How Adani Will Become India’s Largest Private Airport Operator
The Adani group, led by the country’s second-richest man, Gautam Adani––whose proximity to PM Modi is common knowledge––is all set to become the largest private operator of airports.
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Indian Government vs International Capital: The Vodafone Case – Two Articles
Though the Indian state pretends to be very powerful when it comes to hapless citizens and acts most arbitrarily against them, it has little leverage against international capital. And yet the Indian government is handing over control of almost all the strategic sectors to international capital.
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Steamrolling Farm Bill, Labour Bill and Other Legislations: Denigration of Parliament, Office Of Presiding Officer and Federal Structure
The unseemly haste through which the three Farm Bills and same numbers of labour bills were passed has fateful implications for parliamentary democracy and federalism.
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Voices of Dissent Course Through the Country on September 23
Thousands of people came together to decry anti-labour, anti-farmer and anti-people laws passed by the Centre in recent days.
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New Wings for Socialism
What was missing in the old efforts to build a new socialist society was forgetting that along with building new material foundations, it is necessary to build new human beings; those early attempts tried to fly with things that only looked like wings.
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The Scientist as Rebel in the Indian Cultural Milieu
The dynastic blood relation as a prop for personal advancement is a fundamental theme of our cultural ethos, and it stifles original research and thinking in India.
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Arundhati Roy: Rebel With a Cause
In a world of conformists and cowards, Roy’s courage inspires and kindles hope.
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Bhopal: A Toxic Tragedy Continues
Thirty-six years after the horrific gas leak, Union Carbide’s defunct pesticide plant continues to contaminate soil and groundwater.
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Reading about Mussolini’s Italy in Modi’s India
There are uncanny parallels between the Italy of the 1920s and the India of the 2020s.
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A Hindu Papacy?
In India, we appear to have succumbed to some ultramontane form of Hinduism, though in this setting, the Prime Minister is the figurative Pope.
