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@lemmygrad.mlhttps://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2023/08/16/puthupally-bypoll-ldf-jaick-c-thomas-files-nomination.amp.html
Deadline for filing nomination for byelection is August 17.Jaick C Thomas. Puthuppally bypoll. Kerala news. LDF. nomination papers
The nutritional status of the Indian population has been going down slowly but surely during the last three decades, the period of neo-liberal economic reforms.
Per capita real expenditure on food1 has been falling as well for decades.
We see that every populous developing region in the world--including those with a similar population age structure and higher levels of mechanisation than India--consumes substantially more than Indians do and has better nutritional outcomes.
The NSS report Key Indicators of Household Consumer Expenditure 2017-18 was available briefly online last year in a publicly accessible domain.
The NFHS 5, 2019-21, compared to the previous NFHS 4 of 2015-16, continued to show decline in infant and child mortality rates though at a lower rate compared to earlier years.
Child nutrition indicators too were worse than expected.
Recently the central government has claimed substantial 'decline in poverty' by floating a new index which has nothing to do with poverty as understood and measured for the last 70 years at the international and national levels.
In India where a substantial share of the population whether rural or urban, is nutritionally deprived and their deprivation is increasing over time, the indicator of body mass index for adults, which is a ratio, has to be treated with scepticism.
Namely the nominal spending per capita on all food items, deflated by a consumer price index to make later years comparable to earlier years. ↩
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/c/long-and-violent-aftermath-colonialism
RON JACOBS is struck by parallels between the Hindu nationalism that assassinated Gandhi and the government of today’s India
https://mobile.twitter.com/KisanSabha/status/1585331354287239168#m
https://cpim.org/documents/july-2022-cc-report-political-developments
Report on Political Developments (Adopted at the Central Committee Meeting held on July 30-31, 2022) International Developments The global capitalist economic crisis is worsening. The bankruptcy of neo-liberalism in its inability to offer any solutions to overcome this crisis and for economic recovery is reconfirmed. On the contrary, despite this weak economic performance the neo-liberal dispensation enforces the continuation of the trajectory of profit maximisation leading to further widening of economic inequalities. World’s billionaires continue to amass greater wealth.
https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2022/jul/17/express-dialogues-congress-wont-regain-its-past-glory-in-keralakanam-rajendran-2477386.html
The CPI has always been more cautious about its ‘left purity’ than its dominant partner CPM, despite its organisational weaknesses.
https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/indian-farmers-protest-retrospective-w-sandeep-rauzi-and-santosh-kumar-dispatch
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Santosh Kumar and Sandeep Rauzi of to give a retrospective look at the massive Indian Farmers' Protests that went on for over a year, from the perspective of journalist activists on the ground! We discuss the conditions of Indian agricultural workers before the protests, the "Farm Bills" that sparked the protests, what the protests were like, and what has happened since the Indian government has dropped the proposed bills! Sandeep Rauzi and Santosh Kumar are activists and citizen journalists that helped co-found Workers' Unity - an independent media platform dedicated to the struggles of the toiling masses, which focused heavily on the Farmers' Protests. In addition to their website , you can also find them on YouTube , and Facebook . Help spread the word about their media collective! Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. If you have any questions or guest/topic suggestions, email them to us at . Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea. Follow us on social media! Our podcast can be found on twitter @guerrilla_pod, and can be supported on patreon at . Your contributions will make the show possible to continue and succeed! To follow the hosts, Henry can be found on twitter @huck1995, and also has a new Youtube show/podcast he cohosts with our friend Safie called What The Huck?!, which can be found on youtube at or major podcast apps at . Adnan can be followed on twitter @adnanahusain, and also runs The Majlis Podcast, which can be found at and the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives group at Queens University, . Breht is the host of Revolutionary Left Radio, which can be followed on twitter @RevLeftRadio and cohost of The Red Menace Podcast, which can be followed on twitter @Red_Menace_Pod. Follow and support these shows on patreon, and find them at . Thanks to Ryan Hakamaki, who designed and created the podcast's artwork, and Kevin MacLeod, who creates royalty-free music.