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From the enigmatic Easter Island in the East to the dying Aral Sea in the West, Asia is a land of contrasts: two great civilizations – India and China – deserts, hugely populated areas and a great number of indigenous people struggling for their survival.
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Nothing sentimental about these train journeys
How West, Central and South Asia are interconnecting
Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
It’s one of those quintessential journeys that make people dream: Istanbul-Tehran-Islamabad by train. Let’s call it ITI.
Soon, in early 2021, ITI will become a reality. But, initially, just as a freight train. The deal was recently ...
Working class unites across India: 250-million-strong strike!
Martha Grevatt
For the second time this year, a class-wide mobilization in an “All-India strike” brought out 250 million workers. With one in four working-age people in India participating, this 24-hour work stoppage can again claim the status of ...
Why Indian farmers find it hard to trust the government's promises
Kabir Agarwal कबीर अग्रवाल
The Centre has had a topsy-turvy relationship with the agriculture sector since 2014, with a few hits, but also a lot of misses.
On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made yet another attempt to diffuse the anger of farmers against the three new ...
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A safety net for farmers:
Why should Indian agriculture be liberalised when in most countries governments subsidise it?
- Christophe Jaffrelot ख्रिस्तोफ जाफ्रेलॉट - Hemal Thakker हेमल ठक्कर
Without some support from the state, the smallest of Indian peasants would be even more vulnerable.
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RCEP set to supercharge the New Silk Roads
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
Ho Chi Minh, in his eternal abode, will be savoring it with a heavenly smirk. Vietnam was the ...
Can you smell what the Chinese are cooking?
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
Less than a week before the game-changing U.S. presidential election, the real heart of the geopolitical ...
Dalit Lives Matter! A cry to rage against the horrifying violence of Saffron Terror in India
- India Civil Watch
In Hathras, cops barricade a raped woman’s home,
hijack her corpse, set ...
Thousands of anti-monarchy protesters defy Thailand’s new emergency decree
- Shibani Mahtani شيباني محطاني
Thai protesters on Thursday gathered in the thousands to defy an emergency decree issued to put an end ...
COVID-19 and employment in India: why the definition of gig workers matters more than you think
- Bhavani Seetharaman ಭವಾನಿ ಸೀತಾರಾಮನ್ भवानी सीतारमण
Understanding how one single definition can spell doom for many in India today.
Before the COVID-19 ...
Mumbai: A year later, Zomato delivery woman held for verbal abuse still in jail
- Nitin Brahme नितीन ब्रह्मे
More than a year after she got into an argument with a traffic officer, Priyanka Mogre is still in Byculla ...
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