Capitalism | Online Blog | USA
Epstein Files Reveal Criminality of American Oligarchy
The American ruling class is wallowing in political, social, legal, and moral degradation. The Epstein scandal holds up a mirror to itself.
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Gandhi’s Enduring Legacy: Truth, Non-Violence, and Sangh Hypocrisy – 3 Articles
‘The Eternal Gandhi’: Amidst a Bid to Tarnish His Legacy, the Mahatma Endures. Also: ‘Now Is a Good Time to Be Concerned About the Truth and Non-Violence’; and ‘Decoding the RSS Hypocrisy of Respecting Gandhi’.
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Capitalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
When Courts Echo Majoritarianism, and Citizens Carry the Idea of India – 2 Articles
‘India’s Courts Are Echoing the Intolerance of its Ruling Party, its Affiliates, and State They Are Remaking in Their Image’: India’s criminal-justice system is inverting the presumption of innocence and Constitutional principles to align with the majoritarian ideology of the ruling BJP. Also: ‘Mohammad Deepak Kumar, Shaila Negi, and the Idea of India’.
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What Has Changed in the Constitution, and Why: Senior Advocate Dushyant Dave Explains
The lecture examines the erosion of constitutional morality, the weakening of parliamentary democracy and the growing centralisation of power in India’s political system.
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Capitalism | Economy | India | Online Blog
Budget 2026–27: Corporate Sops, Higher Individual Taxes, Weak Welfare, and Neglected Social Sectors – 5 Articles
‘India’s Budget 2026-2027 Overlooks Poor and Jobless, Instead Has Sops for Private Sector’; ‘Union Budget 2026-27: A Road to Nowhere’; ‘Union Government Is Still Taxing Individuals More Than Corporations’; ‘Budget 2026-27: Four Key Ministries That Shape Jobs, Health and Education in India’; ‘Budget 2026-27: If India Borrows More to Spend, Why Does it Deliver Less Welfare?’.
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Agriculture | Capitalism | Imperialism | India | Online Blog | USA
Indo-US Trade Deal Will Hurt Indian Agriculture – 4 Articles
‘What’s at Stake for Indian Agriculture in Trump’s Trade Deal?’; ‘US Trade Deal Will Destroy Farmers by Flooding India with American Farm Produce: SKM’; ‘India to Eliminate Tariffs on Industrial and “Vast Array” of Agricultural Goods: Jamieson Greer’; ‘Perils of Opening India’s Agricultural Market to United States Business’.
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On the SC Stay of UGC Equity Rules – 4 Articles
‘UGC Equity Rules: SC Stay Triggers Nationwide Student Outrage’; ‘Refusal to See Caste Discrimination, Not ‘False Complaints’, Is the Real Crisis on Campus’; ‘Language of Balance Recourse of the Powerful: Satish Deshpande on Opposition to UGC Equity Rules’; ‘What Is ‘Reverse Discrimination’ and Why Is It Being Brought Up for the UGC’s 2026 Rules?’.
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India’s Surveillance State Should Alarm Every Democracy
India is becoming one of the world’s most aggressive testing grounds for state digital surveillance systems. Over the past decade, the Indian State has quietly assembled a parallel digital security architecture that allows authorities to intercept, analyze and store communications data at an enormous scale.
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Capitalism | Economy | India | Online Blog | Unemployment
The Retreating State and India’s Precarious Gig Economy – 3 Articles
The State Is Withdrawing from Protecting Unorganised Workers’; ‘“The Doorbell Is Not the Problem”: Why Government Regulation Is Necessary for the Gig Work Sector’; ‘What the State and Start-Up Ecosystem’s Celebration of India’s Gig Economy Tells Us About the Precarious Future of Work’.
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Development That Kills: The Political Economy of Workplace Deaths
Today, workplaces are truly turning into killing fields. As long as development means profit and workers are treated as fuel, these killing fields will continue to operate.
