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Petrol Price Hikes: Taking A Toll On The Common Man

By Nandini Ray: Is India on its way back to Stone Age? With the inflation rate still stuck at an uncontrollable 9.72 percent in September, withholding the Indian economy at its edge, even a mere whisper of the word ‘hike’ could make any citizen of

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Is The Government Giving It’s Final ‘LOL’ Salaam?

By Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar: Imagine the day when the magic-figure of 9% growth is heralded into the makeshift shanties of the nomadic destitute. Imagine the day when pseudo-developmental models do not constitute the LOC dividing the haves and haves-not. Imagination was never taxed, though the act

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Day 5: Living On Rs. 32 A Day: The Brutal Spell Of Starvation #Rs32ADay

By Pushkal Shivam: The impracticability of the task that I have chosen for myself is manifesting itself in a manner the difference between theory and practice does. Sure, last five days have made me conscious of an abyss of despair that underlies our society. And

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Day 4: Living On Rs. 32 A Day: The Miseries Of The Urban Poor #Rs32ADay

By Pushkal Shivam: This is Part 4 of a 7 part series. The problem with trying to act ‘poor’ is that no one believes you. So when I asked a fruit seller for exactly three bananas, he paused to look at me from head to

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Day 3: Living On Rs. 32 A Day: All You Get Is Travesty Of A Meal #Rs32ADay

By Pushkal Shivam: This is part 3 of our 7 day series. [caption id="attachment_14089" align="alignleft" width="357" caption="Pushkal's Rs. 32"][/caption] The festivities of Dussehra, which symbolize the triumph of good over evil, seem pale in the face of starvation. God, religion and customs are but secondary

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Day 2: Living On Rs. 32 A Day: Is It Really Sufficient? #Rs32ADay

By Pushkal Shivam: This is part 2 of our 7 part series on experiencing how it is to live on Rs. 32 a day. “Poverty is the worst form of violence” and hunger perpetrates this form of violence against its hapless victims. The planning commission

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Day 1: Living On Rs. 32 A Day, Food For Thought #Rs32ADay

By Pushkal Shivam: "The official poverty lines do not measure poverty any more; they measure destitution", wrote Professor Utsa Patnaik in The Hindu. In the affidavit to the Supreme Court, the Planning Commission had pegged the poverty line at Rs. 4824 for a family of