Jayati Ghosh
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I'm truly delighted to have just received the Galbraith Award 2023, even though I don't deserve the very generous citation.
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Centre to States: I owe you money, but I won't repay what I owe. Instead, I will allow you to borrow money that you won't be able to repay. Imagine a regular economic agent trying this with anyone.
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Sudha Bharadwaj, who spent her life fighting for the human rights of others, will now spend her second birthday in jail denied of her own rights - even books are being denied to her by prison authorities! How long can such oppression go on?
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Now the National Statistical Commission no longer exists! Both remaining members have resigned after the government refuses to release the NSSO employment report they had vetted!
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Sorry Yogendra, I and many others are still shocked, even appalled, that you would advocate NOTA anywhere in the country in such a crucial election in which democracy itself is at stake.
We've received a lot of feedback on the issue of use of NOTA in Lok Sabha elections in the NCT of Delhi.
Hope my statement here clarifies clarifies the position of Swaraj India on this issue.
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Actually the other way around - there is a famous photo of Sitaram Yechury reading out a letter asking Indira Gandhi to resign as Chancellor in her presence - as she subsequently did. But too much to expect some basic research before desperately tweeting without knowledge....
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I'm truly shocked at the lack of solidarity displayed by senior faculty of
@AshokaUniv
. They have so little to lose from defending basic academic freedom. Silence enables injustice, and it spreads.
@BD_ashoka
@_ADeshpande
@PulapreB
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Imagine when a former Election Commissioner is forced to remind the completely compromised ECI of its basic rules and duties.
If this election is being brazenly stolen, the Opposition must go beyond polite requests to those who are complicit in this, to mobilise the public.
EC guidelines on return of EVMs - both polled and unused reserved.
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More than two-fifths of Indian population worse off than the poor in Burundi; richest compare with top 10% in rich countries.
@AunindyoC
points to "an internal colonisation, where a minuscule super-rich population has taken everything away from the rest."
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If we produce a word document signed by an "Arnab" and claim that this is proof that Arnab Goswami is conspiring to assassinate Rahul Gandhi, will Pune police and Republic TV accept it?
#PunePoliceJawabDo
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Statements like this should be coming from the central government. Thanks
@vijayanpinarayi
for reminding us what a government is supposed to do.
Nobody will go hungry during the lockdown. Next week onwards free food kits will be distributed for all families and guest workers. Food will be delivered to the needy from People's Restaurants and Community Kitchens through Local Self Government Institutions.
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So financial companies are the latest to call the Modi government's bluff on the fiscal stimulus - estimated at 1% of GDP instead of 10%. It's not only about fooling people: the economy really needs a big stimulus to avoid complete collapse.
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In the Vatican for a conference on sovereign debt, on the day after the Indian electorate (especially from rural India) kept democracy alive.
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Sudha Bharadwaj, who suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure and arthritis, is now found to have ischemia. She's being kept in a jail that has Covid-19 infections. Is the idea to kill these prisoners before trial? What prevents her getting bail?
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One of India's finest citizens has just spent a third birthday in jail, on completely ridiculous charges, denied basic justice.
The 2017 birthday Sudha Bharadwaj celebrated before her arrest. Organized by her dear daughter Anu, attended by Mukul Priyadarshini, Sudha and I. And some young friends of Anu!
I hope she is released soon and we are back to some joy and adda!
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The protesting farmers in Delhi have started a new YouTube channel called Kisan Ekta Morcha. Please subscribe, share and like. Farmer leaders want to get 10 million subscribers by 25/12/20. Please forward and share.
Please forward
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More than a Month after the violence at JNU -
No FIR? No Identification? No Arrest?
Delhi Police Jawab Do!!
Join Teachers' Protest at Delhi Police HQ, ITO
Monday 10 February 2020
Assemble outside Pearey Lal Bhawan Gate, ITO at 11.30 am
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"We as American Jews will not be used, we will not be complicit and we will not be silent. Judaism is a beautiful, thousands-year-old tradition, and Israel is a 76-year-old colonial apartheid state,” Morgan Bassichis, an organizer with Jewish Voice
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Clear, accurate (and devastating) assessment of the Indian economy under the Modi government, by
@70sBachchan
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Time for all those supporting
@pbhushan1
to pay one rupee towards a fund for legal aid for political prisoners. It will come to millions, for sure.
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I'm truly honoured and delighted to be asked to deliver the Galbraith Lecture and receive the Galbraith award for 2023.
