Sitharaman’s announcements on day one peddled liquidity as fiscal stimulus to dupe people
Nirmala Sitharaman’s announcements, on the first day of the many days she will announce details of Modi’s Rs 20 billion-worth package, were simply hollow.
Nirmala Sitharaman’s announcements, on the first day of the many days she will announce details of Modi’s Rs 20 billion-worth package, were simply hollow.
“Self-reliant India” is a rhetoric. An old wine in an old bottle but with a new label. This demagogy won’t rescue the country from crisis, but a plan will.
Modi’s “Atmanirbhar Bharat” or self-reliant India isn’t a vision of a free, self-reliant economy but of becoming a neo-colonial cheap labour-based economy.
Modi’s address to nation unveiled the forthcoming tyrannical corporate fascist rule that will ruin the lives and livelihood of the poor and undo democracy.
The cat was peeping out of the bag for long, but with the the BJP’s assault on labour rights under the garb of fighting COVID-19 menace brought it out.
Who should be blamed for the Instagram “Bois Locker Room” controversy? Is it just a fringe incident or a reflection of our misogynist society?
The Aurangabad train accident that killed 16 “migrant workers” sleeping on May 8th wasn’t merely an accident but an institutional slaughter of the poor.
Social distancing is a term that’s used 24/7 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. But in our social context, is this the right term to use at this hour?
Right wing populism is quickly emerging as a new dominant political discourse. It is radically re-constituting the uneven field of politics on which ideological battles are fought. Right-wing demagogues use a diversified repertoire of rhetorical tools to not only temporarily acquire dominance but to disaggregate frozen beliefs and re-configure them. To analyse this process of re-constitution, this article uses the vocabulary provided by George Orwell in his seminal book “1984”.
The second part of the analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic, share buy back and fictitious capital: A capitalist effort to survive the financial crisis.
How Irrfan Khan’s death was used to deny the US’s accusation of religious intolerance in India. Can mourning Khan’s death imply there is no Islamophobia?
Whether the lockdown was necessary if it didn’t flatten the curve and is now relaxed when the number of COVID-19 patients is rising? What about testing?
Karl Marx is 202 today and after celebrating the bicentenary of his birth two years ago with much hullaballoo, the academic Marxists, who are divorced from the practice of class struggle, do not remember him any more now. They probably even don’t remember (or care) that it’s the bicentenary of Marx’s life-long comrade-in-arms and friend Frederick Engels. … Read more
The working class is subjugated and repressed by the Hindutva fascist state during the lockdown. But this won’t end them. They will return very soon.
Modi’s PMCARES Fund and Aarogya Setu app have been severely criticised but that didn’t stop the prime minister from consolidating his tyrannical hegemony.
For questioning and investigating allegations of PDS irregularities, Soumo Mondal, a contributor of People’s Review is arrested by the Kolkata Police.
Zombies are well-known to the people, thanks to endless Hollywood flicks showing the undead dead. But it’s important to know the history of zombies as well.
The International Labour Day 2020 on May 1st, amid an unprecedented lockdown, is when one should look at the challenges posed to the Indian working class.