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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The author critically traces the 25-year journey of the public sector firm Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), and seeks to bring out how a real possibility and promise of indigenous development under the public sector was lost.
This article investigates three decades of the telecom miracle and asks a larger question: What do we learn regarding the nature of big capital from the extraordinary success of the telecom industry in India?
According to the currently dominant ideology, the private sector is more competent, efficient, and technologically capable than the public sector, and thus public-private partnerships save public money. An examination of these claims, through the case study of the Delhi Airport Metro.
Cairn Energy, a UK-based corporation, has filed a suit in New York to claim the international assets of Air India. A discussion of the larger issues involved, such as the relationship between big capital, especially international capital, and the State; and also the nature of the corporation itself.
A brief analysis of the Amazon revelations, in the context of the long debate on e-commerce in India, followed by a discussion on why it is so important to link it with the on-going policy debates and protests across the country.
In these Covid times, when online teaching has become rampant, we are being told that this development opens up new possibilities and realms for education. A critical examination of it, against our basic conception of education.
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