We are excited to announce this year's Galbraith Forum Speaker Jayati Ghosh from
@PERIatUMass
#AAEA2023
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This statement is doing the rounds: "Due to covid travel restrictions the US had to set up a coup locally this year."
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Stirring piece from Amartya Sen: " No government lasts forever, even though the ruling group might have the illusion that they will."
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This is huge: former ABVP members admit that they planned the false "sedition" allegations about a JNU student meeting in Feb 2016, to distract attention from the Rohit Vemula suicide. Modi govt still using this to accuse and try to jail innocent students!
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Happy 90th birthday--and wishing for many more years of an incredibly productive life--to one of the most iconic intellectuals of our times
#AmartyaSen
. So many of us have learned so much from his wide-ranging and profound contributions.
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Compare this to the treatment of Umar Khalid, four years of prison on blatantly ridiculous charges and without bail for no justifiable reason. Shame on our courts...
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court grants anticipatory bail to the IAF Wing Commander accused of rape by a woman officer in the Srinagar airbase. Says an arrest will jeopardise his reputation and his career.
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Once again I repeat, we are so proud of our amazing JNU students, who are fighting for the future of the country.
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Completely planned attack, hundreds of outsiders were brought in early afternoon with sticks, and were clearly waiting for instructions. Police were parked outside waiting well before anything happened, and appear to have allowed the violence
Horrifying. Happening in a university campus. Sickening that specific universities are being targeted in this vicious communal polarisation strategy!
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Instead of celebrating this tax avoidance as "smart", shouldn't we talk about fixing a system that allows companies to game it and deny tax revenues to the state and citizens?
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Let's bring our democracy back from the brink by supporting impressive young politicians like
@kanhaiyakumar
and
@jigneshmevani80
Please support
#Kanhaiya4Begusarai
There are many who look at Kanhaiya Kumar and see hope for India’s political future. For them his candidature is more than a mere election affair.
#Kanhaiya4Begusarai
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Farewell to another dear friend felled by Covid: Ranjana Nirula, committed and compassionate, fearless and selfless activist for workers' and women's rights. A fount of empathy, finding joy in the smallest things. We miss you so much already.
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5 weeks into lockdown, 64% of migrants have less than Rs 100 with them; more than 97% have not received any cash relief from the government. On May Day, another devastating report on the state of migrant workers stranded across India from
@StrandedWorkers
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So much of "New India" with its old inequality in this video: collapsing infrastructure devastated by climate change, human ingenuity grasping any income-earning opportunity in a jobless economic context, barefoot worker serving the middle class...
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It is really heart-wrenching to learn that Sudha Bharadwaj is yearning for more books to read in prison. What inhumanity!! Please share widely our demand that prisoners be provided reading and writing material.
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What an astonishing list from The Economist: Books that effectively treat European economic history as self-contained, and ignore or trivialise the crucial role of predatory colonialism. Denial of the past is a poor guide to current or future reality.
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We have lost another giant of Economics. Makoto Itoh, profound and careful thinker, who applied a Marxian approach to the study of global capitalism, economic development and the Japanese economy, was also a wonderful human being who will be greatly missed.
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I'm honored and delighted to have received a Fellow Award 2023 from
@IEA_economics
, and especially to be in the company of my inspirational colleague at
@UMassEcon
, Sam Bowles.
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Respect and birthday wishes for India's finest historian, Professor Irfan Habib, who turns 89 today. We cannot match his brilliance and erudition, but we can strive for some of his passionate commitment and unflagging energy. A continuing inspiration.
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Great to see so many more faculty of
@AshokaUniv
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Late-flowering laburnum on JNU campus this morning. Der aaye durust aaye.
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In India, more people may die of hunger than Covid-19 because of economic devastation. Immediately provide free food rations and basic income support to all informal workers, and provide basics like water and soap.
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Finding the money to fix the world requires a rethink on tax, says Jayati Ghosh from TheEconomist
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Delhi Govt Relief forms require a copy of Police FIR to be attached. The Police are not registering FIRs. Muslim youth who visit the Police Station to register FIRs are arrested as rioteers. This official insensitivity must stop!
@AtishiAAP
@msisodia
@AamAadmiParty
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I am constantly being asked by international reporters why the Modi government is not releasing foodgrain stocks - and I simply cannot think of a logical explanation.....
Modi govt's own survey shows that people are going hungry, skipping meals or eating less. FCI godowns are overflowing, but govt has not ordered opening them to feed the people. This is precisely what the British did during the Bengal famine: godowns full, Indians dying of hunger.
