The UK based steel multinational ArcelorMittal, has found favour with both Union and Andhra Pradesh (AP) state governments to establish a steel factory, located hardly a few miles away from the public ...

There are developments in the global economy where established, time-tested models are going for a toss and right inside the heart of global capitalism – USA. Once upon a time, the Phillips curve was ...

As Khushwant Singh and I put together his book ‘Absolute Khushwant’ (Pengiun, 2010 ), where he spoke and I wrote, he spoke in great detail about the various personalities and politicians he’d met all ...

In the early beginnings of Freedom, some sixteen years ago, there was in our paper an article, entitled ‘Local Action’, which attracted at that time a good deal of attention in Socialist circles. Till ...

The interlinking of rivers (ILR) is ill-conceived, ruinously expensive, technically questionable, ecologically devastating, and socially disruptive. Here’s why ILR needs to be scrapped, and integrated ...

I was one of some 30 or 40 academics, scholars and journalists who went to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s official residence in the heart of Delhi on account of a book release. The author was J.N.

India’s economic crisis in 1991 brought out the toughness in an otherwise humble and self-effacing OX-Bridge trained economist, Dr. Manmohan Singh, when Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao chose him as ...

I like to indulge in some broad reflections on the lessons of the year that is ending. My focus is largely on the political arena with some thoughts expressed on the direction of the economy, ...

The recent fracas in the Parliament over the remarks made by Home Minister Amit Shah, on Nehru’s reaction to Ambedkar’s resignation over the Hindu code bill has sparked a debate in the public sphere.

The statement by the Union Home Minister, Amit Shah during a debate in the Rajya Sabha marking 75 years of India’s Constitution, referencing Dr Ambedkar has given rise to a much needed debate on what ...

Perhaps in my reading list of books, this will have to be included in the most surprising book of the year 2024. That is why in the state level program of West Bengal NAPM, when I was specially asked ...