Union Budgets 2014 to 2024 – Article 6: The Real Reason Behind Increase in Capital Expenditure
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Union Budgets 2014 to 2024 – Article 6: The Real Reason Behind Increase in Capital Expenditure

Within the limited budget outlay, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced a hike in capital expenditure (or capex) — of 17.1 percent. This is the fourth year in succession that she has hiked capex. An increase in capex, without increasing budget outlay, is not going to lead to economic growth and employment generation. We discuss this in this article.

The Odd Behavior of the Rupee
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The Odd Behavior of the Rupee

The long-term structural weakness in India’s balance of payments cannot be the sole determinant of the rupee’s movements. This view is strengthened by the evidence that during the recent fall in the value of the rupee vis-à-vis the dollar, it has actually appreciated relative to the currencies of other trading partners.

Saffronisation of Delhi University: 2 Articles
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Saffronisation of Delhi University: 2 Articles

“In DU’s Daulat Ram College, Students Witness Saffronisation of a ‘Safe Place’”; and: “A Controversial ‘Book Launch’ and Delhi University’s Descent Into Party Propaganda”: It is certainly not the job of our our academic leaders to open the gates of universities to those in power and join them in trampling the garden of knowledge.

Protests Spiral, as Amendment to Planning Law Accelerates Goa’s Urban Sprawl & Devastates its Lush Commons
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Protests Spiral, as Amendment to Planning Law Accelerates Goa’s Urban Sprawl & Devastates its Lush Commons

A report on the battle to save environmental heritage and traditional livelihoods in India’s smallest state, where infrastructure for tourists and wealthy migrants is wrecking the beauty that brings them there.

Unpacking the Paradox: Islam, Social Justice, and the Quest for Equality
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Unpacking the Paradox: Islam, Social Justice, and the Quest for Equality

The Quran offers enduring principles of justice, freedom, and equality—principles designed to challenge oppression, dismantle systemic inequalities, and inspire collective upliftment. However, fully realizing these values demands a humanist and liberation theological lens—one that reads the Quran not just as a divine text but as a manifesto for social transformation.

Neofascism in the White House
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Neofascism in the White House

Not only a new administration, but a new ideology has now taken up residence at the White House: neofascism. It resembles in certain ways the classical fascism of Italy and Germany in the 1920s and ’30s, but with historically distinct features specific to the political economy and culture of the United States in the opening decades of the twenty-first century.