Joshimath: An Avoidable Disaster
Slope subsidence in Joshimath was a disaster waiting to happen. It is both criminal and tragic that it was allowed to happen.
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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.
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The “Hindu Rate of Growth”: Then and Now
There is a fundamental difference between the comparatively low growth-rate of the earlier dirigiste period (pre-1990s) and that of the current neoliberal period.
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Will the Government Heed This Book That Makes a Strong Case for Justice to Victimised Maruti Workers
Book Review: ‘Japanese Management, Indian Resistance—The Struggles of Maruti Suzuki Workers.’ This book by Anjali Deshpande and Nandita Haksar must be read by anyone interested in the welfare of industrial workers in India, and also all Japanese people involved with human rights.
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Paulo Freire: Education, Schooling and Social Change
The work of Brazilian philosopher-educator Paulo Freire continues to have great relevance in the world today.
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Twelve Years Ago NATO Bombed Libya to “Protect Civilians”, Leaving Tens of Thousands Dead and a Country in Ruins
Gaddafi’s projects would have liberated the continent from the dominance of Western centres of power and monopoly, transforming global economic structures and inspiring other regions in the Global South to “unite, organize and fight”. And so NATO intervened, to overthrow Gaddafi.
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A Dozen Years after Fukushima, Nuclear Power Is Still a Death Wish
On the 12th commemoration of Fukushima, one must wonder about the human species. Continuing to operate these dangerously deteriorated machines of mass murder while suppressing renewables is the 21st century definition of suicidal insanity.
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Greece: Privatisation and Safety Cuts Kill, But Also Spark Resistance
There was a General Strike in Greece on March 16 for rail safety. An activist in Athens explains why.
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Sovereign Africa?
The African continent’s refusal to toe the Western line on the New Cold War – its calls for peace negotiations in Ukraine, its reconfiguration of international partners – suggests that a different world order is possible: one in which Africa is no longer beholden to the ‘united West’.
