Women and men in the informal economy: a statistical picture ILO

https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/documents/publication/wcms_626831.pdf

Globally, 15.7 per cent of employees in permanent full-time employment hold informal jobs, i.e. having no employment related social and labour protections. The proportion of employees in informal employment increases significantly among part-time employees (44.0 per cent), and among employees in temporary employment (59.6 per cent) and is highest for employees in “temporary part-time jobs” (64.4 per cent), especially among men (68.1 per cent). Women part time employees are less likely than men to be informal. Just above one-third of women employees working less than 35 hours a week are in informal employment, as compared to 54.2 per cent among men

The proportion of workers in time-related underemployment is higher among workers in informal employment in most countries. Workers in informal employment are even more likely to work excessive hours (more than 48 hours a week or even more than 60 hours a week), especially employees. This phenomenon in Asia and the Pacific is extreme, but working longer hours when holding informal jobs seems to be the reality for half of all employees in the developing and emerging world. This reality is significantly different from the situation of employees in developed countries, as less than 16 per cent work long hours, without any difference between formal or informal employment. Own-account
workers show a different picture, as own-account workers owning formal economic units tend to work longer hours than their counterparts operating informally.

Court directs govt to appoint special public prosecutor in trial against police officers
 https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/agnelo-valdaris-custodial-death-case-cbi-pocso-act-trial-against-eight-police-officials-in-grp-theft-case-8953366/

Special Judge S M Menjoge said that Agnelo had died in police custody and the high court has directed to frame charges against the accused police personnel including under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code. “This court cannot differentiate the directions given by Hon’ble High Court that it is not in respect of custodial death in other cases. Custodial death means custodial death,”     The CBI in its probe had said the death could not be considered a murder and sought for the accused police personnel to be charged for assault and sections of POCSO. The high court had, however, directed the trial court to charge the police officials for murder.

In Satara, murder during a prayer https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/in-maharashtras-satara-murder-during-a-prayer/article67334686.ece
On September 10, ... According to the police, the violence was alleged ly triggered by two ‘objectionable’ messages — one about Lord Rama and Sita and another about Shivaji Maharaj — posted by two young Muslims on a social media platform. As soon as the social media monitoring team of the local police came across the post, they picked up one of the men, while the other, a native of Pusesavali, was traced to Kolhapur. “While the police were questioning a young man about the post at the outpost, some people began to create a ruckus outside the out post. They started moving towards the mosque.
It all happened within a few minutes,” says a senior police officer, who is privy to the investigation. The officer says at least 10 policemen suffered injuries. The mob torched a couple of police vehicles, he says. The mob, which allegedly consisted of Hindu men from Pursesavali and the neighbouring villages of Thorvewadi NV and Wadgaon Jairam Swami, reached the mosque and began rioting.

Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan has raised concerns over police inaction in the Pusesavali riot, labelling it a “preplanned and predetermined coldblooded murder.” Chavan claims that the State government has been actively polarising people through social media in the leadup to the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. He said to The Hindu: “During my visit, the people informed me that the rioters
continuously chanted, “‘Hamara Home Minister hai, kuch nahi hoga” (Our Home Minister is with us; nothing will happen to us)’. I believe this incident is part of a pogrom and I demand a judicial inquiry into the riot. Chief Minister Eknath
Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis should visit the bereaved family. The rioters wanted to terrorise the Muslim community.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI6WHnm220I भारत बना माइनॉरिटी पर अत्याचार का हब_रिपोर्ट में बड़ा खुलासा, UN report On Indian Minorities, pm modi

Full text of submission by Fernand de Varenes: UN Special Rapporteur https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/Fernand%20de%20Varennes%20Testimony.pdf Human rights defenders, lawyers and journalists, face harassment, surveillance or even detention under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. Nongovernmental organizations have also been targeted and in some cases closed under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act.
Let me repeat: India risks becoming one of the world’s main generators of instability, atrocities and violence, because of the massive scale and gravity of the violations and abuses targeting mainly religious and other minorities such as Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and others. It is not just individual or local, it is systematic and a reflection of religious nationalism.

