Dadabhai Naoroji’s 200th Birth Anniversary: How Early Nationalists Thought About Mass Education
There is a yawning gap between their visions and independent India’s woeful track record in educating its citizens.
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The Social Character of Labour: Exploring the Private Accumulation of the Social Intellect
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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Communalism | Culture | Fascism | India | Online Blog
Two Songs, Two Visions: TM Krishna on Why India Chose ‘Jana Gana Mana’ Over ‘Vande Mataram’
The Carnatic vocalist and public intellectual argues that India must defend its founding symbols and also reimagine their meaning for a changing time.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | India | Online Blog | USA
From Swaraj to Subordination: The New India–US Trade Regime – 6 Articles
‘India-US Trade Deal: Five Takeaways from the White House Statements’; ‘Minister Piyush Goyal’s Notes Mentioned “India’s Calibrated Opening of Agriculture”’; ‘The US-India Trade Deal is Unbalanced and Potentially Devastating’; ‘US-India Trade Deal: A Colonial Era-Like Unequal Treaty’; ‘Modi’s Skewed Trade Deal with Trump Demolishes the Idea of Swaraj Envisioned by Dadabhai Naoroji and Gandhi’; ‘Is the Corporate Conquest of Indian Agriculture Complete?’.
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Capitalism | Economy | Indian Economy | Inflation | Online Blog | Poverty | Privatization | Unemployment
Democracy Damned by Doctored Data
When growth numbers flatter power, hide job scarcity, and mute rising costs, bad data stops disciplining policy and democracy pays a hefty price, writes the famed economist professor.
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Incinerating Labour: Courts, Capital, and the Shrinking Space for Workers’ Rights
‘The Supreme Court’s Remarks on Trade Unions Are Not in Conformity with the Constitution’; ‘Domestic Workers, Women’s Labour, and the Language of the Courts’; ‘Incinerated in the Name of Growth: The Price of India’s War on Trade Unions’.
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Chronicle of a Disaster Foretold: The Privatisation of Mumbai’s Bus Services
Mumbai’s public bus transport, the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST), once considered a model for bus services in the country, is now in complete shambles. Yet this situation was foreseen and was publicly warned against more than seven years ago, when the authorities took the fatal decision to privatise BEST’s core operations.
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The Hollowing Out of Our Universities – 4 Articles
‘“Indianisation” of Syllabi is Hollowing Out Knowledge in Our Universities’; ‘Gagged Campuses, Hollowed Classrooms: The Universities in India Today’; ‘Cash Crunch, Research Void and Guest Faculty Surge: The Collapse of Social Sciences in India’; ‘The Cost of Learning: Protests Mount Across Universities as Fee Hikes Deepen Crisis of Accessibility’.
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Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
Aggressive Majoritarianism Crippled Pakistan. Will India Fare Differently?
The merging of faith with State has not worked out well anywhere.
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Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
Secularism is a Stick with Which to Beat Multiculturalists
The philosopher argues that in modern liberal states, secularism has become a cudgel used by elites to oppose multicultural accommodations for religious minorities.
