2026

The Government of India has been evaluating the impact of the US restriction on H-1 B visas on skilled talent mobility, technology development, innovation, economic growth, competitiveness, and wealth creation in India. The impact of the modifications to the US H-1B visa policy for Indians on the rising firm concentration ratio in India’s current oligopoly market structure will be explained in this article. The proposed $100,000 fee per H-1B application for companies and a new $250 Visa (…)

May 27, 2026
With the shift in US–China relations, India is emerging as the strategic cog in the US wheel, Pakistan as a tactical partner, NATO as the anchor of the Atlantic alliance, and QUAD countries as a tool to serve the Indo‑Pacific.
On May 16, 2026, Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping formally acknowledged what has long been in motion: a paradigm shift in US–China relations. Beijing frames it as “constructive strategic stability”; US Secretary of State Marco Rubio calls it a (…)

Increasing concern has been expressed in recent times regarding the several dangerous ongoing wars and civil wars and the possibilities of their escalation and expansion. While any discourse motivated by peace objectives is most welcome, we argue here that a lot of recent discussion may be missing out on a wider and very important reality that has two important aspects. Firstly, human society may be becoming more of a violent society with intolerably high levels of physical and emotional (…)

October 12, 1935
The intellectual middle class, the engineers, scientists, technical employees, etc. are a necessary part of industrial production, quite as indispensable as the workers themselves. Technical progress, in replacing workers by machines, tends to increase their number. Therefore their class interests and their class character must be of increasing importance in the social struggles.
Their growing numbers reflect the growing importance of science and theory in the production (…)

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Critical Theory and the Critique of Alternative Societies: Co-operatives, Mutual Aid and Universal Basic Income
by Neal Harris
Manchester University Press
2026. 184 pp.,
ISBN 9781526172228
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Reviewed by Domonkos Sik
Neal Harris is taking on a daunting quest: critiquing those emancipatory movements that, by their own definition and according to the mainstream view of Marxist and critical sociology, are supposed to widen the

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Seventy-three days into the Iran war, the Prime Minister asked Indians to cut fuel, defer foreign travel, postpone gold, reduce edible oil, revive work-from-home, and buy Indian. Citizens of any country with an import profile like India’s would accept restraint in a crisis. The question is why this crisis arrived so unprepared for, after eleven years of Make in India, Atmanirbhar Bharat, and Aatmanirbharta. Each ask names a vulnerability the policy ledger was supposed to close. The bill is (…)

Labour Unrest and Workers

Abstract: India’s e-SHRAM portal is one of the world’s largest digital registries of unorganised workers. With over 31.48 crore workers registered as of January 2026, it represents an important administrative achievement. Yet registration alone does not guarantee social protection. Drawing on field evidence from informal workers in Gurugram, this article argues that e-SHRAM has made workers visible to the state without necessarily enabling them to claim welfare benefits. The challenge, (…)

Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant stated recently in an open court, "There are youngsters like cockroaches. They don’t get any employment. Some of them become media, some become social media, some become RTI activists, some of them become other activists."
When there was an outrage in the world outside, Justice Surya Kant clarified that his courtroom remarks comparing certain individuals to "cockroaches" and "parasites" were strictly aimed at individuals using fake degrees to enter (…)