Need to safeguard the rights of India's home-based workers; Coal shortage hits Indian power plants; The story of the Indian bardo; and more

[View this email in your browser]( Top Story [The More Piyush Goyal Shakes up the Railway Ministry, the More Things Stay the Same]( Subir Roy [Goyal has virtually disbanded the administrative configuration that Suresh Prabhu had created to deliver on new areas and areas of emphasis. This is a bit strange as both the ministers know what needs doing foremost is focusing on safety, track renewal and simply speeding up the pace of doing things. The unmistakable impression is that one set of senior railway officials had Prabhu's ear and another now have Goyal's ear. A reconfiguration of the administrative setup implies one set of officials will be happy as they will see themselves being put in place for high profile work and another set of officials who were in key positions earlier will see themselves as being shunted out.]( [Need for a National Policy to Safeguard the Rights of India's Home-Based Workers]( Firoza Mehrotra [The government must address the issues of occupational safety and health being faced by the over 37.4 million home-based workers in the country.]( [Fact Check: Is India's Declining Cash to GDP Ratio an Indicator of Progress?]( James Wilson [The government's attempts to reduce the CIC-GDP ratio by merely reducing currency in circulation without the necessary structural reforms are likely to have deleterious consequences.]( [The Story of the Indian Bardo behind George Saunders' Booker Winning 'Lincoln in the Bardo']( Devdan Chaudhuri [Saunders' experimental novel winning the prize opens up many new possibilities. Now, Indian Anglophone authors might finally think of adapting concepts from the vast philosophical traditions of the East.]( [The India Outside Delhi That is Quietly Defending the Values of the Constitution]( Prashant Reddy T [Ordinary and extraordinary Indians, from the villagers of Tamil Nadu to the Anand Margis to Deepika Padukone, are defending their right to free speech and expression.]( [As Coal Shortage Hits Indian Power Plants, Ministry Starts Micromanaging Allocation]( Noor Mohammad [Amid an emerging crisis triggered by a fall in hydel and nuclear power generation, the coal ministry is continuing to discourage imports in an effort to defend its narrative of surplus coal availability.]( ['This Blindness Is a Constant Reminder of the Brutality We have Faced']( Mudasir Ahmad [Pellet guns have become the first line of attack for security forces against protesters in Kashmir, its unabated use blinding hundreds in the Valley.]( [Blade Runner 2049 is Required Viewing for India's Foreign Policy Planners]( Arun Mohan Sukumar [The film is a subtle reminder to India and other "recipients" of technology that its uses are determined as much by Hollywood as they are by Silicon Valley.]( 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](