Across Shillong, Aizawl and Guwahati, gig work has become a quiet lifeline, improvised, unstable, and indispensable. As the Union government and states converge on a simplified GST architecture, dubbed the GST 2.0, two principal slabs (5% and 18%) with a 40% demerit rate for luxury and sin goods, the formal map is being redrawn. The […]
