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Azure Power Accused of Land Grab for Solar Power Project in Assam | EXPLAINED

December 4, 2024
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In 2019, the descendants of an erstwhile zamindar family entered into an “agreement of sale” for 91 acres of land to Azure Power Forty Pvt Ltd in Mikir Bamuni Grant village in Assam’s Nagaon district to build a solar power plant. The land deal directly affected the livelihoods of at

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Adani Group Faces Global Scrutiny While SEBI Stands Silent: What’s at Stake?

November 29, 2024
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In a proverbial “when it rains, it pours” moment, the Adani Group is having a rather disastrous close to the year. French oil major TotalEnergies won’t make any more investments in the Adani Group, saying it was not informed of the US bribery charges against Gautam Adani. Kenya has canceled

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Book Review: Neha Dixit’s ‘The Many Lives of Syeda X’ is Uniquely Authentic and Eye-Opening in Portraying Working-Class Women

November 13, 2024
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At a construction site in New Delhi on April 30, 2009. Syeda’s story busts several myths about women in general and Muslim women in particular. It opens our eyes to industrial growth and development, smart cities, labour laws, government policies, and welfare programmes. | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA India

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Economic Development
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India’s Economic Inequality Crisis: How Elite Development Models Failed the Nation

November 9, 2024
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On June 4, 2005, the venerated business house of the Tatas signed an agreement to set up a steel plant in Bastar, Chhattisgarh. Virtually on the same day, a private militia known as Salwa Judum (“Peace March” or “Purification Hunt” in south Chhattisgarh’s Gondi language) emerged in Bastar to protect

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Punjab Paddy Crisis 2024: Worst Procurement Delays in 25 Years Hit Farmers

November 6, 2024
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Gal lag ke seeri de jat rove, Bohlan bichon neer vagya, Le aa tangli, naseeban nu faroliye, Tudi vichon putt Jagya. (A farmer embraces a peasant, and cries, As sorrow flows through the grains. ‘Bring a rake, let’s sift through our fortune, In this heap of chaff, O son Jagya.’)

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Economic Development
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Bibek Debroy (1955-2024): The Scholar Who Shaped India’s Economic Transition

November 5, 2024
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Bibek Debroy—”Bibekda,” “Bibek sir,” and simply “Bibek” to his close friends and colleagues—who passed away on November 1, 2024, was a policy advisor of a different breed. He straddled the complexities of economic policymaking with ease. His breadth of understanding of issues, diverse interests, ability to communicate intricate policy matters

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Why has the Indian Rupee Slumped to a Lifetime Low, Slipping Below the Level of 84 to the Dollar?

October 29, 2024
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In a recent tweet, a staunch supporter of the BJP government wrote about the Indian rupee’s strength versus the Turkish lira pointing to the lira’s staggering 92 per cent drop against the Indian rupee in 11 years. This, he believed, reflected significant economic instability in Turkey: the subtext of course,

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What did the striking Samsung workers want?

October 28, 2024
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Samsung workers’ strike entered its 25th day on October 3, in Kancheepuram. | Photo Credit: B. VELANKANNI RAJ The principal demand of the striking workers of Samsung Electronics India Pvt. Ltd in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, was that their newly formed Samsung India Workers Union (SIWU) should be registered under the

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TAMIL NADU | The Hidden Human Side of Industrialisation

October 28, 2024
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At a Dell Computers factory in Sriperumbudur in Kancheepuram district. Tamil Nadu is home to numerous multinationals and ranks among the top States in the ease of doing business criterion. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Tamil Nadu is currently a “boom State”, being a leading manufacturing hub and a major exporter

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Samsung Workers’ Strike Is a Milestone in Tamil Nadu’s Labour Movement in the Post-Liberalisation Era

October 28, 2024
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When the workers of the Samsung Electronics unit in Sriperumbudur, 40 km from Chennai, went on strike for better wages and improved conditions on September 9, little did they realise that their struggle would evolve into a watershed moment in Tamil Nadu’s labour movement in the post-liberalisation era. When it

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