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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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by John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark (Jan 01, 2025) Topics: Biography Ecology Marxism Marxist Ecology Media Places: Americas Cuba United States John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is the author, most recently, of The Dialectics of Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2024). Brett Clark is associate editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Utah. He is the author…
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Raj Shekhar Sen 8 hours ago 5 min read We, the Indian STEM kids, remain ensnared in a web of simplistic binaries – our lives shaped from the earliest moments by family structures that demand obedience, caste hierarchies that normalise subjugation, and classrooms that reward quiet compliance. The first shock of stepping into a US…
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Yanis Varoufakis Watching, on the one hand, the Israeli soldiers’ video confessions of their genocidal intent and acts and, on the other hand, the Palestinians’ livestreaming of their own deaths and devastation, it is ever so easy to throw one’s hands up in the air, to despair, to want to shut the cruelty out, to…
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Saturday 4 January 2025, by J P Gadkari Mainstream, Vol 63 No 1, January 4, 2025 The nation had the tragic coincidence of a huge nature being struck to it when it was about to celebrate in a big way the Centenary of Mahatma Gandhi having completed 100 years of his presiding over the only time as…
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