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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicIndia's poor

Topic: India's poor

Average person sees Ambani’s Antilia with hope. There’s aspiration in vulgarity in India

In 'Why the Poor Don't Kill Us', Manu Joseph shows how hypocritical and exploitative people of privilege are, and how they get away with it.

Govt has been counting India’s poor all wrong—it’s ad hoc, arbitrary

In 'An Alternative Development Agenda for India', Sanjay Kaul presents a transformative, sustainable developmental agenda for India, focusing on seven vital sectors and the systemic issues that plague them.

Kerala’s poor is UP’s rich — how access to basic services varies in Indian states

West Bengal and Rajasthan have remarkably improved the delivery of basic services to their poorest 20% population between 2005-06 and 2015-16, NFHS data show.

Coronavirus disparity: No work from home for India’s poor

As the coronavirus crisis worsens in the country, the lower income class Indians can either save their jobs or lives.

On Camera

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.