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Universal Basic Income: Making Omelette Without Breaking Egg? Prabhat Patnaik | 05 Aug 2023 (https://www.newsclick.in/universal-basic-income-cooking-omelette-without-breaking-egg

 noted economist Prabhat Patnaik: If UBI is interpreted merely as a set of cash transfers, whether uniform or graded across individuals, then it does not necessarily achieve a real UBI, which is the objective behind instituting it.

a right to UBI, in real terms, cannot possibly mean anything other than a set of specific constituent individual rights, such as a right to health, a right to education, and such other rights.

 instituting they five universal rights . the right to food, the right to employment, the right to free quality healthcare through a National Health Service, the right to free quality education and the right to a universaold-age pension and disability benefits, would cost, in addition to what is already spent from the budget on these items, an additional 10% of GDP. ..To raise the government should be willing to tax the rich. This is virtually beyond the capacity of the bourgeois system, and hence beyond the conception of liberal economists.

Mumbai Citizens Condemn Train Firing, Haryana Communal Clashes; Accuse RSS & BJP Of Spreading Hatred https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/mumbai-citizens-condemn-train-firing-haryana-communal-clashes-accuse-rss-bjp-of-spreading-hatred The speakers at the press conference condemn ruling parties for instigating riots and disrupting the peace and harmony in the country. FPJ News ServiceUpdated: Thursday, August 03, 202

Speakers said that it was "RSS, BJP and Godi media'' that were to be blamed for the spread of hatred and the rioting.

Maulana Mehmood Dariyabadi lamented the fact that hatred had seeped into the younger generation and sought a government to stop it for peace and harmony of the nation

Maulana Ruhe Zafar "Had the person Manesar been punished for his earlier crime, the problem would not have been this bad. It is the job of the Prime Minister and other ministers to keep people safe. 

Swami Ved Atmavesh said that it was shameful that top leaders including the President were not making any statements. "Even the opposition has no dam (punch). The government should focus on giving roti, kapda makaan to people instead of doing this,

A Salute to Achyut Yagnik, the One-Man Storehouse of Knowledge on Gujarat https://thewire.in/society/a-salute-to-achyut-yagnik-the-one-man-storehouse-of-knowledge-on-gujarat

He was always “Achyut Bhai”, always available for a spot of conversation, or a dialogue if you preferred, or a declamation if you had the discipline of patience. Either way, it was always a rewarding encounter.

(SETU – Centre for Social Knowledge and Action) resembled an ashram in its bare austerity but suggested the ambience of a coffee house, where over many cups of syrupy tea – and the smoke of his never-extinguished cigarette – the visiting interlocutor could get tutored into the nuances of the latest developments, be it the Navnirman Movement, the anti-reservations riots of 1981, the 1985-86 communal flare-up, the anti-Narmada dam movement, the 1990-92 Ayodhya violence, or the horrible, horrible 2002 carnage.

Achyut Bhai himself personified the very idea of a robust civil society – keeping a firm distance from the wielders of power in Gandhinagar yet willing to engage with “authority” on behalf of the poor and the underprivileged. He was available to any NGO, any movement, any group wanting to correct this or that economic injustice in any part of Gujarat