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The Nowhere Men & Women: How India Abandoned 14 Crore Citizens on a Policy Paper

The government of India runs the world’s biggest food security scheme, which provides free ration to more than 80 crore people. The scheme has won Prime Minister Narendra Modi accolades. But what if we realise that there are over 14 crore people who have been omitted from the benefit of this scheme because the government has not counted Indian citizens in over a decade? Can its intransigence break the welfare structure of governance?

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#foodsecurity #nfsa #census #welfareschemes #data #exclusion #RuralIndia #poverty #inequality #narendramodi #BJP #india

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Dalits' Struggle To Enter Temples Exposes Deep-Rooted Caste Conflicts In Tamil Nadu

The caste strife in Tamil Nadu’s Alampallam village echoes a larger clash over temple entry, exposing the shortcomings of the Dravidian parties in addressing the deeply-entrenched caste conflicts.

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How Tamil cinema romanticises agriculture by ignoring issues of caste and gender

With the ‘save farmers’ trope coming back to mainstream discussion after the jallikattu protests in 2017, movies once again began connecting Tamil identity to agriculture. Any threat to agriculture was seen as a threat to Tamil identity itself. Akchayaa Rajkumar writes.

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The caste of a chair

How upper castes in Tamil Nadu’s panchayats use chairs and the protocols surrounding them to discriminate against Dalit women presidents. Johanna Deeksha writes.

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Amidst A Govt-Enforced Data Vacuum, Stagnating Wages & Rising Costs Increase Economic Distress In Rural India

For nearly a decade, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi—who said farm incomes would double by 2022—has withheld or criticised available data on poverty. Data that his government rejected, but Maharashtra released, indicate the share of food in monthly expenses in rural households in the state rose between 2011-12 and 2017-18, an indicator of growing economic vulnerability, even as inflation-adjusted wages in rural India contracted over 16 consecutive months to March 2023. From the interiors of India’s richest state, we report how daily wages are stagnant, as inflation and rising costs push more Indians into poverty.

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Rise in rural distress

One discovers that while regular wage work and casual wage work shares are falling, correspondingly, self-employment is increasing

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