The latest Business Inflation Expectations Survey (BIES) of the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has suggested that while business inflation expectations have decreased significantly by 29 basis points, falling to 4.21% in July 2024 from 4.50% in June 2024, and the average inflation expectation among firms over the past 12 months stands at 4.44%, overall, "early indicators ...

A civil society discussion in New Delhi organised in the wake of the screening of a documentary ‘Maharashtra in the Wake of Hate’ has highlighted how the Holocaust in Fascist Germany did not begin in gas chambers but with hate speech”, even as comparing the silence of Indian state authorities with the emerging view in Europe that the Manipur situation is similar to what is happening in ...

Speaking at a press conference hosted at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached the US capital for his high profile official state level visit, the country’s human rights experts and those claiming to be victims of Indian government persecution have called on the Biden administration to …

Whatever reasons may be offered for the Aam Aadmi Party's defeat in Delhi—whether it was the BJP's promises of more freebies than AAP, the shedding of ultra-nationalist slogans, or the successful demolition of Arvind Kejriwal's "Mr. Clean" image—my recent interaction with a group of middle-class individuals highlighted a notable trend.

6 days ago · The minister's reaction showed he wanted to make the now-fashionable issue of religious conversion a matter of concern—not so much for Silvassa and Daman (which do not fall under Gujarat's jurisdiction), but for Gujarat's tribal belt. He said, “Earlier, the entire tribal belt used to follow Shabari Mata and prayed to her, but in the …

Rajiv Shah's News Blog. Strange are the ways of Jio Fibre Service in Ahmedabad. On noticing for two consecutive days that there is a problem between the set top box and TV with HDMI connection getting snapped too frequently (see video below) we decided to ask to take the help of a Jio service engineer last Saturday to visit at our home.

Mar 16, 2025 · This is a follow-up to my earlier blog , where I mentioned that veteran scholar Prof. Ghanshyam Shah has just completed a book for publication on a topic no academic seems to have dealt with—caste and class relations in Gujarat’s social history.

In a sharp admission, several Indian diaspora human rights groups in the US have regretted that there is “a lack of awareness about Hindu supremacy” in the country, leading to “well-meaning centrist and progressive institutions to mis-recognize Hindu supremacists as representative of the wider, far more diverse, and more liberal Indian American community.”

2 days ago · Of these, OP Singhal, who was the first to dissent on the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia, was a powerful figure. He wanted to write a critical editorial or an article for the edit page, but was denied permission by Narayanan, who was then in Moscow.

Apr 17, 2024 · Rating the civic space in India as "repressed", the global civil society alliance CIVICUS has said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second term in power was sustained by a pattern of repression to undermine democracy and civic space.The assessment is based on its analysis of civic freedoms in 198 countries and territories to categorise them as …