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Paradox of Employment in India | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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A worker loses his regular job and returns to his village. He begins helping on the family farm, takes construction work when he can find it, and perhaps sells vegetables on days when there is no other work. His wife starts spending more time working on the farm because the household needs another pair of earning hands. Something interesting has happened. There may now be more people working in this household than before. There may also be less unemployment. Yet the family may be economically wo
When More Work Does Not Mean More Power: The Feminisation of Rural Distress in India | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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Something significant has happened to women’s employment in India. For years, one of the troubling features of the Indian economy was the extraordinarily low participation of women in the labour force. That trend has changed sharply. According to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), the labour-force participation rate among women aged 15 years and above rose from 23.3% in 2017-18 to 41.7% in 2023-24. In rural India, the increase was even more striking, from 24.6% to 47.6%. Women who were pre
India’s 7.8% Growth: The Number Is Not the Only Question | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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India’s latest GDP numbers appear to tell an extraordinary story. Real GDP grew by 7.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2026-27. Manufacturing grew by 9.2 per cent, fixed investment by nearly 12 per cent and financial, real-estate and professional services by more than 12 per cent. For the government, the numbers are further evidence of an economy performing exceptionally well. Former Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg has challenged this account. His argument draws attention to a striking f
The Lost Demographic Dividend | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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Imagine the economy as a ball rolling through time. A small ball can be displaced by a minor obstruction. A large ball possesses accumulated momentum and may roll over several impediments before its direction visibly changes. India is a large ball. Its momentum was not created by one government. It rests upon decades of public investment, agricultural transformation, industrialisation, scientific research, universities, infrastructure, trained workers and a vast internal market. This inherited s
Poetry as Testimony: Reading ‘Served Cold from the Refrigerator’ | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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There are books we read primarily for their literary accomplishment. There are others that matter because of the world from which they speak. Sutputra Radheye’s Served Cold from the Refrigerator belongs more convincingly to the latter category. What stayed with me after reading the collection was the life behind it. These poems come from someone for whom inequality is not an academic category or a convenient subject for writing. It has been encountered, observed and lived. Perhaps this is inevit
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