Climbing down from the high horse it was accustomed to ride, the IMF is now telling the poor countries that, in order to stimulate growth, they could lower lending rates; market forces may for the...
A Calcutta Diary
Sailen Das, the medical man cum music buff cum political activist, refused to play the game. He refused point-blank to get rich quickly; he therefore had to be shot point-blank. Those who set...
India, a horrendously chaotic polity, is all set for a monotonic, precipitate decline. No scope here for Hitchcockian suspense, with sudden, final-moment twists of events, culminating in some rescue...
The UTI fiasco has let down the middle class. It is a politically sensitive issue and the government is bound to launch into a number of firefighting operations. But once befuddled, twice shy. There...
After a hundred years of being subjected to a vacuous, remorseless neocolonialism, the Bihari psyche began to assert itself in a most forceful manner in the second half of the 20th century. And two...
The ferocity of the attacks launched against the Tamil Nadu governor for having called upon Jayalalitha to form the government has transgressed the limits of fair criticism. The fault after all lies...
Two decades ago no official committee would have dared to suggest that in this country where roughly one-third of the population is without the minimum subsistence calories foodgrains should be...
The outcome of the West Bengal assembly poll has established the basic point: what the media think is hugely irrelevant. An additional factor contributing to the demolition of Kali the Destroyer is...
Is it not odd that while the victims of applied free-market philosophy are overwhelmingly in the underdeveloped parts of the world, whatever resistance, token or otherwise, offered against it is...
Whatever the finance minister may say in his umpteen statements on the floor of parliament and whatever alibi the RBI and the SEBI may trot out for their lotus-eaters' indolence, nothing much is...
It is almost apologetically that one endeavours to put on record that this is Professor D R Gadgil's centenary year. Half a century ago, he was a man whose importance could not be brushed aside. He...
Events are unfolding at an extremely fast pace. It is at this moment difficult to guess how India's ruling superstructure is going to crumble, or whether it is going to crumble at all. For there is...
The absurd economic laws and theories that have dominated western societies have succeeded in doing so because most of these societies have an infrastructure of inequity and inequality. The pretence...
Indrajit Gupta had an uninterrupted parliamentary career from 1960, with a gap of two-and-a-half years from 1977. The suavity of his parliamentary performance had depth. The Lok Sabha gradually lost...
What distinguishes the Gujarat cataclysm is the fact that this has been one earthquake where, along with the poor, affluent sections of society have also been substantial sufferers. Perhaps for the...