Official silence over violent attacks and rhetoric is encouraging majority nationalist groups to even more brazen violence with a religious tint.  The violence in Manipur is also a warning of the dangers of inaction.

A study noted a 786% increase in hate crimes against minorities between 2014 and 2018 - Dominance of Majoritarian Poltics and Hate Crimes Against Religious Minorties in India, 2009-2018, Deepankar Basu, Political Economy Research Institute. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1274&context=econ_workingpaper

Disturbing visuals https://youtu.be/JZpSINiulDg

Deepankar Basu and Tania Li: Rethinking issues of labour and precarity under contemporary capitalism  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aTzRpElLyM Association for Heterodox Economics  Sep 19, 2022
Plenary with Deepankar Basu (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Tania Li (University of Toronto) at the 24th Annual AHE conference, July 2022.

Deepankar Basu is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on three areas: long run evolution of capitalist economies with a focus on issues of profitability, capital accumulation and technical change; various aspects of economic development in India including nutrition, food security, the informal sector, employment, and electoral outcomes; various topics in applied econometrics, including bias of OLS estimators. His book, The Logic of Capital: An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. He has published many articles in peer reviewed journals.

Tania Murray Li is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her publications include Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Zone (with Pujo Semedi, Duke University Press 2021), Land's End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier (Duke University Press, 2014), Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia (with Derek Hall and Philip Hirsch, NUS Press, 2011), The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics (Duke University Press, 2007) and many articles on land, labour, class,capitalism, development, resources and indigeneity with a particular focus on Indonesia. https://www.taniali.org/

 Prabhat Patnaik: Crisis in Capitalism or Crisis of Capitalism  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTfIbOQhTjs Prabhat Patnaik  Aug 1, 2022 Keynote speech by Prabhat Patnaik (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Prabhat Patnaik is an Indian Marxist economist and political commentator. He taught at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, from 1974 until his retirement in 2010. He was the vice-chairman of Kerala State Planning Board from June 2006 to May 2011.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/magazine/hank-asher-data.html

Canada’s Allegation Creates a Dissonance in the Post-G20 Narratives About India  https://thewire.in/diplomacy/india-canada-nijjar-modi  Nirupama Subramanian 21/Sep/2023

"What the Canadian allegation has done is to call out the paradox: abroad, the Modi government wants to be seen as Vishwaguru, a rules-abiding global leader who is a reliable partner of the West, and at home as a take-no-prisoners, tough-talking don, who can ghus ke fix all perceived enemies."  For Delhi, which wants to be seen rubbing shoulders at the high table with the G7 even as it claims the leadership of the “global south”, Canada’s allegation has created a dissonance in the post-G20 narratives about India, its influence and clout, its convening power, and its bridging capabilities. All this because India has worked hard to project itself as a land of 1.5 billion people that is not China.

It is not too well known that at the time, the CSIS wanted R&AW to sign off on a MoU listing do’s and don’ts for foreign intelligence operatives, which the Indian agency refused to do. Over the next few years, R&AW and IB did not post anyone in Canada. A semblance of Indian intelligence presence in Canada was maintained through the Bureau of Security in the Ministry of External Affairs, manned mainly by police officers. These officials are posted to missions abroad to manage the security of the diplomats. In Canada, in a decade crucial for India’s battle to save Punjab, they were tasked with part-time intelligence work too. This continued until matters were resolved in the mid-1990s,

Terry Glavin: After Trudeau alleges murder plot, Canada-India relations may be irreparable https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-glavin-after-trudeau-alleges-murder-plot-canada-india-relations-may-be-irreparable  Who are these 'credible allegations' coming from? Sep 19, 2023 In the column, in which he lights into Trudeau for “irreparably” damaging ties with India and handing Beijing a victory, Glavin suggests that the BJP was in touch with Ripudaman Malik, one of three main accused in the Kanishka bombing case.   in the background is what became largely a covert operation, a backchannel reconciliation effort between Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party and veteran Canadian Khalistanis who were growing weary of agitating for a separate Sikh state in India that India’s Sikhs want nothing to do with... but the Trudeau government bowed to a Khalistani-influenced group of gurudwara leaders and “obstructed the peace dialogue ..process,”

According to the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, Muslim girls face the temptation of apostasy because of the coeducation system, while claiming that it opposes coeducation and opposes women's education https://www.outlookindia.com/national/against-co-education-not-women-s-education-jamiat-ulema-e-hind-news-252228

Comment in WA by VC: 

What is the 'temptation of apostasy', according to them?

