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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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Uniformity or diversity, centralisation or decentralisation — this contestation was inscribed into the text of the Republic’s founding document. Interrogating whether concentration of power serves the plural and diverse India of the 21st century would be the truest act of service to the Constitution, as it completes its 75th birthday The Court did so by…
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Originally published: Black Agenda Report on January 15, 2025 by Roberto Sirvent (more by Black Agenda Report) | (Posted Jan 20, 2025) Empire, Human Rights, Imperialism, InequalityAmericas, United StatesNewswire“Abolish Rent”, BAR Book Forum, Leonardo Vilchis, Rent, Tracy Rosenthal In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured authors are Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis. Rosenthal is a writer…
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Mnar Muhawesh In this episode of MintCast, host Mnar Adley speaks with historian, journalist, and author Vijay Prashad about the turmoil shaping 2025. As 2025 begins, California is on fire. And it feels like much of the rest of the world is burning, too. From the slaughter in the Middle East to a new Cold War brewing in Asia,…
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By: David Lerner Poetic Outlaws Jan 24, 2025 van Gogh, can you tell me how many martyrs does it take to open up a blood bank van Gogh, can you tell me where does beauty go when it dies? van Gogh, can you tell me why saints live on car exhaust and are lonely as…
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In the seven decades of the working of the Constitution, there has been a gradual drift towards the entrenching of a set of its characteristics, says the author in his new book ‘The Indian Constitution: A Conversation with Power’ Published – January 24, 2025 09:02 am A protest in Srinagar against the removal of Article 370…
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