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Wednesday, July 1, 2026
TopicJean Dreze

Topic: Jean Dreze

Economist Jean Dreze is campaigning for this electrician-turned-activist contesting Bihar poll

Activist Sanjay Sahni from Bihar's Ratnauli village has been working towards ensuring employment to MNREGA workers.

What an ‘urban NREGA’ should look like

Having eaten humble pie on NREGA, time for Narendra Modi to seriously consider Jean Dreze’s terrific proposal for urban employment.

Amartya Sen & Jean Drèze are Left heroes but it would be wrong to call them simple statists

Amartya Sen’s emphatic plea for liberating Indian entrepreneurship has not received attention. Neither has Jean Drèze’s concerns over a hostile state.

Economist Jean Dreze detained by Jharkhand police, released later

Dreze and the two activists of Right to Food campaign were detained for allegedly organising a meeting without permission.

On Camera

India’s RPwD Act is continuing to evolve beyond 2016. Courts, citizens are still rewriting it

Too often, rights are realised only by those with the resources, support systems, or institutional access to claim them. But the promise of the RPwD Act was never contingent on model citizenship.

New export policy in the works, Telangana govt eyes global markets for its rice surplus

With the state's annual rice production exceeding 300 LMT for FY2026, exports to countries in Indian subcontinent and South-East Asia are being actively evaluated, it is learnt.

General Dhiraj Seth, the ‘tankman’, takes over as Army chief. A modernisation challenge awaits

Gen Seth is regarded as an officer who is very focused on modernisation & analysing latest trends in military warfare globally and in the immediate region.

Publisher ban on Sacco’s brilliant Muzaffarnagar riot comic is a cynical joke on India’s freedoms

Sacco’s ‘reporting’ is incredibly granular but there are areas where he can be faulted. Don’t let this undermine where his true focus is, in showing how local disputes led to riots.