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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Sudan’s war is not an anomaly but a concentrated expression of a global system that depends on unequal exchange, violent extraction, and moral distance. Armed violence, mass displacement, famine, and systemic exploitation are sustained not only by domestic actors but by regional and international powers that profit from instability.
“I look around at what’s happening in our country and worry that we may already be on a superhighway to the sort of class- and race-stratified autocracy that it took Russia so many years to become after the Soviet Union collapsed”, writes the author.
There are, in effect, two Africas. One is the version that dominates global headlines: a continent defined by poverty, disease, and conflict. The other is the Africa I came to know firsthand—a dynamic, hardworking society of men and women striving for a better future.
There is a yawning gap between their visions and independent India’s woeful track record in educating its citizens.
This essay examines the Social Character of Labour through a set of economic concepts and applies them to a contemporary example: Generative AI.
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