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The moral case for social protection

Livemint 2015By harsh_userDecember 27, 2015Leave a comment

There can be no better encapsulation of the idea of the good state, one which must be founded on the idea of social solidarity, on the continuous mindfulness of its obligation to care for every person, weak and strong. Chomsky goes on to say that we live in times when this is considered a profoundly subversive idea.

Replacing food with cash

Livemint 2015By harsh_userDecember 26, 2015Leave a comment

One ‘reform’ in India’s social welfare architecture to which the current government is deeply committed is to substitute subsidised wheat and rice supplied through the public distribution system (PDS) with direct cash transfers into bank accounts of targeted households.

Excerpt: Looking Away by Harsh Mander

Livemint 2015By harsh_userDecember 15, 2015Leave a comment

Jay Mazoomdar recounts a telling conversation he had with three young men in Varanasi after the elections. ‘“More than Muslims here, now Pakistan and China will be scared,” one of them said disarmingly.