By Deputy Editor, Surabhi Chhikara What do the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 1970 oil boom and the recent release of the film Aadujeevitham (Goat Life) have in common? They all relate to the Gulf countries and more precisely to the kafala system- a legal framework that has brought both wealth and tears to migrant labourers [...]
By Urvika Mehra, Junior Editor Cryonics. If you’re familiar with this term from science fiction, you probably think it involves freezing rich, delusional, Elon Musk wannabes who refuse to accept the idea of death. You might be surprised to know that almost every part of that sentence is grossly inaccurate. This article explores why that [...]
A Utopian concept of receiving payment without working By Deputy Editor, Ekanshi Makheja UBI is a government scheme in which every person receives a regular fixed income. It is a scheme that does not require means-testing in the first place, i.e. it is typically intended to reach all with no conditions. It takes different forms [...]
By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC Like George Orwell’s portrayal of state or party surveillance (Big Brother is Watching You), Shoshana Zuboff, as you see above, has got a ground breaking portrayal of the surveillance capitalist practices of corporations such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft. Shoshana, a radical professor retired from [...]
Ekanshi Makheja, Junior Editor We’ve all noticed how the size of the Rs 10 dairy milk chocolate has decreased overtime. Similarly the per unit price of toothpaste has increased and the amount of chips in a chips packet goes on declining. We can also relate this with a very common example of our household budget, [...]
Ekanshi Makheja, Junior Editor We are no strangers to the havoc of social media,in fact, most of us are its victims. An average user spends two and a half hours daily on social media in 2022. Half of our time on our phones is reserved for social media. Facebook is the most popular, costing people [...]
By Dr. Annavajhula J.C. Bose, Department of Economics, SRCC (Review of the Book, Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism, by Linzey, Andrew and Clair Linzey eds.. 2019. Routledge. Pp. 301) That I need to rethink about my food consumption habits not only on moral grounds but also on the realization of the cruelty involved in institutionalized killing [...]
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