This movement began as a protest against controversial farm acts by farmers, but has expanded into a broader challenge and alliance against the government by 90% of India's population. It represents common people challenging the privileged elite and seeking to replace the existing political system that perpetuates inequalities. The movement signals dissatisfaction with a system skewed in favor of upper castes and brings together various disadvantaged groups including farmers, laborers, and the unemployed from across different states. It seeks equitable policies for both buyers and sellers in the agricultural sector and other reforms benefiting farmers and rural communities.
Present situation of farmers in India and solutionspuneetthind
How a farmer organization can help farmers to uplift their standard of living by making them enable of taking new initiatives, which they otherwise can't....here is a perfect example of RKS and PFC in India as a case study
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How a farmer organization can help farmers to uplift their standard of living by making them enable of taking new initiatives, which they otherwise can't....here is a perfect example of RKS and PFC in India as a case study
Public finance can have a critical role in mobilizing more and better private investment in a sector that will be critical for the success of the new sustainable development agenda.
Beef and beyond- an empirical romanticization of current Indian politico econ...Amal K
Ban on sale of bovine animals for slaughter has been banned in India on 27th May 2017. Is it a politically motivated step by the current right wing Government as being argued by many in the political front or is it part of a larger agenda with deeper implications?? Is it an isolated move or is there a clear pattern in what we are witnessing in the political as well as economic spheres of the country over these years?? Have finance capital and certain powers controlling power centers across the globe imposing their decisions over us and we fail to see what is the real intention behind many happenings and policy decisions??
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Democratic watchdog organization Freedom House has released its annual ranking of the world's most free and most suppressed nations.
The report is a key barometer for global democracy and this year's edition found that global freedom has declined for the 15th straight year. 2020 was a turbulent year with the pandemic, violent conflict and economic and physical insecurity leading to democracy's defenders sustaining heavy losses against authoritarian foes which has resulted in a shift in the internatioal baance in favor of tyranny.
A total of 195 countries and 15 territories were analyzed on their levels of access to political rights and civil liberties with the number experiencing a deterioration in their freedom scores exceeding the number that saw improvement by the widest margin since 2006. In 2020, nearly 75 percent of the world's population lived under a government that saw its democracy score decline in the past year.
Public finance can have a critical role in mobilizing more and better private investment in a sector that will be critical for the success of the new sustainable development agenda.
Beef and beyond- an empirical romanticization of current Indian politico econ...Amal K
Ban on sale of bovine animals for slaughter has been banned in India on 27th May 2017. Is it a politically motivated step by the current right wing Government as being argued by many in the political front or is it part of a larger agenda with deeper implications?? Is it an isolated move or is there a clear pattern in what we are witnessing in the political as well as economic spheres of the country over these years?? Have finance capital and certain powers controlling power centers across the globe imposing their decisions over us and we fail to see what is the real intention behind many happenings and policy decisions??
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Democratic watchdog organization Freedom House has released its annual ranking of the world's most free and most suppressed nations.
The report is a key barometer for global democracy and this year's edition found that global freedom has declined for the 15th straight year. 2020 was a turbulent year with the pandemic, violent conflict and economic and physical insecurity leading to democracy's defenders sustaining heavy losses against authoritarian foes which has resulted in a shift in the internatioal baance in favor of tyranny.
A total of 195 countries and 15 territories were analyzed on their levels of access to political rights and civil liberties with the number experiencing a deterioration in their freedom scores exceeding the number that saw improvement by the widest margin since 2006. In 2020, nearly 75 percent of the world's population lived under a government that saw its democracy score decline in the past year.
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Looking at the recent political development in Nigeria, the transition from Civilian to Civilian administration, the process that led to the transition was fundamentally initiated, designed, guided and imposed on the people by the democratic dictators, however Democracy is far more penetrating process than the ritual of election and more also that the transfer of democratic leadership with a super imposed party constitution without the opening of political parties and with restricted political space, hold a manipulated periodic election, not minding the participation of vote of the people because of repressive nature of our authoritarian leadership. The fact that beclouded the Democratic elite hostility has been blown open by the inability of the Democratic propaganda to ratify the bankruptcy of the capitalist pattern of democracy, this Democracy which consist in the failure of participation and also concern of the mediocrity of leader. The abstract shall demonstrate the inherent danger in Exclusive Democracy in Nigeria.
Key Word: Participatory Democracy a Dead End in Nigeria.
To defend democracy to prevent the advancement of fascism in brazilFernando Alcoforado
The advance of fascism in Brazil results from the fact that its economic, social and political organization finds itself in complete disintegration. The inability of the Brazilian government and political institutions in general to offer effective responses to overcoming the recessive economic crisis in which the Brazilian nation has been suffering since 2014 and overcoming unbridled corruption in all the powers of the Republic has contributed to the advancement of fascism as a solution to the problems of Brazil. In the escalation of fascism in Brazil, an alliance was made between the conservative elite and the fascists which was consummated with the support of the conservative elite to the candidate Jair Bolsonaro to the Presidency of the Republic that has a proposal of typically fascist government because his discourse is based on the cult explicit of order, state violence, authoritarian government practices, social disregard for vulnerable and fragile groups, and anti-communism.
