In a country like India, where 90 per cent of the labour force is engaged in the informal sector, performing outdoor jobs that involve physically demanding tasks in agriculture, construction, brick kilns, and other similar fields, workers face significant risks due to heat stress, given their frequent exposure to extreme heat at work.
Marx’s writings don’t just propose a revolutionary political project; they offer a moral critique of the alienation of individuals living in capitalist societies.
For all the braggadocio about Bangladesh’s development and rising economy, our nation’s growth has been largely jobless in nature -- and joblessness is a major factor amongst our youth groups, with the youth unemployment rate sitting at a staggering 15.7%
Storytelling has long been a tactic in the toolbox of colonized people. For survivors of genocide, it validates their experience against those who deny that the horror ever happened.
Bhashani did not try to position himself beyond the parameters of a single religion. Bhashani's way of identifying only with Islam, it may be argued, limited his scope for incorporating syncretic elements derived from other faiths into his own world view.
Modi and the BJP will continue pushing his brand of authoritarian populism, undermining human rights and freedom of expression in the process.
From the perspective of publishers, journalists and scribblers keen to keep the powerful accountable, the plea must be seen as enormously troubling. It ultimately goes to the brutal exercise of US extraterritorial power against any publisher, irrespective of outlet and irrespective of nationality.
A rogue truck, unloading its gold,
Has dashed against a leaning wall,
And under its debris the mother
Has got a clean burial.
In fact, looking at elections over two decades, we found that it was in municipalities that lost population that the radical right was able to score big gains.
It attests to the condition of the labourers who wait at city's corners to seek a hand that may hire them for the day.
