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The tension between the Marathas and the OBCs is diametrically opposed to the idea of social solidarity, the basis of the 19th century anti-caste movement   | Mumbai news

हिंगोली येथे कोट्यवधी रुपये खर्चुन उभारण्यात आलेल्या पालिकेच्या उद्घाटन कार्यक्रमात निमंत्रण पत्रिकेवरील अनेक मान्यवरांनी पाठ फिरवली. त्यातच या कार्याक्रमात कोविडच्या काळात देण्यात आलेला स्वस्त धान्याचा निकृष्ठ गहू चर्�...

A beach in Mumbai in 2019. | Hemanshi Kamani/Reuters The many forms of petrochemical-derived polymers known as plastic are everywhere. Plastics, like other materials and commodities, have what many might term – after anthropologist Arjun Appadurai – rich “social lives”. They are engineered and produced for particular purposes, part of diverse material cultures and patterns of use and consumption. Post-consumption, they are further discarded and exchanged as part of diverse economies and ecologies. Nowhere is the ubiquity of plastics as visible or anxiety-inducing in...

COVID-19: Examining the Impact of Lockdown in India after One Year One year after its announcement in March 2020, the consequences of India’s strict COVID-19 lockdown measures and ineffective policy responses continue to be felt, be it in terms of livelihood loss and economic downturn or increased marginalisation of vulnerable sections of society. On 24 March 2020, with approximately 500 confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 reported in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the country and declared a nationwide lockdown. He announced that “a total ban is being imposed on people, f...