Death By Aadhaar: In Jharkhand alone, four people have died from starvation because they could not access rations or pension under Aadhaar guidelines. This, despite the matter still
pending before the Supreme Court. An investigation.
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Briefly discusses the role of small parties that do not participate in elections in India but are errand boys of the larger ones in criminality like cash and drugs distribution during elections in India.
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Telecom Revolution, Governnace and Elections in IndiaShantanu Basu
Briefly discusses the telecom and media revolutions in India. The article concludes that a large part of voting in India's next General Election in 2019 would be decided from homes and that such choices would make voters much more conscious of seeking accountability of their elected representatives.
Briefly discusses the proposal to laterally induct officers from outside government of India as Joint Secretary. The article analyses the debate and concludes that such lateral recruitments ignore the reality of a crying need for reform of India's colonial civil service
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An astonishing, first-of-its-kind, report by the NYT assessing damage in Ukraine. Even if the war ends tomorrow, in many places there will be nothing to go back to.
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El Puerto de Algeciras continúa un año más como el más eficiente del continente europeo y vuelve a situarse en el “top ten” mundial, según el informe The Container Port Performance Index 2023 (CPPI), elaborado por el Banco Mundial y la consultora S&P Global.
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1. 1
SUBALTERNS' SATYAGRAHA TO NEW INDIA
Shantanu Basu
The ongoing farmers' agitation on Delhi's borders is no more about the controversial Farm
Acts. It is fast transmuting into a challenge from 90% of India's population to the privileged
10% that have historically written India's post-1947 history. It is no longer an issue of state
arbitrariness but an emerging broad-based alliance ranged against a government whose
policies are dictated by private corporate interests, something that has not happened in the
past.
If the media has been typecast as active saviours of the status quo (e.g. by stifling reportage
of massive farmer protests across India and BJP-ruled states for stoppage of farmers at the
borders en route to Delhi), law enforcement agencies are not just supine but represent, along
with voluble members of the ruling party are viewed as Devils Incarnate that seek to stifle
legitimate protest by brute force.
It does not remain a Punjab v. Centre issue any longer; it is rapidly escalating as dominant
and well-off lower castes spread across the Hindi heartland supplement and democratise this
movement. The realization that caste and community-based parties are no more than active
collaborators with the upper caste parties and together are responsible for the impoverishment
of the masses has finally dawned on India's subaltern classes. An open challenge has
therefore been thrown by common people to the privileged elites by a movement that is
seemingly united on primarily economic basis, politics bereft of caste, communal and blindly
copied/faux ideological leanings.
This movement is no longer confined to Delhi; Tikait just moved it out to Haryana; Punjab is
already there and other states are following in rapid succession. This amplifies the challenge
in the Hindi-speaking heartland that determines the winner of Raisina Hill. Nor is it confined
only to farmers since 15-20% of India's urban population too have strong agrarian connects.
Like police and defence services, these people also serve in both public and private sectors
and are adversely affected by the new Labour Code, CPSE & Railway privatization, etc. and
therefore, have adequate incentive to join this movement in an organized manner.
The movement signals the demise of a political system skewed in favour of the upper castes
that are viewed as leeches and parasites while the hard working Indian farmer remains
indigent, owns an average 2-3 hectares of land against whose security few FIs will lend funds
to them, vice-like grip of moneylenders, most of which are upper caste ruling party
politicians and corrupt civil servants, massive corruption in agri-input subsidies, etc.
The movement protests a pernicious social system that relies entirely on money-buying
patronage and resultant exclusivity by deprivation of the vast majority of the working class.
It is an eclectic mix of several -isms but very focused on the need to replace the existing
political system that perpetuates odious caste and communal differences and seeks to 'buy off'
the masses with peanuts like power subsidy while leaving two-third of the nation severely
deprived . In effect, the legitimate bargaining power of the working classes is mortgaged to a
privileged upper caste elite that periodically circulates in power (remember Pareto & Mosca's
rotation of elites theory in the 1930s) by erecting and sustaining artificial barriers like caste
and community. Economic deprivation, past and future, is the result of this mortgage. Hence,
the need for change, farmers feel.
2. 2
While the ruling regime has confined itself to hurling innuendo, party saboteurs, anti-national
labels, vacuous invective on clearly collaborative media channels, and an obduracy to repeal
the three Acts, the farmers have remained steadfast in their basic demand. The end result is an
unprecedented mass mobilization against a historically aggrandizing and brutal elite that is
reminiscent of Gandhi's satyagraha and the electrifying effect of the Dandi March (not yet a
century before).
What is even more interesting is that this movement does not question the legality or sheer
unconstitutionality of the Acts; all it seeks, by implication, is state stewardship of an legal
and rules regime that is equitable to both buyers and sellers, interim financial assistance and
state legal protection and enforcement from avaricious corporate entities, security of farm
land holdings from alienation, supplementary non-farm income, remunerative prices for
produce, cheaper credit and microfinance, better education and health facilities for the agri
sector and sundry related issues.
