Jyoti Verma

Providing a comprehensive and critical overview of the state of contemporary rural India, focusing on the key rural policies and trends that have drivenrural India’s economic and ecological transitions, the Network of Rural and Agrarian…
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"We need a shift from an economy of limitless greed scientifically put into GDP and growth. We are living through about 30 years of a real build-up of a health emergency, where people are fed with toxic food, nutritionally empty food just…
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At a time when innovative bus shelter designs, including solar-powered and intelligent bus shelters, are in vogue, people in Kerala are in wonderment at the sight of a bus shelter for passengers made of used bicycle parts. The bus shelter…
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The gig economy is characterised by two aspects – use and throw labour force and invisible employer. These two aspects are working against everything that workers have fought for centuries, which are the basic rights of workers, fair wages…
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Labour rights that we know today had been fought and achieved through the sweat and blood of workers over the centuries. With their struggle the situation changed from having a slave – master relationship to being an industrial worker and…
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The Modi government, which recently came out with three controversial farm laws, as part of its efforts to double farmers’ income, is likely to miss the national Women Farmers’ Day on 15th October this year too. The BJP-led government had…
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"Most of the people in my tribe are now beggars. Before the lockdown, we stepped out on the streets on a daily basis, and managed to earn at least something.” These are the words of Saheb Nath Madari, who belongs to the Madari community in…
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As the global community is fighting the grave threat of the pandemic COVID-19, India and South Africa have made a joint proposal to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to waive certain provisions of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of…
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In the current scenario of the COVID-19 pandemic, sex workers and bar dancers have been without work for months.  Most of the sex workers and bar dancers belong to the Denotified and Nomadic Tribes (DNT) of India. The DNT communities have…
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The recent legislations on the agriculture sector, which were brought in the name of farmers, will adversely and disproportionately impact a majority of women farmers, who form the bulk of the small and marginal sections in the Indian…
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