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.
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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.
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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.
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In the Amul-ing of Nandini, the Devil Is in the Chronology
The co-operative federalism promised by the Modi government has turned into coercive federalism. A look at events since 2019 unravels the real story behind Amul’s expansion to other territories and the penetration of private corporate capital through it.
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What Is the Rs 20,000 Crore Figure Rahul Gandhi Spoke of in Adani’s ‘Shell Companies’?
A Financial Times report claimed “offshore companies linked to the Adanis” invested at least $2.6 billion in the group between 2017 and 2022. Also: The way Rahul Gandhi has been hounded over the last month shows that the BJP is unnerved. However, Gandhi has refused to buckle under pressure.
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India: Mother of Democracy or Child of Plutocracy?
What has been at play since 2014 as part of government policy is the promotion of a select coterie of businessmen for whom cronyism and not innovation is the key to success.
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Is the Government Deliberately or Otherwise Helping the Promoters of the Vedanta Group?
Letter to FM regarding a series of instances of regulatory forbearance extended by the government to the Vedanta Group. The writer says that these suggest an effort by the government to force the tax-payer to bear Vedanta’s debt burden to allow it to pursue its expansion programme.
