Government as job contractor

The govt's plan to send Indians abroad as labourers is seen as a practical acknowledgment of the constraints in the domestic economy. However, the larger issue here is an ethical one

After the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7, 2023, the number of tourists to Israel fell precipitately to about 39,000 in November from a monthly average of over 300,000. This is notable only because Israel has been unusually war-proof as a foreign tourist destination. Every year, a range of overseas airlines delivered thousands of visitors to the historic sites of the three Abrahamic religions despite the constant background riff of mutual terrorism and violent displacement. If flights have been cancelled now, things must be pretty bad. So it says something about the state of India’s northern heartland that