Indian inflation is best tackled by addressing food inflation – which is clearly a government responsibility. The role that monetary policy can play in this context is limited. Photo: Raghav Wasan/Unsplash Support Us ECONOMYWORLD12 HOURS AGO In mid 2021, as the world emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic, prices started rising in multiple countries. Inflation reached…

FRENY MANECKSHA·DECEMBER 17, 2023 In this interview, trade unionist and lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj, who was jailed in the Bhima-Koregaon matter and has just produced a book on From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada, tells Freny Manecksha how prison changes one for the worse, but also for the better. — “BUT the irony is…

ARIF AYAZ PARREY AND SARAH THANAWALA·JANUARY 1, 2024 Many of the accused in the Bhima Koregaon–Elgar Parishad case have now spent one more year incarcerated without a trial. A far cry from the verbiage of high judicial officials that even a day’s denial of liberty is too much. — ON August 5 this year, Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira walked…

INDIRA JAISING·JANUARY 2, 2024 As 2023 continues the backslide of democracy in India, what role has the judiciary played in it, and what role could it play? Indira Jaising cuts through the dense fog.  — AT the end of the year, a court must be judged by its core function, the judgments that it delivers in…

Antonio Gramsci January 1, 2015 This text was first published in Avanti!, Turin edition, from his column “Sotto la Mole,” January 1, 1916. Every morning, when I wake again under the pall of the sky, I feel that for me it is New Year’s day. That’s why I hate these New Year’s that fall like fixed maturities, which…