The centrality of fraternity in nurturing and sustaining democracy is one of Babasaheb Ambedkar’s many profound insights. The word used in the Constitution in Hindi is bandhuta, which vividly evokes ideas of comradeship and mutual belonging.
Amidst the clamour of India’s colourful 2014 general election, a public debate of great import for India’s future is underway. Leading political candidates debate which development model is best suited for a country of vast economic potential and embedded historical impoverishment.
India has been conspicuously less successful than many other emerging economies in the scale, speed and depth of its reversal of poverty. But many scholars say that whatever one’s measures of poverty, young people on an average have better educational…
There are many who interpret the emphatic rejection of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and the significant endorsement of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the elections of 2014 as a mandate to end the architecture of rights-based legislation for social…
High among the expectations from the avowedly industry-friendly government in Delhi is that it will muster the political will to “reform” labour laws to render these more flexible. The rigidities of the current labour regulatory regime, it is alleged, are major hurdles
Indian industry continues to chaff at the government’s failure to introduce what it calls labour reforms. I find the term “reform” here disingenuous, because what is sought is not a better deal for labour
The majority of children in the world who are trapped in labour instead of going to school are born and raised in India. The surprise but welcome Nobel for an indefatigable Indian warrior against child labour…
This relates to the National Interest article,‘ The bleeding heartless’, by Shekhar Gupta (IE, June 1). In the article, it is mentioned that Padma, the wife of leading Maoist Ramakrishna, managed an orphanage run by the NGO Aman Vedika, with which I am associated. The facts of the matter are as follows.