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Radical feminist analyses have always placed considerable emphasis on the crucial role played by social reproduction for the development of capitalism. Early social reproduction analyses – primarily premised on housework but also more broadly concerned with wagelessness – developed a robust critique of Marxian views that identified processes of value-generation only with the productive sphere, and de facto deployed ‘productive’ and ‘paid’ labour as synonyms. 1 Some more recent approaches, by contrast, propose social reproduction as a ‘theory’ (SRT), and deploy the concept in order to focus on how labour is regenerated daily and inter-generationally through private and public institutions in contemporary contexts.

The syllabus of four departments — sociology, political science, history and English— were sent back for review after protests from Professor Rasal Singh, a member of the academic council and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-backed National Democratic Teachers Front (NDTF). "No controversial material, which may hurt the sentiments of any organisation and community, will be included in the syllabi,"a university official told PTI as saying

The ICJ today condemned the raids on 11 July by India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on the homes and offices of Anand Grover and Indira Jaising, two lawyers prominent for frequently challenging the Indian government’s failures to respect and promote the rights of all people in India. Grover and Jaising are both Supreme Court lawyers and co-founders of the Lawyers Collective, a non-governmental organization.

We are a group of former civil servants that takes up, from time to time, matters of exceptional national interest, seeking to remind our cherished democratic institutions of their responsibility to uphold the lofty ideals of the Constitution. We write to you today to draw your attention to the several very troubling and still unexplained issues pertaining to the conduct of the General Elections, 2019, by the Election Commission of India (ECI).

A representation and a written and oral submission were made to the High Court appointed Committee which is inquiring into the issues of limestone mining and its impact on agriculture in Bhavnagar district by Shri Sagar Rabari of Khedut Ekta Manch- Gujarat. 25 June 2019