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Wednesday, August 6, 2025
TopicDomestic Workers

Topic: Domestic Workers

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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Opinion

The court is not Rahul Gandhi’s uncle. Its job is to protect rights, not preach

Raju Ramachandran -
Which humanitarian crisis should be prioritised, which words are ‘simple’ enough to avoid hurt feelings, or who is a ‘true Indian’, are not questions warranting court input.

What’s behind N Chandrasekaran’s 5-year extension as Tata Sons chairman

Where is Skill India money going? It’s a Rs 48,000 crore mystery

Economy

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

Shanker Arnimesh -
New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

Defence

Trump feared India could arm BrahMos with nuclear warhead to target Pakistan in Op Sindoor—WSJ report

Javaria Rana -
New Delhi: During Operation Sindoor, the United States which had received intelligence suggesting that India had launched BrahMos cruise missiles to strike targets inside...

National Interest

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

Shekhar Gupta -
To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.

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