M.T. Vasudevan Nair (1933-2024): Kerala’s Literary Lodestar
For six decades, “MT” created characters and crises that became part of the psyche of the average Malayali reader and Kerala’s literary cognoscenti.
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Our Nation, Our Constitution: A Layperson’s Understanding
The Song of India is its Constitution. Its melody is Democracy. The lyrics of the song are about Justice, Liberty, and Equality for all its diverse people. Fraternity among all the people of this proud nation provides the harmony.
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The Extraordinary Legacy of the INA
‘I think it is doubly important that we continue to pay tribute to the INA, and also to hold high the banners that Azad Hind Fauj had raised, the banners of national dignity, unity, communal brotherhood, and also secularism,’ says the eminent historian.
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The Constitutional Conception of Socialism: A Vision Beyond Welfare State
The observation of the Supreme Court that ‘socialism’ in the context of the Indian Constitution is nothing more than the “State’s commitment to be a welfare state” is entirely untenable. The concept has rich contents to be derived from operative provisions in Parts III and IV of the Constitution.
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Deaths, Destruction on the Rise Due to Extreme Weather Events: Grim Statistics in India Climate Report 2024
Per the Report, India witnessed extreme weather events on 255 of the 274 days of the first nine months of 2024, and these killed more than 3,200 people.
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Union Budgets 2014 to 2024 – Article 5: The Declining Budget Outlay
The Indian economy is in deep crisis. Therefore, for the economy to have a sustained recovery, it is important that the government greatly increases its expenditure. In this article, we analyse the Modi Government’s budget outlays of the past 10 years.
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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.
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Agriculture in the Age of Inequality
The corporate hijack of agriculture, achieved by predatory commercialisation of the countryside, is India’s actual agrarian crisis.
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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.
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Savitri And Fatima: United Forever
Recently, a well-known journalist, Dileep Mandal, who has been appointed to the post of Consultant by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, has advanced the preposterous claim that Fatima Shaikh, whose name is inextricably linked with that of the iconic Savitri Bai Phule, is a figment of his own imagination.