Just asking out of curiosity, while wondering whether only the women in coed institutions face this potentially dread fate, and no other genders?

What Can Cause Apostasy in the Church?

Causes of apostasy: persecution (Matthew 24:9-10); false teachers (Matthew 24:11); temptation (Luke 8:13); worldliness (2 Timothy 4:4); defective knowledge of Christ (1 John 2:19); moral lapse (Hebrews 6:4-6); forsaking worship and spiritual living (Hebrews 10:25-31); unbelief (Hebrews 3:12). - https://www.christianity.com/wiki/christian-terms/what-is-apostasy.html In the current context - The one question that I was asked by a padre in college to test apostasy was "do you pray?" Today the fear is not so much you relationship with God, but with the "organised religion". and in this case the fear that inside a co-ed school organised religion gets trumped by basic instincts of young girls. Whereas the entire campaign of name calling, boycott, and now citizenship is the cause for "apostasy". This was a speech by this guy in Jan 2023. I wonder what his thrust was yesterday.

The same article said.. "In August 2021, the Jamiat advocated setting up separate schools and colleges for women and girls and said non-Muslims should also refrain from opting for the co-education system for their daughters to "keep them away from immorality and misbehaviour".
 
At Sunday's meeting, an appeal was also made to all secular-minded people to unite and fight against the extremist and fascist forces at the political and social levels, instead of reacting emotionally. It called on people to make every effort to spread brotherhood, harmony, mutual tolerance, and justice in the country.

अन्ना हजारे के करीबी ने बताई अन्ना आंदोलन की सच्चाई! The curious case of Anna Hazare  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57nGZNEhrAY24-9-23 
इस इंटरव्यू में वरिष्ठ पत्रकार राजू पारुलेकर ने 2011 से 2023 का सफर तय किया है। राजू पारुलेकर ने अन्ना आंदोलन में RSS की भागीदारी का खुलासा किया है और साथ ही पूरे इंटरव्यू में मौजूदा राजनीति, INDIA का भविष्य और साथ ही राहुल गांधी पर चर्चा की गई है।

Dialogue: Kejriwal’s Ambition, Anna’s Betrayal https://hwnews.in/dialogue/dialogue-kejriwals-ambition-annas-betrayal/ by Sujit Nair July 1, 2023

Anna Hazare made demi-god by his team, says ex-blogger https://www.indiatoday.in/india/north/story/anna-hazare-demi-god-by-his-team-former-blogger-145545-2011-11-11
 Nov 12, 2011  the Gandhian's former blogger Raju Parulekar alleged that Team Anna members Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi, Prashant Bhushan and Manish Sisodia had "free reigns" and had free run in media by becoming "experts" on various subjects which gave them also the "stature of being virtuous and demi-gods". He sought answers from Hazare as to who "pressurised" him not to show the door to Bhushan from the Core team for his controversial comments on plebiscite in Kashmir, saying who will understand the legal loopholes in the bill and whether he was aware of the financial transactions of Kejriwal and Sisodia and their "ambitions".

On the controversial letter by Hazare on restructuring Team Anna which was made public by him, Parulekar said Hazare has cast aspersions on his honesty and integrity but he felt that it was not the Gandhian's words but those of somebody else, "dangerous, wicked, self-centered and in real-sense enemy of the people of country called India." "I have shown Annaji's handwritten and signed letter for re-structuring ?Team Anna? to the trio. They were shaken but remained arrogant. Kejriwal said, ?we ?Team Anna? have decided in Kosambi that the ?team? will remain so hence the letter is insignificant.? He went on to claim that to re-structure ?Team Anna? will harm Janlokpal issue. Annaji wrote on a piece of paper, ?how come re-structuring and Janlokpal bill issue is contradictory?? Annaji?s reaction was all the more explosive," he said.