Understanding starvation in Jharkhand; Tamil Nadu’s MGNREGA workers left in the lurch; how urban Gujarat is likely to vote; and more

[View this email in your browser]( Top Story [Paradise Papers Revive Cayman Link to Charge of Over-Invoicing by Essar Group]( Paranjoy Guha Thakurta [The country may have been surprised by the names of the various Indian individuals and companies who came tumbling out of the Paradise Papers last week but not the Narendra Modi government, which has been sitting on information about the offshore entities of at least one big corporate – the Essar group – for two and a half years without taking the “immediate appropriate action” it is now promising in the face of ongoing disclosures by the Indian Express.]( [One Death, Three Stories: Understanding Hunger and Starvation in Jharkhand]( Jessica Mayberry [Political and media responses to the death of an 11-year-old girl in Jharkhand highlighted how people are only moved to action by extreme examples, rather than a system that is perpetually broken.]( [Earth-Like Exoplanet Discovered Around Nearby Star Is Potentially Habitable]( Sandhya Ramesh [The star-planet system is zipping towards Earth. In about 79,000 years, they will replace Proxima Centauri and Proxima b as our closest star and closest potentially habitable exoplanet, respectively.]( [Adani’s Australia Story: A Crucial Ideological Battle Over the Politics of Coal and Jobs]( Kabir Agarwal [While support for the controversial mine exists in rural areas – where the narrative of jobs finds resonance – it is opposed in metropolitan centres where a more definitive acceptance of the threats from climate change defines attitudes.]( [Despite Widespread Discontent, Urban Gujarat Is Likely to Stand Behind BJP]( Kingshuk Nag [The note ban followed soon after by the new tax regime have hit the predominantly mercantile state hard, but the urban voters still cannot see themselves siding with the opposition.]( [Tamil Nadu’s MGNREGA Workers Left in the Lurch Due to Delayed Wages, Unused Funds]( Divya Karthikeyan [In 2016-17, pending payments under the employment scheme in the state amounted to a whopping Rs 5,571 crore.]( [How Thomas Chandy’s Reluctant Resignation Pits CPI Against CPI(M) in Kerala]( Rajeev Ramachandran [The raging debate of the widening gap between the two communist parties has cropped up once again with the recent developments in Thiruvananthapuram.]( [Despite Government Assurance, Rajasthan’s Protesting Farmers Arrested as Construction Begins on ‘Disputed’ Land]( Shruti Jain [The farmers had buried themselves in the land to protest against the acquisition of 1,350 bighas of land for a housing project without fair compensation.]( [Nehru – the Professor and the Revolutionary]( Swapna Kona Nayudu [The Comintern’s chosen name for Nehru was ‘The Professor’, an apt description given the breadth of his historical awareness.]( [The Sangh’s New Game Plan for Ayodhya]( Krishna Pratap Singh [Will the ‘Hindu’ rulers use their newfound status to display a spirit of generosity in working towards an agreement or demand nothing less than total submission from the other side?]( Copyright © 2017 The Wire, All rights reserved. You're getting this email because you recently subscribed to receive email digests from The Wire via our website. Our mailing address is: The Wire 13, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg Gole MarketNew Delhi 110001 India [Add us to your address book](//thewire.us11.list-manage.com/vcard?u=6b988b13445248b1268a308f2&id=4808224841) Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](