#BJP ’s 2019 manifesto promised to reduce agri-imports, set predictable export policy. But farm imports grew from $ 12.5 billion in 2019 to $ 37 billion in 2023. Informed Voter Project finds poor delivery of promises to #farmers . Kavitha Iyer reports

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'Gustad Irani has the gentlest, most smiling face I’ve ever seen in any Irani restaurant in #Mumbai , legendary safe spaces for grumpy men & lengthy lists of prohibitions'
Priya Ramani on the last generation of restaurateurs keeping a fading world alive
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Very little matters at a reunion after a quarter century—except friendship and food, writes Samar Halarnkar in his column this week

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Prabir Purkayastha set about covering people’s movements, as well as farmers, workers, Dalits, women, and other “excluded” sections of society. This focus perhaps explains the Modi government’s attempts to silence the feisty news portal.

Laxmi Murthy:
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A hotter-than-usual May 2024 predicted for the entire Indo-Pacific

Based on forecasts from global agencies via World Meteorological Organization

In the Ganga heartland, the sanctity of the river is no more an election issue. People don’t see any improvement in Ganga with its damming continuing. Most places Ganga is not even fit for bathing. In 2014, PM assures people can drink Ganga water directly. Has not happened.

Ramadas Prini Sivanadan, a Dalit PhD scholar at TISS Mumbai, has been suspended for two years by the administration for participating in protests and for promoting the screening of ‘BBC documentary’ and ‘Ram ke Naam’.

A new India that is afraid of the voices of our students.

India’s Demographic Dividend is in no hurry at all.
Wait for another 5 years.
Keep calm.

How is participation in a protest march against NEP-2020 'anti-national' activity? And this is TISS. Against a meritorious Dalit scholar. Utterly shameful.

“A way to sieve performance from promises, a response to the information black hole.”

Ashoka India fellow Vivek Gilani on Informed Voter Project’s analysis of BJP’s 2019 poll promises to #farmers . By Kavitha Iyer

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When your have zero to show for you 5 years and your boss’s 10 years?

Find a Muslim.

This video systematically demolishes the claims of job creation by this regime.
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People who were shouting Arambai Tenggol na yaiphare (long live) when they took over Kangla fort in January and pledged to remove “illegal” Kukis from Manipur are shocked that they have captured their booths and cast their votes.

These vile Islamophobic slogans calling for mosque demolition & a Hindu state show clearly once again that the #RSS is on the ground in Leicester, even if UK #Hindutva leadership deny it. This isn't religious celebration - as in Modi's India, it's Hindu supremacist fascist hate!

Looking back at Indians who in Nov 2020 bizarrely flexed when US took till Friday to call an election held on Tuesday during the pandemic with lots of mailin ballots with 'US should have a Central Election Commission like India for fast results 😎💪🏼'.

Say that again now?

84% shortfall in investment
6% of eligible farmers get pension
Not implemented: warehouses on natl highways, village storage scheme
6 lakh organic farmers on website, only 1 vendor selling tomato/potato
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You've seen videos of the of the recent extreme rainfall in Dubai. This animated map add further context. Source: buff.ly/4aZ1Jxj

'A special panel set up by the Biden administration had recommended that multiple Israeli military and police units be denied US funding because of serious human rights abuses. But the State Department has yet to act on the recommendations.' #complicity trib.al/PFHnEaq

This is happening TODAY, and that CEC Rajiv Kumar is busy in shero-shayri, and hiding behind his Z-category security, having dumped his constitutional duties in a gutter.

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As recently as 24 hrs ago the consensus was not so fair but ~free. And now with armed militias running around Manipur?