21 Indian Super-Rich Own More Wealth Than 70 Crore Indians Together!
While taxing the rich can help tackle shocking inequalities, what is really needed in India is complete overhaul of economic policies that serve only big corporates.
Calling the Constitution of India Present-Day Manusmriti Is an Unconscionable Vulgarisation
The Constitution is a radical and transformative document. At its heart lie the values of liberty, justice, equality and fraternity. The same cannot be said of the Manusmriti.
Muslim Women Counterpublics: Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will
Muslim women respond to political trauma by exercising their citizenship and care work beyond the family. Their activism is not driven by patriarchal indoctrination, but by a belief that one cannot lose hope in the possibility of justice.
Why the Government of Venezuela has Resisted While Many Leftist Presidents Could Not
Chávez faced—and Maduro has continued to face—all the strategies, tactics, maneuvers, games, and schemes that the U.S. empire and its satellites and lackeys have successfully used throughout the rest of the continent, among other ploys that have been used in other parts of the world.
World Bank Is No Friend of Working People or the Planet
Its policies facilitate the upward distribution of wealth, regardless of human and environmental cost.
We Want No Caesars
In 1937, Jawaharlal Nehru was elected president of the Congress for the third time. Cognisant and cautious of the dangers of his own pride and position, he wrote this essay, in which he stressed the importance of questioning the motives of leaders, and checking the power they hold.
While You Count Hours, They Count Billions
The richest 1% of the world now own nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world put together. These so-called ‘elite’ super-rich accumulated, or to be more precise, looted, nearly two-thirds of all new wealth worth $42 trillion created since 2020.
Marx, the ‘Metabolic Rift’ and Capitalism’s Assault on Nature
Marx’s theory that capitalism created a “metabolic rift” between human society and nature has re-emerged as an indispensable tool for understanding the climate crisis we face today.
Vision of Gandhi and Ambedkar Needs to be Salvaged to Save the Indian Republic
Mahatma Gandhi consistently maintained that India ought to be a Republic. Dr BR Ambedkar and Nehru carried forward the Republican sentiment, which is confronting an existential crisis today on account of majoritarianism, growing inequality and criminalising of dissent.
PM-Kisan: Who and How Many are Getting Income Support of Rs 6,000?
Surely, the Centre doesn’t know; had that not been the case, it wouldn’t be giving multiple sets of data, all of which contradict each other.