Regrettably, the ruling regime's tearing rush to obtain final legislative approval at the height
of the pandemic and the parallel investments made by India's two largest crony
conglomerates that have jointly created the impression that the regime has no say and that
they are being dictated from behind the screen by these conglomerates in exchange for past
favours. Farmers legitimately apprehend that such government therefore has forfeited its
moral and electoral right to play honest broker. Hence, the need to look to replacing the 10%
privileged with a government that is far more representative of 1.40 billion Indians.
The panic reaction of the regime is amply manifest in installing spikes, RCC barriers,
concrete obstructions, police forces armed with steel pipes (instead of cane batons) and
phalanxes of police and para-military forces in full view of the world. In doing so, the ruling
regime betrays its utter lack of understanding that these forces, as also the defence services,
have strong agrarian roots too, that could drive revolt in the ranks and file.
Another interesting facet of this movement is the laudable use of the Internet and media by
the agitating farmers. If the ruling regime used the Internet and media to spread a past it's
shelf-life communal and militant venom, farmers used the same channels to stay abreast of
the huge concessions that India's two largest conglomerates have obtained and the meteoric
rise in their assets in less than seven years; also reportage of multi-thousand crore ill-gotten
money in 'buying' elected representatives.
The duplicity of a system where cash was no consideration for sustaining and expanding an
increasingly authoritarian puppet regime while the indigent saw their fortunes dip further
south was not missed by farmers. The virtual economic partition of the country between these
two conglomerates in the same period is not lost either on them. Media reports of 90%+
utilization of electoral bonds by the ruling regime clearly prove the regime's brazen
complicity with business conglomerates, facts not lost out on agitating farmers. They are
fearful yet angry, stubborn for a cause, yet still willing to listen to reason, oblivious of
calumny hurled at them.
Farmers repose very little real residual faith in the Executive, Legislature or the Judiciary and
for entirely wholesome reasons, yet have chosen the path of peaceful protest, probably the
world's largest in recent memory. That is a perilous cocktail that could explode if this
movement is not guided by a dedicated and non-opportunist leaders that have mass following.
In that lies a humongous warning for the ruling regime too. History and Indians will never
forget nor forgive the current regime for plunging India into anarchy by its mindlessness and
the false security of its police forces.
3. 3
Having obtained concessions in critical but profitable sectors, these twin conglomerates have
now turned their avarice on agriculture. The haste in which the Acts cleared the Upper House
at the height of the pandemic, that too by dubious voice vote, added to farmers' suspicions.
What further alarmed farmers too were provisions relating to the end of APMCs, contract
farming, removal of wheat, paddy, etc. from the list of essential commodities, that gave rise
to an impression that the aforementioned twin business conglomerates had actually drafted
these legislations and a supine regime simply got them passed; hence the last mile subterfuge.
All these events in quick succession confirmed the worst fears of the farmers and brought
them to Delhi's borders in protest.
In effect, farmers, labour unions, the unemployed and underemployed, and many other
groups disadvantaged by the regime's furtive reform attempts may coagulate in due course
across India. It is a telling comment on the ruling regime's competence and complete absence
of intellectual capital that they arrogantly ignored time and context that were central to a
successful reform programme. Sudden death of crony-run dubiously reformist regimes has
wrought disaster and fatality upon their leaders in the not too distant past across the world.
In the next two years or so (in time for the 2022 UP and 2024 LS elections), this movement
may well lay the foundation of a more egalitarian and accountable political system. That may
well see a period of anarchism and extremism since this is a loosely controlled movement
without any formal organization before it gets its act together in the coming few months. If
Muzaffarnagar was a huge blunder by Jats against Muslims, so are Singhu, Tikri and
Ghaziabad borders for the regime, for two wrongs cannot justify right.
Economic relations between castes and communities that took shape over several centuries
are today being broken down by an antediluvian ideology rooted in a mythical past glorified
without a shard of evidence pushing India back several centuries. All these are legitimately
viewed with legitimate apprehension by lower castes and communities, a large proportion of
them small and marginal farmers, for whom survival depends on their historic economic
relations. Likewise, not all middlemen (arthiyas) belong to higher castes and have reason to
feel disaffected.
These Acts upend rural society too by declaring war on an centuries-old ecosystem that
includes the village schoolteacher, grocer, blacksmith, veterinarian, priest and innumerable
more that will lose their livelihood. That is when urbanization covers less than a third of
India's population and that too in crumbling slum cities with few or no civic amenities, let
alone alternative livelihood or social security net.
What Indians, and the world, are looking at is a historic cross-class social (and political)
movement in the making, one that represents the aspirations of 90% Indians. And that
includes people like you and me. The past and the present sometimes must be buried to make
way for a brighter future. (1649 words)
The author is a public policy analyst and commentator