukut Biswas
-Down to Earth We must get out of ‘beyond disaster response’ mode in the Sundarbans and take urgent action to save it The world seems to pay attention to the Sundarbans only when catastrophe hits. In the aftermath of both supercyclones Amphan and Yaas that ravaged the Sundarbans, non-profits, celebrities, clubs and citizens had organised several crowd funding initiatives to get the financial support to distribute relief materials to the cyclone victims. It...
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