Views That Matter

Mobilisation in the name of cow protection has been one of the most vicious and communally-charged campaign that Hindutva forces have run during the current NDA government’s rule.
The NDA government came to power on a number of promises. Assuring affordable, accessible and effective healthcare was one of them – Swasthya Bharat Samridhha Bharat.
Modi led BJP Government has only followed a policy of pauperising and dispossessing the peasantry by deliberately pushing them into distress by withdrawing State support, aggressively pursuing trade liberalisation and the gamut of Neo-Liberal Economic Policies.
BJP’s Election Manifesto of 2014 had emphatically declared that “BJP commits highest priority to agricultural growth, increase in farmer's income and rural development”. Specifically, BJP had promised 50% profits over cost of production, scientific land use policy and no acquisition without farmers...
Over the last 5 years there have been concerted attempts at providing a “friendly” climate for private capital to make large profits and for the rich to accumulate more wealth through that.
5 years ago, the Modi Government came to power on the promise of delivering “Achhe Din” to the people of India. The promise, however, was simultaneously made to two sets of people.
The task for the technical community – as we have discussed earlier in these columns – is to make sense of the new world that digital technologies are creating: from the new media to artificial intelligence. From production to consumption, the world is changing. How do we rework our social goals of...
The Modi govt.’s disastrous economic policies have pushed India into a furnace of joblessness. Latest CMIE data shows that the unemployment rate in India was 8.6% in the first week of February 2019. This is the highest level since September 2016, that is, in 127 weeks.
The Indian economy in the 70s and 80s were marked with moderate growth rates of 3 to 4% and registered up to 2% growth in employment .
Large sections of workers and employees voted for the BJP in the 2014 elections to the Parliament. They believed his promises of ‘achhe din’, development, employment generation, eradication of corruption etc.