Would Karl Marx be right after all?
The early years of the twenty-first century have not been good for global capitalism. An international credit crisis and a widespread recession since 2008, with all their attendant anxieties and miseries, have unsurprisingly shaken public support for free-market processes – especially within many of capitalism’s traditional strongholds. In addition, with the recent Covid-19 pandemic-induced supply…
Hyderabad Integration Day: Whose legacy is it?
A most powerful Marxist quote and very relevant for many struggles says “social conditions determine social consciousness”. It tells us that if you put a population under conditions of extreme inequality and injustice for sufficient time, then they will eventually rise up. Social consciousness may also stimulate working towards a common goal. ‘Azadi Ka Amrit…
Why Trump became unbearable.
From dividing people to convincing them that they are cheating, Trump is now undermining the electoral system itself Nicholas Goldberg wrote an interesting observation in the Los Angeles Times on Nov 4. “But this much is clear: On one level, Donald Trump has already won. He’s won because he has sown exactly the kind of…
Hyderabad: ‘More days of heavy rainfall, very high temperature ahead’
With a record of around 29.8 cm of rainfall been recorded at Hayathnagar and more than 21 cm in about 35 places in the city, Hyderabad witnessed the highest rainfall ever in 24 hours on October 14. These torrential rains left 33 dead in the city (across Telangana the figure was over 70), caused huge…
Crossover for corporates
The three farm Bills green signal corporate agriculture and parting of ways with the nationally-accepted ‘Small Farmer Economy’ Amid strong protests by opposition parties, Parliament passed three agriculture sector Bills recently without meaningful discussion and voting. The opposition parties have called them “anti-farmers”. The genuine issues and fears flagged by them include gradual end of…
Profitable Plates
Producing what buyers want with focus on nutrition and enabling policy prescriptions can make farming a permanently rewarding profession Telangana has launched a comprehensive agriculture policy by introducing new cropping patterns, under which farmers will have to cultivate crops in demand as recommended by the government. The State already provides free electricity, investment support, free…
Follow South Korean Covid plan
The Asian nation’s virus strategy of ‘trace, test and treat’ is helping Germany get ahead of the situation In the race against the coronavirus, Germany is betting on widespread testing and quarantining to break the infection chain, a strategy borrowed from South Korea whose success in slowing the outbreak has become the envy of the…
Changing dynamics of monsoon
More lead time for forecasts is crucial for planning and strengthening capacity to respond effectively to disasters With global warming, monsoon is changing, breaking well-established ‘rules’, and becoming more and more erratic and unpredictable. So the criteria of monsoon onset need to be refined accordingly. Climatological norms, which are a 30-year average of a weather…
Rise, Fall and Rise of the Right
Eight decades after World War II and 30 years after the fall of Berlin Wall, the world is seeing a retreat of liberalism and an upsurge in right-wing nationalism Ralph, 8 years old, will never forget that cold December day in 1938 when he and his sister, 17 years, boarded a train in Hamburg, Germany,…
Go for holistic learning
Get perspectives right and develop well-rounded citizens by facilitating linkages between science, social sciences and humanities The concept of holistic academic education was an idea of Wilhelm von Humboldt, a Prussian philosopher, government functionary and diplomat of Germany. The Humboldtian model of higher education is a concept of academic education that emerged in the early…
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