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Welcome statement from
@AshokaUniv
student group in support of academic freedom. Now awaiting some response from faculty.
Solidarity statement from student group of
@AshokaUniv
with Prof Sabyasachi Das.
*Leher* is student group at Ashoka University.
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I argue that the mainstream discipline of economics needs to change drastically if it is to be of any use in confronting the pressing challenges we face in the world today.
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This was bound to happen, as the FCI is holding storage way beyond its capacity, only because the central government refuses to release food to the hungry. Soon much of this will be inedible and unfit for human consumption....
Food rotting in open godowns in Haryana in Covid lockdown times! Can there be a greater indictment of our governance? Pics sent by colleague Anand Patel who is reporting the story for
@IndiaToday
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So proud of JNU students, who are fighting not just for themselves, but for the future of public education in India, and to ensure that everyone - regardless of accidents of birth and income - gets a chance to access the best education.
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Both India and China are vaccine producers. So the stark difference in vaccination rates really points to differences in governmental competence in the two countries.
China is vaccinating 18 million people a day, 8 times faster than India. Both countries have 1.4 billion people
At this rate it'll take China only 80 days till all the population has a single dose, while it will take India 2 yrs
#COVID19
#CovidVaccine
cc
@DrEricDing
@EricTopol
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The inimitable Jane Fonda: "when I say that I’m fighting the climate crisis, I also feel that I’m fighting patriarchy and racism. It’s important because we have to get out of the silos — feminists over here, environmentalists over here."
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This must be a first in the history of ISI, and a real indication of the extent to which the Modi government has alienated everyone involved in higher education.
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Professors and students threatened with violence at the police station when they try to file a complaint, while the police stand around without responding. What is happening to my university and my country?
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The brilliant Jamie Galbraith at his incisive best, putting in context the explanatory power of
@IsabellaMWeber
's arguments on inflation in advanced economies, the reportage of
@zachdcarter
and the socio-economics of the crazed response.
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This jail is where Sudha Bharadwaj and Shoma Sen - arrested on false charges - face a real threat to their lives because of age and co-morbidities that make them more susceptible to Covid-19. They must be released immediately.
After Arthur Road and Satara prison, COVID-19 infection has now reached Byculla women's prison. Along with over 220 women (+ a few male) prisoners lodged here, at least 26 children— between 0 to 6 years of age— are confined here.
My report
@thewire_in
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The extraordinary courage and fortitude displayed by Aishe and others like her should not make us ignore the trauma they have faced. The perpetrators walk fre, on campus, adding to the trauma. And the victims have to face court cases.
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Absolutely delighted to learn that Sudha Bharadwaj has deservedly won the best author award for non fiction with her sensitive, insightful and illuminating book on the lives of women in an Indian prison.
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This is truly breathtaking, this outpouring of solidarity. This is why we love India.
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On this date, every year since 1992, I remember one woman in particular, Krishna Bharadwaj: the brilliant and insightful economist, inspiring and generous teacher, humane, ethical and warm hearted person. We are so lucky to have had her in our lives.
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There are many more reasons to condemn
@DelhiPolice
commissioner's legacy. In JNU alone, police escorted the goons out safely, held a press conference accusing the victims and have refused to register complaints or draw up chargesheets despite evidence.
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Immediately release Varavara Rao, 81 year old prisoner of conscience who is now very seriously ill in jail. Here's an urgent appeal from SC petitioners. Do not allow him to die in jail!
#freevaravararao
#releasevaravararao
#ReleaseAllPoliticalPrisoners
#scrapuapa
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Yesss!!!
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I'm now ashamed at having contributed to a chapter in a
@BloomsburyIndia
book. When the history of our times is written, the role of publishers who colluded and published falsehoods to serve current powers will also be noted. Shame on you. You're no longer a credible publisher.
Book launch is secondary issue m. You are publishing a book of lies. That is the primary reason you are being called out
@BloomsburyIndia
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Happy 80th birthday to the most wonderfully warm, charming, generous, democratically minded professor
@JosephEStiglitz
, who is incidentally also a brilliant economist. May we all benefit from many more decades of his insights, integrity and commitment to economic justice.
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IPCC scientists recommended that all coal and gas plants must be shut down within a decade - but this was removed from the Summary for Policy Makers, by vested interests. Humanity and the planet will pay the horrific costs.
via
@ecosocialism1
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Useful and approachable summary of the important work of
@IsabellaMWeber
, showing why policy makers are taking this argument seriously - even if they do not publicly acknowledge her contributions.
