We proudly say that India is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. At the same time, in the Global Hunger Index 2026, we stand at the hundredth position in a list of 122 countries. In this report, released…
Today, many years later, the work and thought of Dr. Gail Omvedt still feel just as relevant. Caste reality has still not ended, injustice against women has still not ended, and the problems of farmers and agricultural laborers remain unresolved — in such circumstances, the ideological foundation Dr. Gail laid out, and the path of action she demonstrated, continue to guide scholars and activists of the new generation.
The core of Toni Morrison's writing revolved consistently around the world of experience of the Black community, and particularly of Black women. Speaking of her literary role, she would say with great pride that her entire body of work was centred on the oppressed, labouring, and suffering Black people.
Through the dedication of hardworking farmers like Mangalsingh and Shantidevi, this journey of organic farming will surely show many more farmers the path to self-reliance in the times ahead.
The name Cockroach Janta Party is itself an ironic commentary. When those in power belittle protesting youth, dismiss citizens who ask questions, and compare them to lowly insects, then picking up that very insult and naming one's own movement after it — turning it into mockery of the arrogance of power — is a mark of this generation's distinctive style.
This summer's punishing heat bore down hard on rural life in the Bajna block of Ratlam district, Madhya Pradesh, and no one felt it more sharply than families in villages where the handpumps had sat broken for months. As temperatures climbed, so did the thirst of the land, and the desperation of those who depended on it. Eighteen villages were in especially dire straits, with thirty-four handpumps out of order, forcing women to walk long distances just to fetch a pot of water.
The message of the Dal Utsav was unambiguous: the first right over a crop grown in the field must rest with the nourishment of the family, not with the market. This is the very soul of food sovereignty.
Discussion of inequality in India is often trapped in numbers and statistics. But the distinctive quality of Drèze's work is that he brings forward the human being hidden behind those numbers. The face of a grandmother sleeping hungry in a hut, of a tribal youth who goes to ask for work on a farm and returns empty-handed, of a Dalit woman who comes back with nothing because her Aadhaar scan would not work all these faces remain alive in Drèze's research.
As we remember George Fernandes on the occasion of his birth anniversary, this leader forged in struggle, who valued principles above power, and who continued fighting for the common person until his last breath shall remain immortal forever in the history of Indian democracy.
It is now extreme heat itself that is deciding how farming will happen, where it will happen, and how much will happen. This is a crisis that pushes already vulnerable communities even deeper into the pit.