Gas: ₹1,000 Fuel: ₹2,000 Water bill: ₹1,000 Electricity: ₹1,000 House rent: ₹5,000 Commuting: ₹2,000 Kids school fees: ₹3,000 Food & groceries: ₹5,000 Total expenses: ₹20,000 Salary of workers: ₹10,000 However, protests should not be violent, but GODI media covers

wHY do ThEY prOteST, wHY nOt jUSt SwItCH jOBs

Massive protests by domestic helps in Cleo County in Sector 121 in Noida. They have apparently gheraoed the society and have even shattered the glass door of one of the buildings. CEO, NOIDA Authority DM NOIDA Gautam Buddha Nagar CM Office, GoUP Office of Dr Mahesh Sharma Pankaj Singh

you have to be severely out of touch to think this is ‘naxalism’. she’s saying something most economists know: incomes have simply not caught on with the relentless cost of living in big cities

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The editors of these news channels have probably been instructed on Whatsapp by their political bosses (some Hiren Joshi like figure) to put out the 'revelation' that workers were communicating via Whatsapp.

The unspoken Hindutva bargain for upper middle class is that the sea of human despair that surrounds them, and whose cheap labour they benefit from, can be diverted into 'rage' at the Other: gau raksha, mosque dances etc. Once that rage is turned onto them it becomes 'terrifying'

Disturbing israeli footage of 60 Palestinians being inhumanly crammed & transported into israeli custody using a waste-disposal rubbish truck

Noida revolution has reached Varanasi. BHU contractual and daily wage workers protest to be made permanent.

हमारे बच्चों को हम भूखा सुलाते हैं. सीने से लगाकर लोरी सुनाते हैं, ताकि उन्हें भूख की याद ना आए. - 10 हजार की मामूली सैलरी में काम करने वाले इस कर्मचारी को सुनें ये है असल भारत. ये है चौथी सबसे बड़ी इकॉनमी.

An Odiya & a Bihari - who are Kerala’s son-in-laws - doing a Vishu Sadya spread in Uttar Pradesh. Photo taken by a Punjabi

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Comrades from the CPI (M) are sitting in protest outside the DM Noida office. In spite of repeated assurances of a meeting it has not materialised so far. Despite being moved from place to place, the administration has not engaged. Disturbingly, three #CITU leaders have been

Adieu Com. Vijay Singh (1947-2026) Progressive thinker, editor of 'Revolutionary Democracy' and former professor of History at DU passed away today after battling with advanced stage cancer. Condolences to family and comrades.

The women's reservation bill has been defeated. The NDA never had 2/3rd to begin with. Why did they bring it then? To get the Congress (& others) to vote against women's reservation in parliament for the first time The gist of my column today.

He had twelve years to lift India. He squandered that time lying to Indians, destroying institutions, erecting a personality cult, enriching his cronies, and deploying hate to divide and subdivide Indians. May today’s defeat be the beginning of his swift political end.

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