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Definitely time to dissociate from
@IndianExpress
- a paper that brazenly promotes hatred in a half page spread on its front page. No excuses for this.
Contributors with conscience must stop writing and buying
@IndianExpress
!!!
@ramakumarr
@Jayati1609
@arjun_jayadev
@kaushikcbasu
@saliltripathi
@bprerna
@pbmehta
@AmartyaLahiri
@JeanDreze
Glad to see
@Apoorvanand__
has already decided to do this!!
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You Can't Jail An Idea
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Appalling and depressing news - a public intellectual with 90% disability denied bail in India, exposed to Covid-19 in prison, now infected with potentially horrifying consequences.
#ReleaseAllPoliticalprisoners
"Dr. G. N. Saibaba tested positive for Covid 19 in Nagpur Central Jail.
Just now I got a call from Saibaba and he is now being taken to Nagpur Government Medical College for X ray and CT scan
---- Vasantha & Ramdev"
#ReleaseAllPoliticalPrisoners
#ReleaseprofessorSaibaba
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A great explainer from Jean Dreze, clarifying the debate on wealth and inheritance taxes in India.
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Modi government's headline management is as strong as ever. All major media outlets are announcing 10% fiscal stimulus, when actual new public spending is likely to be around 3% at most. This is very low compared to actual need or to other countries.
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Brazil's impressive new anti-hunger program aims to shift the structural determinants of inequalities that create hunger among different groups. A model for the rest of the world.
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Let's be clear, these were outsiders with weapons brought in with the connivance of the JNU administration and in full view of the police who were stationed outside well before. These are state supported hooligans.
#JNUViolence
completely unacceptable and shameful. I condemn the violence is no uncertain terms and demand immediate action against the hooligans.
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The double standards of the IMF on full display! Ecuador, Argentina, Nigeria and many other developing countries still getting austerity forced on them by the same IMF encouraging fiscal expansion in the US and EU.
IMF to the world: We have changed. We need more progressive tax policies and less adjustment
IMF to Nigeria: VAT rates must increase from 7.5 to 15% and bring down expenditure levels to pre crisis levels 🤷♂️
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So delighted to learn that
@JoseA_Ocampo
will be Colombia's next Finance Minister - so good for Colombia, Latin America and for the developing world!
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Police were not"helpless", they were complicit. They stood and watched the violence, prevented bleeding victims in ambulances from leaving the gate, and after 3 hours of mayhem, escorted the goons safely out of campus. We expect at least you to tell the truth!
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Always proud of
#JNU
students!
The U.S. Ambassador was supposed to visit JNU... and then he had to back out.
We stand with the protesting students in various campuses in U.S. who are being targeted for standing with Palestine. We will not allow GENOCIDERS any space in our campus.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸✊
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If this is true, then it is even more terrifying than what we already know about the conflict in Manipur.
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This 👇🏽 absolutely brilliant and brief expose of Big Pharma by
@RepKatiePorter
is an object lesson in presenting the case clearly and sharply.
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The sedentary men of India who think women are not farmers should try some of these bending and squatting positions, even for a few minutes....
On
#WomenFarmersDay
, a photo story on the incredible hard yards that women put in each day in agriculture.
The landowner here in Anantapur is standing tall while the row of 9 women workers doubled over, are doing transplantation work on his field. 📷
@PSainath_org
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There is a practical way to make an income guarantee promise achievable.
If you want to help the poor | The Indian Express via
@IndianExpress
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My initial take on Budget 2020-21 and why we should not take any of its numbers seriously.
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This deserves to be more widely known: a summary of new research by Utsa Patnaik on how the colonial drain helped to fund the industrial revolution and higher living standards in Britain for centuries.
Britain drained a total of nearly $45 trillion from India during the colonial period.
That's 17 times more than the total annual GDP of the United Kingdom today. It's a staggering sum.
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Here's a terrific explanation from James Galbraith of the latest US mess that the world has been watching in horror - the Texas power collapse that resulted from electricity deregulation.
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I was lucky to witness the amazing beauty of a New England autumn
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This is the moment for massive expansion of MNREGA, beginning with 200 days work per rural household and enlarging the list of permissible works - and for developing a works programme for urban areas.
If this is an example of an "monumental failure", then we should have had some more "monumental failures", coz this "monumental failure" is the only semblance of hope for crores of migrant labor, which had no choice but to move back to villages on account of a flawed Vikas model.
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