Capitalism | Economy | India | Online Blog
Rupee’s Free Fall and RBI’s Silence
The central bank once spent billions defending the rupee. Now it watches it fall, saving ammunition for when Trump’s real assault begins.
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Capitalism | Education | India | Online Blog
A Brief History of India’s Education System, Part 4D: Higher Education During the Modi Years
The eigth part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the impact of the Modi Government’s NEP-2020 on India’s higher education system.
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Agriculture | Education | Employment | Human Rights | India | Indian Economy | Labour | Online Blog
Faux Welfare
India has replaced genuine welfare—education, health, justice, and environmental care—with short-term handouts that buy loyalty but stunt progress.
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Beyond the Farm Laws: Corporate Cloud Poised to Reign Over India’s Fields – 2 Articles
Nearly four years after India’s historic year-long farmers’ protests forced the repeal of three pro-corporate farm laws, it is clear that the government’s underlying agenda of corporatisation (recolonisation) is being advanced through bureaucratic schemes, digital agriculture partnerships and policy frameworks in the name of promoting ‘efficiency’ and ‘modernisation’.
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Capitalism | India | Inflation | Online Blog | Poverty | Unemployment
Micro Finance Companies Crushing the Poor – 2 Articles
‘Micro Loans are Driving an Already Forsaken Population Further Into Distress’: Despite the fact that the poor today are cash starved and are desperate for loans to make their ends meet, our credit apparatus and banking system seem to have forsaken them. Also: ‘Debts to Death: How Microfinance Companies are Crushing the Poor in Bihar’.
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Muslims Never Held Akbar in High Regard. Hindus Made Him ‘Great’
Akbar practiced what he preached. His appreciation of Hinduism and other non-Islamic religions was evident as much in his statesmanship as in his personal belief and behaviour. Also, extract from: ‘Why Akbar’s Legacy Matters’.
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Dear Didi, It’s Not Night That Endangers Women; How Women Pay the Price of Honour – 2 Articles
‘Dear Didi, It’s Not Night That Endangers Women’: Most women are assaulted within their homes by people they know, so why curse the darkness? Also: ‘Izzat has No Daughters: How Women Pay the Price of Honour’: Izzat in its truest form is not a weapon but compassion.
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Fascism | India | Online Blog
Francesca Orsini, Renowned Hindi Scholar, Deported from Delhi – 3 Articles
‘Stopping Francesca Orsini from Entering India is an Insult to the Very Concept and Culture of Knowledge’. Also: ‘How Hindi Scholar Francesca Orsini’s Work Illuminates India’s Language Politics – Past and Present’; and: ‘What does Francesca Orsini’s Scholarly Work Say? Five Former Students Explain What They Have Learnt’.
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Fascism | India | Online Blog
‘Journalism, The Way it’s Practiced Today, I Don’t Recognise it’: A Chronicle of 40 Years of Conflict
A conversation with Harinder Baweja, one of India’s most widely respected journalists. In this conversation, she reflects on the fading ethos of fearless journalism, and how politics, ideology and apathy have together imperilled India’s secular promise.
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What Should We Really Learn About – and from – Partition?
What is to be regretted is not just Partition but the long-term British colonial policies which led to a situation where a people who had lived together for centuries got divided politically on the basis of their religion.
