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Notwithstanding the soothing words of the Indian Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, Indian economy is in for a great deal of trouble. Looking…
The ideological basis of the ongoing phase of globalization is ‘Washington Consensus’, which some people call as ‘neo-liberalism’ or ‘market fundamentalism’. The…
For almost a decade or so, the news of suicides by debt-ridden farmers has been constantly hogging the headlines of Indian newspapers.…
Racism takes different forms at different places and in different times, but, basically, it is an attitude or ideological stance that is…
If one looks at India’s post-Independence scenario in political, social, cultural, academic, literary, journalistic, religious or any other sphere, one comes across…
Karl Marx once remarked: "War in direct economic terms is just the same as if a nation cast part of its capital…
Even a cursory glance at the Economic Survey 2007-08 is enough to convince that the process of replacing, nay, ridiculing Jawaharlal Nehru’s…
It is beyond dispute that, in recent decades, the prosperity of a large segment of the Indian middle and the upper…
Ratan Tata, the scion of a prominent business family of India, appears to be a very compassionate man. Just like the prince…
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