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Socialism and the Indian Constitution (part of a series of short volumes that Neera Chandoke and I are editing for the Centre for Equity Studies
Rooted in anti-colonial struggle, Indian socialism, despite its limitations, helped progress towards an egalitarian society. Can that pathway be reclaimed? India’s immensely respected economist and public intellectual Prabhat Patnaik masterfully assembles in the pages of a short monograph the sweep of India’s post-colonial economic history. This is in his forthcoming Socialism and the Indian Constitution (part of
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Society & Culture “Red Star Over China” was a massive coup for the young American journalist Edgar Snow. The book is still a gripping read, but it is also an abject lesson in the pitfalls of access in China. Paul Frenc Edgar Snow and Mao Zedong This is book No. 39 on Paul French’s Ultimate China…
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After many decades of stasis, we see the growth of a ‘new mood’ in the Global South. Though only a hint of a new possibility, it holds tremendous democratic potential, with sovereignty at its centre. 17 April 2025 Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In the last days of March,…
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George Tsakraklides Apr 09, 2025 Every economy which fails to manage its growth eventually destroys itself. Humanity has embraced continuous expansion, a concept no different than cancer. Pausing or stopping growth altogether is essential for all living organisms, and this is why every species on this planet comes with genes dedicated to managing growth. Degrowth…
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The things we do as permanent persuaders…. Vijay Prashad Apr 15, 2025 Over the past ten years, I have been involved with the building of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. The idea behind the institute is pretty simple. We believe that Marx’s 11th Thesis on Feuerbach is incorrectly understood. Marx wrote: Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world…
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Zoya Hasan 19/Apr/2025 The conclusion of the IAC agitation marked, in a sense, the end of the road for the UPA, even though the economy was in much better shape than it ever had been under the previous NDA government. The following is an excerpt from Deconstructing India’s Democracy: Essays in Honour of James Manor, edited…
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