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Saturday, November 15, 2025
TopicDomestic Workers

Topic: Domestic Workers

Cinema wronged domestic workers — Hum Aapke Hain Koun to Kal Ho Naa Ho. The script’s changing

Zoya Bhatti -
Suresh Triveni’s Jalsa, Zoya Akhtar’s Lust Stories and Rohena Gera’s Sir have brought new interpretations of the domestic workers into Indian cinema.

Why the pandemic recession hurts Indian women more

Shruti Rajagopalan -
Tens of thousands of domestic workers, predominantly women, are now struggling to make ends meet. Their children are falling behind due to school closures.

Dilemma of the Indian middle class — dependent on ‘didis’ but can’t welcome them too soon

Unnati Sharma -
Indian middle class fears for their safety during the Covid crisis but that is in conflict with their dependence on domestic workers.

Bring domestic, gig economy workers under labour laws, House panel says in reform road map

Moushumi Das Gupta -
The parliamentary panel on labour has also asked govt to clarify whether employers should continue paying wages if establishments are forced shut by a natural calamity.

Even in an empty Delhi metro coach, middle-class Indians make their maids sit on the floor

Shekhar Gupta -
With rising prosperity, more double-income couples and nuclear families, the need for domestic workers is increasing – and so is the class divide.

Behind the closet

Shekhar Gupta -
Rising prosperity has not changed attitudes, it has merely enabled us to exploit cheap labour as 'domestics'.
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Capitalism is the bedrock of all economic progress. Socialism is a parasite: KD Valicha

KD Valicha -
Today is the anti-socialist era. Libertarianism is fighting; dedicated with all its power and love of liberty. It does not matter whether it wins in the political sphere, wrote KD Valicha in 1957.

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Economy

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Bloomberg News -
Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Defence

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

Snehesh Alex Philip -
ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

National Interest

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Shekhar Gupta -
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.

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