Geography Archives: India

THE mercantilists had defined a nation’s prosperity in terms of the amount of precious metals it possessed and a nation’s progress in terms of the increase in its amount of precious metals.

The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) strongly condemns the extrajudicial killing of Nambala Keshava Rao, General Secretary of the CPI (Maoist), and 26 others, many of whom were Adivasi residents, in an alleged encounter carried out under the guise of counterinsurgency operations in Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh.

New Delhi’s escalation over the Indus River isn’t just environmental–it’s strategic, existential, and signals a new front in the war of attrition with Islamabad.

In a statement concerning the killing of at least 27 Maoist rebels, including their leader, by state forces, on Wednesday 21 May, in Chhattisgarh, the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) spoke.

In the biggest aerial dogfight since World War II, two nuclear-armed rivals test the boundaries of conflict and deterrence–with some jaw-dropping surprises in the mix.

LET NOT THE HINDUTVA RULERS UNDO THE GREAT HERITAGE OF JOINT SACRIFICES.

To a person unfamiliar with India’s history and political economy, the Indian government’s response to Trump’s actions must be puzzling.

ELEMENTARY textbooks in economics invariably begin with a completely mythical concept: the concept of “perfect competition”, which is different from the concept of “free competition” that the classical economists and Marx had used.

DONALD Trump has put off his proposed tariffs by ninety days; but countries like India have to respond to Trump’s measures whether now or after ninety days.

A targeted program has been undertaken to develop sustainable livelihoods for thousands of families suffering under extreme poverty.

Nobody can claim that the rate of growth of agricultural production, especially of food grain production, has been higher in the neoliberal period than during the years of dirigiste development that preceded it; it may have been somewhat lower but let us agree that it is certainly no higher.

While deportation of non-citizens found to be in violation of U.S. Immigration Law is a routine procedure, this time it was different and brazen.

Writer and journalist Karan Madhok’s book ‘Ananda’ is a deep-dive into the cannabis plant–what it is, what it does, and how Indian society looks at and reacts to it.

A CHORUS of “establishment” voices, from consultancy firms to the financial press, has been demanding a boost to domestic consumption as a means of reviving the flagging growth rate of the Indian economy. The latest to join this chorus is the Reserve Bank of India which in its latest Bulletin has asked for a boost to consumption to “rekindle the animal spirits” of the “entrepreneurs” in the economy.

There are at least three basic differences between European nationalism as it developed in the seventeenth century and the anti-colonial third world nationalism of the twentieth century.

The NIA claimed before the Bombay HC that it would ‘expedite the trial’ in the case in which charges are yet to be framed.

The primary cause of the rupee’s depreciation is the preference of the Indian rich to hold their wealth in the form of U.S. dollars rather than in Indian rupees.

Several obituaries of Amiya Kumar Bagchi have appeared since his death on November 28, covering his remarkable achievements.

The aim of all fascistic governments is to disempower the people; and the Modi government is no exception.

KARL Marx had once said that all criticism must begin with the criticism of religion.