2024

There are numerous sources of political leadership in Indian politics, spanning from familial political legacies to issues rooted in economics, society, and culture. Political leadership emerges from various quarters, including familial lineages, socio-economic concerns, religious affiliations, ethnic identities, cultural movements, linguistic divisions, and ideological mobilizations. Additionally, the evolution of market-driven democracies has ushered in leaders from corporate and (…)

March 06, 2024
Employers provide direct financial or in-kind ‘support’ to their workers. In most households this is a form of benevolence, not an entitlement. This can change.
Every day millions of women in India enter their employers’ homes and perform duties such as cooking, cleaning and child minding.
Many work in multiple households. They work long hours doing menial tasks. They are poorly paid and — worse — despite being salaried employees, they have little or no protections from (…)

In our childhood, when the Freedom movement in our country had reached its peak and the Indian National Congress under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi was at the helm, our oldies were also inspired by it, though passively. I remember my grandfather used to sometimes utter a few lines of a then popular patriotic song which literally meant that the instrument used by Gandhi to make cotton thread called TAKLEE, has now become a threatening weapon for the Britishers who were then ruling India. (…)

3/2/24
Initial public offer (IPO) is a process which allows a company to raise funds from public for its growth and expansion. As the term stands it is the initial process of raising funds from the public as before this process the company would have been dependent upon promoters’ or private funds.
As such, companies having grown by relying on the resources provided by the founders, their friends and families and relatives; but still need more funds to get bigger, they undertake a (…)

Unfinished, October 1926
Text from Antonio Gramsci "Selections from political-writings (1921-1926)", translated and edited by Quintin Hoare (Lawrence and Wishart, London 1978). Transcribed to the www with the kind permission of Quintin Hoare.
These notes were initially stimulated by the publication of an article on the Southern question by "Ulenspiegel" in the 18 September issue of the journal Quarto Stato, and by the somewhat comical editorial presentation which preceded it. (…)

Peace can come through the immediate implementation of the two-state solution, making the admission of Palestine to the United Nations the starting point, not the ending point.

Political Polarisation denotes a pronounced division of ideologies among opposing factions, accompanied by heightened partisanship and a breakdown in cross-party collaboration. The escalating religious polarisation in India’s election campaigns is characterised by divisive rhetoric and the integration of religion and identity politics. Propelled by the intricacies of caste-community-region dynamics, such polarisation impedes the mobilisation of these communities. When we examine the 2020 (…)

Abstract
This film is centered around the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) journey of the protagonist, Vikrant Massey aka Manoj Kumar Sharma. Manoj Kumar Sharma’s extraordinary journey is masked by complex social realities. This article will attempt to critically explore the main character and the “hidden privileges” that allowed him to complete his journey, which the filmmaker conveniently ignores. This article is an attempt to investigate how his unique situations, support (…)

When He was summoned to live in the new abode, Lord Ram felt being out of place; He felt He is an odd one out among gods. The gods in India have age-old homes, Which provide antique ambience In which they dwell comfortably. The new temple into which the Lord Was summoned to dwell makes Him Giddy as He is made anachronic.
He feels loneliness in the modern abode, And talks Himself as follows: "There was a man who used to chant Hey Ram; he chanted Hey Ram Even when he was shot to death. He (…)

In early March the price of Kinnow fruit at Gaddiannaram fruit market, Hyderabad is Rs 40 a Kilogram. While oranges and apples are increasingly dumped into Indian markets from California or New Zealand, small farmers in Punjab are distressed for not receiving even half the cost of production. Today, WTO has become a major barrier for both crop MSPs and Public Stock Holding (cheap ration under PDS). This is the outcome of India’s entry into WTO nearly three decades back. After nearly three (…)