Aruna Roy

Hinduism is a secular religion in its philosophical assumptions, as probably all religions are. Those claiming to speak for nationalism are forcing us to choose between manufactured polarities of being secular or being religious.

It is a cruel irony that after the sacrifice they have been asked to undertake, they don’t even get the safety of physical distancing. Workers have lost hard-won rights, despite labour being the biggest contributor to the Indian growth story.

Nikhil Dey and Aruna Roy write: Prime Minister demanded discipline and sacrifice from the people, while offering no measures to alleviate distress of those who have lost their dignity and livelihoods.

At the core of the non-violent protests against the CAA, NRC and NPR is the message of peace and equality and an affirmation of solidarity with values enshrined in the Republic’s founding document.

Outgoing Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s tenure in NAC raised hope that the two can work together.

Government is prioritising savings over MGNREGA and rights of the poor.

Thousands of crores are supposed to have been saved in this massive anti-corruption drive, but not a single criminal case has been filed. It is delusional to celebrate the Aadhaar tidal wave, and criminal to turn a blind eye to hard facts about exclusion.

For the poor, with little cash in the first place, digital promises to ‘swipe’ them out, before their marginalisation is even addressed.

The MGNREGA was inspired by the Maharashtra Employment Guarantee Act, passed in 1977, wherein policymakers found wage employment as the best way to empower people against drought

Ten years on, it is a weapon for the citizen facing arbitrary power. It needs to be protected, taken further.

Modi government has damaged the rights-based legislative framework without spelling out what will replace it.

There is a shrinking of resources for rural development. And an imposition of resource-free symbolic programmes

What has happened in Gujarat from February 2002 is a nightmare, the like of which independent India has not seen. The India of our dreams is...