Mainstream Weekly

Pandemic and the Reverse Migration of Labour in India

Sunanda Sen — 2020-06-06T09:11:17Z

The current predicaments faced by of India's migrant labour - losing livelihood and shelter in urban areas as started with the 4-hour notice for a complete shutdown in response to the Pandemic - will remain as one of the worst humanitarian crisis the country has ever faced since independence. The gruesome details of the sufferings by masses of the uprooted people lacking access to shelter, food or sources of income or even means of transport to take them back to places they came from, (…)

- 2020

Global Financial Crisis: A Classic 'Ponzi' Affair?

Sunanda Sen — 2008-10-27T13:30:56Z

The current turmoil in the US financial market and its spilling over to financial markets overseas has made it once more evident that we need to scrutinise the validity and relevance of the neo-liberal theory and policies which brought about this mess.
We try in the following pages, to interpret the crisis: first, by identifying the two special characteristics of the current crisis which also explain its intensity. We also look into the dominant precepts behind, an uncritical acceptance (…)

- October 25, 2008

SEZs : Modern Enclaves to Reward Capital by Exploiting Labour and Displacing Livelihoods in the Agrarian Economy

Byasdeb Dasgupta, Sunanda Sen — 2007-05-03T23:39:41Z

The Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have received a lot of attention in the neo-liberal agenda for industrialisation and development. In India the issue has currently been a matter of public concern and intense debates, primarily on the question of land acquisition and the displacement of the agrarian community as results therefrom. We would like to draw attention in this note to one more aspect of the current SEZ policy in India which affects the status of labour employed within these (…)

- April 28, 2007