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A farmer returns homewards from his farm in a village in Haryana on March 5, 2021. The ongoing farmer protests at the Ghazipur border outside Delhi entered the 100th day on March 6. Contentious new agricultural reform laws have led tens of thousands of farmers to block key highways leading to the capital. Multiple rounds of talks have failed to produce any breakthrough on the farmers' key demand to revoke the legislation. Photo: AP

Food Security and Markets: Understanding the Protests over India’s Changing Social Contract with Farmers

Sukhpal Singh

For more than 100 days now India’s farmers have protested at the Shinghu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders outside the national capital, New Delhi. Earlier, Punjab’s farmers protested within their State for three months before moving to Delhi borders, against a set of laws that would change the nature of the relationship between the state and the ...

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PDP supporters dancing during an election rally in Chadoora Budgam district central Kashmir on Saturday, April, 13, 2019. Photo: Nissar Ahmad

AFSPA is a great issue for the Kashmiri, not Art. 370; 10-12 States enjoy similar protection: Moosa Raza, former J&K Chief Secretary

Saptarshi Bhattacharya

The conflict in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has seen many elections. The State sends six MPs to the 543-strong Lok Sabha but 'Kashmir' ...

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N. K. Singh, Chairman 15<sup>th</sup> Finance commission, at a press conference in Mumbai on September 19, 2018. File photo: Vivek Bendre

There should be a mechanism by which GST Council and Finance Commission can coordinate: N.K. Singh

Puja Mehra

The Fifteenth Finance Commission is up against unprecedented challenges. First, the Goods and Services Tax has introduced an ...

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Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam Singh Yadav exchanges greetings with Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati during their joint election campaign rally in Mainpuri, on April 19, 2019. Photo: PTI

Western Uttar Pradesh: Caste Arithmetic vs Nationalism

Smita Gupta

In most of the 26 constituencies that went to the polls in the first three phases of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections in western ...

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One of the community forests developed and maintained by the scheduled tribes in Gasaba reserve forest of Araku forest range in Dumbriguda mandal of Visakhapatnam district. The scheduled tribes are seeking community pattas under the Forest Rights Act. File photo: K.R. Deepak

A Mahagatbandhan in the Forests is the Need of the Hour

Nandini Sundar

Analysing the results of the Lok Sabha elections in 2014 in the 133 scheduled tribes dominated constituencies in the country, the ...

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Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) president Farooq Abdullah and vice-president Omar Abdullah at an election rally during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, in Srinagar, Monday, April 15, 2019. Photo: PTI/S. Irfan

Communalism, Statehood, Militancy, and the Multiple Layers of J&K Polls

Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal

Jammu and Kashmir has nearly as many phases of elections as it has Members of Parliament: the six constituencies in the northern ...

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A pond being deepened in Tamil Nadu, under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA). File photo: B. Jothi Ramalingam

"Income support schemes do not correct market failures": Economist

Puja Mehra

There is a proliferation of income support schemes on the Indian public policy landscape. Add to this two more by the principal ...

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