All Editorials Snapshot & Free Vocabulary PDF – 09 Dec 2025
The Hindu Editorials snapshot
Editorial 1
Carceral Culture: On Prisons and Disability-Related Facilities
The Supreme Court directed disability support in prisons last week, prompted by cases like G.N. Saibaba and Stan Swamy who faced denied accommodations for serious conditions despite Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016 obligations, tying to constitutional rights of equality and dignified life; structural gaps persist as prisons are State subjects yet follow Union’s model manual lacking accessibility.
Colonial/postcolonial rules encode hierarchies assigning sanitation to over-represented Dalit/Adivasi prisoners, ignoring mobility/sanitary needs or mental illness (per NCRB), normalising discomfort as punishment while Court bans caste segregation and monitors caste/gender/disability discrimination, expanding Muruganantham (2025) nationwide.
States/Centre must amend manuals for clear duties, screening, support; confront carceral austerity prioritising security over rights via redesigned budgets, independent inspections, and disaggregated caste/disability data publication to avoid paper tigers.
Editorial 2
Prudent Action: On RBI Interest Rate Cuts
The Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee cut the key policy rate by 25 basis points to 5.25%—cumulative 125 bps reduction in 2025, echoing 2019’s 135 bps cuts amid slowing growth from 8.9% (Q1 2018) to 3.3% (Q4 2019)—despite accelerating GDP from 5.6% (Q2 2024) to 8.2% (Q2 2025), signaling doubts on growth robustness, excess corporate capacity, low deflator inflating figures, and debt-fueled investment potential.
Cheaper credit aids MSMEs/exporters amid U.S. 50% tariff impacts on supply chains, with inflation outlook benign at 2% versus 2019’s surge from 2% to 7.6%; neutral stance allows quick pivot if food/oil prices spike, balancing support for growth against reversal risks in uncertain global conditions.
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Editorial 3
Food Inflation Dips but That Isn’t Enough
Rabi crop sowing for wheat, mustard, chana, masoor, and maize has surged 10% over last year, driven by surplus monsoon rains replenishing reservoirs, aquifers, and soil moisture, compensating kharif losses, and boosted by higher MSP especially for wheat, with a 55% chance of weak La Niña promising colder winters and bright harvests.
High food inflation from mid-2023 eroded household spending until April 2025 dips into negative/low single digits, aiding RBI rate cuts from 6.50% to 5.25%, reviving sentiment alongside tax/GST reductions, while bumper rabi output in wheat/sugar averts price spikes.
Yet low inflation hurts farm incomes—GDP shows agriculture GVA at 3.7% (Apr-Jun) and 3.5% (Jul-Sep) constant prices but just 3.2% and 1.8% current prices, signaling deflation that discourages planting/investments; extreme volatility reflects absent reforms unlike other sectors.
Editorial 4
From Goa, a Message: On Fire Safety, Break Silence and Complicity
A nightclub fire in Goa’s Arpora village on Saturday killed 25 people in a preventable tragedy, as the venue lacked fire department NOC, permissions, and basic safety like proper exits, ventilation in the basement kitchen, and non-flammable materials—issues flagged repeatedly by the village panchayat, turning it into a tinderbox.
This fits a pattern of fire disasters from callousness: Jaipur hospital (6 deaths, October 2025), Delhi paediatric hospital and Rajkot gaming centre (multiple fatalities, June 2024), Mumbai Kamala Mills (2017), Delhi Karol Bagh hotel (2019), amid yawning gaps between National Building Code/state laws and enforcement in booming high-rises, malls, pubs in cities like Delhi, Mumbai, and tourist spots like Goa.
A four-member magisterial probe targets lapses, but a broader reckoning demands dismantling networks of silence/complicity enabling impunity in flouting safety across hospitals, hotels, residences for growth.
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