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Oct 16, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Pragathi Ravi |Rama Bijapurkar |Mathangi Krishnamurthy |Sujoy Chakravarty
As the June sun shines bright, River Godavari laps up against the banks of Nathsagar in Paithan, Maharashtra. Chhaya Subhash Kuchir ambles out of her bamboo home to survey her catch. It is late morning. She returned from her fishing expedition five hours ago. “In the evening I lower the net and I pull it out at 5 am the next morning,” she says. Her catch of 5 to 6 kilos of tilapia fish fetches her an average of Rs.20 to Rs.30 a kilo every day.
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Oct 16, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Pragathi Ravi |Rama Bijapurkar |Mathangi Krishnamurthy |Sujoy Chakravarty
As the June sun shines bright, River Godavari laps up against the banks of Nathsagar in Paithan, Maharashtra. Chhaya Subhash Kuchir ambles out of her bamboo home to survey her catch. It is late morning. She returned from her fishing expedition five hours ago. “In the evening I lower the net and I pull it out at 5 am the next morning,” she says. Her catch of 5 to 6 kilos of tilapia fish fetches her an average of Rs.20 to Rs.30 a kilo every day.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Rama Bijapurkar |Mathangi Krishnamurthy |Sujoy Chakravarty |M. Suresh Babu
Pakistan was established on a flawed and skewed idea and is run not by a civilian government but by its rogue army that has been dictating its every move and initiative (Cover Story, October 18). Even as India-Pak relations have come to naught, Pakistan continues to promote cross-border terrorism. And yet all its efforts to disturb India have failed miserably. It is time the civilian government of Pakistan and its military moved the coin first with India. This can only benefit both countries.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Rama Bijapurkar |Mathangi Krishnamurthy |Sujoy Chakravarty |M. Suresh Babu
Francis Itty CoraT.D. Ramakrishnan, translated by Priya K NairHarperCollins IndiaRs.399This Malayalam classic is a genre-bender combining history, myth, mystery and magic. Set in present-day Kerala, war-torn Iraq, ancient Alexandria, and Renaissance Florence, the novel is a romp through history.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Kazi Islam |Rama Bijapurkar |Mathangi Krishnamurthy |Sujoy Chakravarty
He was walking through an impassable thorny way. At one stage he turned back and saw millions of steadfast gazes fixed upon him. An incandescent lustre of seething excitement and expectation radiated from those gazes. It filled the traveller’s heart with an intoxicating pride.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Sujoy Chakravarty |Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy
Unemployment among younger workers in the labour force has been a worrying global trend from the turn of the century. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), young people are three times as likely as adults to be unemployed. The youth unemployment rate has been rising over the past several decades in the world—from 5.6 per cent in 2000 to 6.2 per cent in 2012, and then increasing threefold, to nearly 18 per cent in 2018, and reaching around 15.1 per cent in 2020.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Sujoy Chakravarty
9 hours agoNot saying hello to a colleague could break employment laws, a tribunal has suggested. The ruling came in the case of a recruitment manager who won an unfair dismissal claim after complaining that her managing director refused to say hello to her. Nadine Hanson had greeted Andrew Gilchrist, her new …
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May 2, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Saba Naqvi |Paranjoy Guha Thakurta |Sujoy Chakravarty
As I write this, a blazing summer is well underway across the country accompanied by the return of vitriol to the campaign trail. Prime Minister Modi’s brazenly communal reference to “ghuspaithiye” (infiltrators) and “those who have more children” forced even the otherwise pliant Election Commission to take cognisance. Albeit timorously conveyed to BJP president J.P. Nadda alone, it marks the first time the EC has had to recognise a code of conduct violation by a Prime Minister.
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May 2, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Saba Naqvi |Paranjoy Guha Thakurta |Sujoy Chakravarty
Fool BahadurJayanath Pati, translated by Abhay K. India Penguin Modern ClassicsRs.250This forgotten Magahi novel follows the career of a young law officer who navigates the bureaucratic corridors of colonial Bihar to win the prized British title of Rai Bahadur. Told in his voice, it makes for a witty commentary on Bihar’s colonial society. This is the first-ever translation of the novel.
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May 2, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Sujoy Chakravarty |Vaishna Roy |Saba Naqvi |Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Unemployment and underemployment have always been important issues in post-Independence India. We have always been a primarily agrarian, labour-surplus economy with low capital stock that has manifested in low industrial productivity and a largely non-remunerative, monsoon-dependent agricultural sector. Key metrics for measuring the health of the job market are the labour force participation rate (LFPR) and the unemployment rate.
