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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.
Marx’s concept of alienation is a crucial idea that bridges his early philosophical work with his mature critique of political economy. The development of this concept emerged, for Marx, as a necessary way to think about the limitations of purely political and religious movements for freedom.
‘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?’.
‘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?’.
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’.
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.
The country’s wavering stance on data exclusivity, which will allow corporations to hold a monopoly on drugs, risks global access to lifesaving medical care.
‘Top 1% Own 43.8%: Oxfam’s Is the Latest of Global Reports That Link Inequality to Political Power Asymmetry’: Rise in authoritarianism globally, the Oxfam report notes, is tied directly to deepening income inequality. As the rich are getting richer, they’re also getting more politically powerful. Also: ‘“Tax Us. Tax the Super Rich,” Say Nearly 400 Millionaires and Billionaires’.
Khaleda Zia’s death makes way for political realignment. Whether this will help break Bangladesh’s cycle of retributive violence is an open question.
‘The Empire Comes Home’; ‘The Murderers Among Us’; ‘Undeterred by Freezing Temps, Statewide Minnesota Strikes Demand “ICE Out Now”’; ‘In the Twin Cities, A Massive Strike Against ICE’; ‘From Maine to Minnesota and Beyond, Tens of Thousands March to Demand “ICE Out!”’; ‘Students Join Nationwide Strike to Abolish ICE’; ‘Trump’s Tactical Retreat in Minneapolis: The Danger of Dictatorship Remains’.
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