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Burnt out or jobless - meet China's 'full-time children'   https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-66172192  Gruelling work hours and a dismal job market are forcing young Chinese to make unusual choices.

The burnout driving working adults to become "full-time children" is not entirely surprising given China's notoriously poor work-life balance - work culture in the country is often referred to as the so-called "996" - where people consider it a norm to work 9am to 9pm, six days a week.

Poor no longer? Dimensions of poverty in India https://www.livemint.com/news/india/multidimensional-poverty-in-india-niti-aayog-s-findings-show-progress-but-pandemic-s-impact-not-reflected-in-data-11689703547861.html Tanay Sukumar 2 min read 18 Jul 2023, Around 135 million Indians exited ‘multidimensional poverty’, a measure of deprivation beyond money, between 2015-16 and 2019-21, the Niti Aayog says. The basis of calculation is the National Family Health Survey (NFHS). 

Doesn’t this show resilience during the pandemic?
Not really. The national MPI, as well as the global MPI for India, used data from the NFHS, which last took place between June 2019 and April 2021. Fieldwork was already complete in 22 of the 36 states and Union territories, including some of the most populated states, by February 2020. So the MPI doesn’t reflect any possible post-pandemic shifts.
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12.6 करोड़ की नौकरी गई, तो 13.5 करोड़ लोग गरीबी से ऊपर कैसे उठे? https://www.viplavikisansandesh.page/2023/07/126-135.html जुलाई 18, 2023 •

India's Niti Aayog is claiming that the number of poor in rural areas of the country has decreased from 32.59 percent to 19.28 percent and the number of poor in urban areas has decreased from 8.65 percent to 5.27 percent during that period, during which the country's economy was further reduced to minus growth and then the large population was suffering from hunger, deprivation, lockdown, unemployment, and death in the Kovid epidemic. According to Mahesh Vyas, CEO of the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy, 1 crore people lost their jobs in the second wave of Kovid. Whereas in the first wave 12.6 crore people had lost their jobs in 2020 itself. Of these, 9 crore were daily wage workers.

According to the business podcast of 6 May 21, by April 2021, the poorest 20 percent of the country's families had lost their entire income. While India's richest families saw their own income drop by less than 25 percent in the same period. A research by Azim Premji University suggests that the first wave of Covid pushed 230 million new people into poverty. It was found in this research that in the first period of Kovid, there was an increase of 15 percent in the village and 20 percent in the city in the number of poor. In such a situation, this juggling of fake figures released by the Niti Aayog of the Modi government completely exposes the Modi government and its Niti Aayog.

How the Dravidian Model of Development Succeeded in Tamil Nadu https://thewire.in/books/how-the-dravidian-model-of-development-succeeded-in-tamil-nadu

In prioritising the counter hegemonic articulations of the plebes against the exploitative Brahminical social order, Dravidianism evolved a new common sense of equity as the bedrock of popular, electoral democracy.

review of A. Kalaiyarasan and M. Vijayabaskar’s The Dravidian Model: Interpreting Political Economy of Tamil Nadu, 

the sub-national variant in the developmental path produced in Tamil Nadu is the product of Dravidian political ideology. As we have seen, this variant mitigates the trend to rising inequality seen all over the world and ensures effective redistribution through state measures.

If this process is to be translated into the paradigm of capitalist transition that Piketty uses, it is possible to say that the Dravidian movement intervened in the transition of a society dominated by clergy and nobility to that of an ownership society resulting in the hegemony of the propertied class which once again accentuates inequality after a brief hiatus of reduction in inequality with the advent of democracy or social democracy.

In prioritising the counter hegemonic articulations of the plebes against the exploitative Brahminical social order – the disenfranchised sections of the ternary society in Piketty’s terms – for a fair share in economic growth and governance, Dravidianism evolved a new common sense of equity as the bedrock of popular, electoral democracy.