Women of Wayanad & the battle for climate write offs

The women of Wayanad affected by the devastating 2024 landslide that scarred their lives and lands, have achieved a significant victory at the Kerala high court in their battle for loan relief. A bench...

Read more November 21, 2025 at 5:44 pm Anirban Bhattacharya & Amitanshu Verma

The Shaping of a Welfare Regime

Excerpt from Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-level Democracy By Louise Tillin, published in 2025 by Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom. The struggles of workers, employers, and the state to...

Read more November 13, 2025 at 5:39 pm Louise Tillin

Indian Banking Paradox: Accounting Profit Vs Social Profit

We are in the midst of major changing times in recent history; internationally, domestically in general and the Indian banking system in particular. First time after independence, Indian banks are being sold to foreign...

Read more November 12, 2025 at 11:21 am Sanjeev Chandorkar

A Note on Agriculture Debt Relief in Maharashtra

In 2017, Maharashtra implemented an agriculture debt relief scheme that waived debt amounting to ₹18,762 crore. This was followed by another debt relief program in 2019 for an amount of ₹20,497 crore. In the...

Read more November 10, 2025 at 6:23 pm Devidas Tuljapurakar

बिहार चुनाव में जंगल राज बनाम सरकारी नौकरी की बौछार

बिहार की राजनीति में अपराध, जाति और सत्ता का त्रिकोण लंबे समय से निर्णायक भूमिका निभाता आया है।जंगल राज’ शब्द का पहली बार प्रयोग 1997 में हुआ था, और उसका संदर्भ आज के राजनीतिक...

Read more October 28, 2025 at 4:29 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

मीठा कफ सिरप का जहरीला कारोबार

मध्यप्रदेश में जहरीले कफ सिरप से मरने वाले बच्चों की संख्या 16 हो गया है। हाल ही में राजस्थान के भरतपुर और सीकर ज़िले में भी बच्चों को कप सिरप पिलाने से मौत हुई...

Read more October 7, 2025 at 2:53 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

Civil society leaders urge RBI and banks to provide loan relief amid 2025 monsoon disaster losses

More than 100 civil society organisations and individuals — including Medha Patkar of Narmada Bachao Andolan, Shaktiman Ghosh of the National Hawkers Federation, Thomas Franco, former General Secretary of the All India Bank Officers...

Read more September 16, 2025 at 4:43 pm Counterview

A note complicating the claims around financial inclusion through Banking

When the RBI announced recently that its Financial Inclusion Index had jumped from 64.2 to 67 this year, celebrating “significant improvement,” it painted a rosy picture that masks a troubling reality. The Department of...

Read more September 3, 2025 at 11:35 am Anirban Bhattacharya

Women demand basic dignity, access to credit and monitoring micro finance by States

The National Public Hearing on Rising Indebtedness of Women and MFI Loot, convened by the All India Democratic Women’s Association, on 23-24 August 2025 at New Delhi highlighted the failure of the Government of...

Read more September 3, 2025 at 10:20 am Thomas Franco

From Credit to Crisis: India’s Women in Debt I Finance Matters, 22 August 2025 I Editorial

A new nationwide survey has laid bare the dark side of India’s microfinance boom. Conducted by the All India Democratic Women’s Association across 15 states, the study of 6,685 women shows how non-banking finance...

Read more August 28, 2025 at 1:14 pm CFA

BULA BILL TO SAVE SHYLOCKS?

The Statement of the Peoples Commission on Public Sector and Public Services has declared that the BULA Bill fails to rein in predatory lending activities.The summary of the statements is given below: The Department...

Read more August 19, 2025 at 3:17 pm Thomas Franco

Micro Loans Are Driving an Already Forsaken Population Further Into Distress

The people for whom such micro-credits become a lifeline are those who are not considered credit worthy by the formal banking system. ‘These are the people for whom such micro-credits become a lifeline as...

Read more August 12, 2025 at 3:49 pm Amitanshu Verma, Anirban Bhattacharya and Haripriya B Harshan

By pushing people to money lenders the Union Govt and RBI are implementing Manusmriti

History shows that in primitive society there was no money lending and people shared their natural resources. In India, the concept of lending has been recorded during the Mauryan age, i.e., 321–185 BCE. Kautilya’s...

Read more August 8, 2025 at 3:02 pm Thomas Franco

India’s Unequal Tax Structure: The Rich Pay Less, The Rest Get Less

In effect, India’s tax system mimics advanced economies in numbers but lacks the redistributive structure of the progressive nations.The World Economic Forum (WEF) has described severe income inequality as the biggest risk facing the...

Read more August 1, 2025 at 11:35 am Pranay Raj

संसाधनों के नियंत्रण को लेकर आदिवासीयों और सरकार के बीच द्वंद्व

देश के 15 प्रतिशत भूखंड में आदिवासी समूह रहते हैं।वन, खदान, बांध आदि परियोजनाओं ने आदिवासियों के जीवन व जीविका को काफी प्रभावित किया है।58 आदिवासी बहुल जिलों में 67 प्रतिशत से अधिक जंगल...

Read more July 6, 2025 at 6:19 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

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