Food security: Feeding the future
A controversy surrounding the World Food Prize highlights how the fault-lines of power struggles are no longer essentially between nations. Civil society organisations across the world are taking on...
View ArticleEconomic democracy: Waiting for mutation
A spokesperson of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) recently clarified that it can be Socialist without being silly. This is unlikely to impress those who want market-driven growth in India. For them AAP’s...
View ArticleEconomic democracy
An explosion of material aspirations is posing new challenges to Indian democracy. Beneath all the outrage about crony capitalism, inept governance and absent jobs is an unrest that arises from a...
View ArticleMarketplace sarvodayanomics
The austere simplicity of the Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal’s ageing single-storey building illustrates why sarvodaya is regarded as the relic of a bygone era. Sarvodaya, literally uplift of all, defined...
View ArticleWTO, sovereignty and trade
An old tussle between economic globalisation and political sovereignty has once again come to the fore with India’s decision not to ratify the WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). This may seem...
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