Leading With a Shaken Voice
Is there a political formation that can put forward a different model of economic growth, which does not depend on a handful of big business houses?
Junaid, Junaid and a Country That Looks Away
For so many young Indian Muslims today, social media feeds have begun looking like a visitors’ diary outside a busy graveyard.
Unmasking India’s Crony Capitalist Oligarchy
The recent allegations of accounting fraud and stock manipulation against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani made by Hindenburg Research has startled many in the financial world. The episode is a necessary reality check for those who are expecting India’s star to burn bright in the global economic firmament.
Modi Claims 2004 to 2014 Was India’s ‘Lost Decade’. Is That True?; Also: Rising Suicides Among Poor
The number of poor fell sharply during this earlier period, and has risen in recent years. Also: “Daily Wage Earners, Housewives Among Largest Categories of People to Die by Suicide in 2019-21.”
India Budget 2023: Green Only in Name?
India’s Finance Minister mentioned the word ‘green’ about two dozen times in her 2023 Budget speech. But does this signify a significant shift towards orienting the economy towards ecological sensitivity? Or is it greenwashing of the kind this government has become increasingly adept at.
‘Institutional Murder’: IIT-Bombay Dalit Student Victim of Anti-Reservationist Bias
National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM), Gujarat, in a statement, has called the recent suicide of Darshan Solanki, a Dalit student of IIT, Bombay, as another “institutional murder” resulting from “crass caste discrimination” prevailing in India’s elite educational institutes.
Amrit Udyan Controversy: BJP’s Renaming Sprees Will Leave India with Crippling Amnesia
Changing the name of Mughal Gardens reflects the unwarranted inferiority complex of the present-day moguls and their parochial chauvinism.
Raisi in Beijing: Iran-China Strategic Plans Go Full Throttle
Raisi’s visit to Beijing, the first for an Iranian president in 20 years, represents Tehran’s wholesale ‘Pivot to the East’ and China’s recognition of Iran’s centrality to its BRI plans.
72 Mass Shootings in 46 Days in the United States: What are the Causes?
Violence on this scale has to be treated as a social and not an individual phenomenon. The society has itself become toxic and hazardous.
Latin America Can Lead the Way on a New Public Health Model
The pandemic demonstrated that the current global public health system is failing the Global South. We need a new one.