The Super-Rich Have Taken it All Away from Others
Liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation have left us with an internal colonisation.
Death of a River: Fish Gone, Farmers Gone, and it Is the Turn of Residents Now
With illegal sand mining digging up the Yamuna, fishermen turn farmers only to be hit by mafia encroachment of the riverbanks. People fear they will be forced to relocate if mining continues undeterred.
Is What We have “Crony Capitalism”?
Fascistic elements move centre-stage only when they get the support of monopoly capital which provides them with ample money and media coverage. This happens when there is a capitalist crisis; the role of the fascistic elements in such a situation is to provide a diversion of discourse.
Joshimath Residents Return to Their “Unsafe” Homes, Four Months After the Sinking Crisis
Due to the decreasing facilities in the relief camps, people deprived of their food and all household facilities are returning to their disaster-hit homes.
New Forest Laws and ‘Development’ Push: A Prelude to a ‘Land Grab’ in India’s North-East?
The root of the violence in Manipur can be traced to measures that threaten the rights of tribal communities over land and resources.
Enabling Selective Illegality Behind the Façade of Democratic Functioning
The SC appointed Expert Committee on the Adani-Hindenburg issue hides behind a technicality to conclude that there was no regulatory failure. Behind the façade of democracy and functioning of the democratic institutions, illegality is being selectively allowed to consolidate the ruling party’s power – financial, social, and political.
The Telecom Industry in India: Free Market or Monopoly-Finance Capital?
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?
How Maruti Suzuki Tried to Turn Men into Machines at Manesar
On International Workers’ Day, an alternative account of how Maruti Suzuki’s small car revolution was not the unmitigated success it was touted to be – for the workers.
New India as Employer-Dreamland
The Central government says the multiplicity of labour laws is done away with by integrating them into ‘labour codes’. A look at the results.
The Odisha Government a Friend in Need of Adani, But in Whose Interest?
Some examples of the impact of the Odisha government’s benevolence and amity shown to the Adani Group at the cost of interest of general public of the state and people’s resistance to these pro-corporate actions of the state government.