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G.G. Parekh, Neeraj Jain The ruling Modi–Shah duo led BJP government’s attempts to make alternations in the Indian Constitution have sparked off protests across the country, protests which are unique in the sense that it is the first time since Independence that people are coming out on the streets to defend the Constitution. In…
The budget for 2020 is due. We have argued in articles published in Janata that imposition of a progressive wealth tax ranging from 2% on India’s dollar millionaires to 5% on India’s dollar billionaires would yield at least Rs 8 lakh crore in additional income for the government. Additionally, imposition of a modest…
Michael Lebowitz interviewed by editors of Hak Mücadeleleri HM: Let’s start with your ideas about rethinking Marx, capital’s logic, and the logic of the working class? And how we can relate these subjects with today’s social movements? ML: For some time, I have argued that Marx did not develop theoretically the side of…
Neeraj Jain Soon after Modi-led BJP won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the government felt emboldened to release the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data, that it had suppressed. The data show that absolute employment in the country has actually fallen during the years of Modi’s prime ministership – the first time it has…
Ratheesh Pisharody The year 2020, brings with it many challenges for both the planet as well as the “Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic of India”. When we celebrate India’s “Republic Day” this year on the 26th of January, there should be an attempt do more than just take a day off from work and…
Samar Bagchi On 26th November 2019 Agence France-Presse reported from Paris that the scientists of United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) have predicted that if the global temperature rise has to be restricted to 1.5°C then the global emission of CO2 has to be reduced by 76% by 2030. Acknowledging the imminent ecological crisis endangering the…
Jean Drèze The future of Indian democracy depends a great deal on a revival of Dr. Ambedkar’s visionary conception of democracy. This vision also needs to be enlarged and updated in the light of recent experience. Revolutionary Democracy Dr. Ambedkar’s vision of democracy was closely related to his ideal of a “good society”. He…
Anil Nauriya (This essay was written in 2015, as a review of Nayantara Sahgal’s book, “Nehru’s India: Essays on the Maker of a Nation”. We are publishing an edited version of this essay, because it has become even more relevant today.) If one scans the political landscape of India in the 20th century for…
Irfan Habib (This is a abridged version of a lecture by Prof. Irfan Habib, delivered on December 28, 1994, organised by SAHMAT. It is as relevant today as it was then.) I deem it an honour indeed that I should be asked to speak on Mahatma Gandhi and the National Movement. It is a very…
Debasish Bhattacharjee Recently, much awaited migration data has been released by Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. While demographers are presumably busy analysing the data, certain preliminary observations are noteworthy, especially in the context of Assam where strong allegation of large-scale illegal migration from Bangladesh has assumed greater significance post NRC….
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