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India’s motive in prosecuting Arundhati Roy
The Modi government plans to try the globally renowned author under a draconian anti-terrorism law, reports Ullekh NP.
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Democracy will not come through compromise and fear: The Twenty-Fourth Newsletter (2024)
In 2024, 64 countries and the EU will hold elections. Amid the corrupting influence of money, power, and corrosive discourse, the search for a genuine democratic spirit continues.
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What is to be done about unemployment?
A distinction is drawn in economics between demand-constrained systems and resource-constrained systems (which for simplicity and symmetry we shall call supply-constrained systems).
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How BJP masked its class agenda with false religious narrative
In attacking the wealth tax proposal, the PM whipped up hatred against Muslims, trashed Congress, thereby protecting his super-rich patrons.
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Britain’s century long Opium trafficking and China’s ‘Century of Humiliation’ (1839-1949)
In 1500, India and China were the world’s most advanced civilizations.
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Heat stress exposes dangerous trends in India’s biggest cities
A CSE study of 6 mega cities flags concerns over rising concretization and loss of green cover among other things.
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Digitalisation in India: The class agenda [Part IV]
Indian propagandists talk of India’s “emerging status as a technological powerhouse”, and the heads of the world’s largest technology corporations have started to refer to India as a global technology/software “superpower”, at least in their interactions with Indian media outlets.
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Neo-liberalism has increased mass poverty
It is not a difficult proposition to substantially reduce poverty through redistributive measures. About one tenth of India’s GDP would need to be devoted to providing adequate food for the population, basic and comprehensive healthcare, compulsory free education, employment guarantee and old age pension; for which additional taxation of 7 per cent of GDP that the rich and super-rich can easily bear, would be needed. Combined with vigorous implementation of the existing National Food Security Act 2013 and the MG National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, genuine large-scale reduction of poverty would result
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A captive’s musings on freedom: Gautam Navlakha’s notes from prison
It is at a time like this that one faces a critical choice: to either fall silent and submit to the authorities or to continue to strive and struggle for freedom, unmindful of the outcome.
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Menace on the menu: The financialisation of farmland and the war on food and farming
Between 2008 and 2022, land prices nearly doubled throughout the world and tripled in Central-Eastern Europe.
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NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha to be released on bail after arrest ruled illegal
Police charged Prabir and NewsClick with colluding with foreign powers to sabotage India on the basis of a New York Times “hit piece” published in August 2023 which targeted several other anti-war organizations in the U.S. as well.
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Elgar Parishad Case: After 4 years, activist-journalist Gautam Navlakha gets bail
Charges not framed yet… trial would take years and years and years for completion, observes the SC bench while lifting the stay on Bombay HC’s order granting bail in 2023.
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NewsClick rejects absurd, baseless allegations in Delhi Police chargesheet
NewsClick and Prabir Purkyastha have not been involved in any terrorist act. Nor is there any evidence for the same. Prabir does not have links to any terrorist group.
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On the question of the inheritance tax
The neoliberal years, it is generally agreed, have seen a sharp widening of income and wealth inequalities; in India it has even caused an increase in the extent of absolute deprivation.
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Rural labour in the Modi years
The two phenomena, a reduction in real wages and a reduction in employment opportunities, in fact go together.
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India as a tool to contain China-Geopolitics explained
When one of the rivals gets a bit too strong, it will be attacked mercilessly.
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Fetishising the growth rate of GDP
JOHN Stuart Mill was among the foremost liberal thinkers of modern times who wrote extensively on economics and philosophy.
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A striking contrast
Reichstag Fire was a crucial event in the conversion of Germany from a liberal democracy into a fascist dictatorship in 1933.
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The anatomy of a ‘Hindu Rashtra’
Words can be highly deceptive; and Hindu rashtra is a perfect example of this.
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A journalist bothers the Indian far-right
Prabir Purkayastha created a vibrant publication in Delhi, connected to social movements and successful. He´s now imprisoned at 78 under an infamous law. The episode reveals much about the nature, methods, and vulnerabilities of Narendra Modi´s regime.