For many Indians, the period of the Emergency in the mid 1970s represents the blackest period for Indian democracy since Independence. As a student at University during that time, seeing the repression and fear all around and knowing some of…
With Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) or “Movement for Justice” winning 116 of the 272 seats filled through election in Pakistan’s National Assembly, the former cricketer is set to be installed as his country’s next Prime Minister. So attention has…
Sometimes even a tiny news-item can reveal volumes about capitalism. The Indian stock market, as is well-known, is booming at present: the 30-share Sensex closed at a new high of 38,278.75 on Monday the 20th of August, and the broader-based…
How has the idea of development has changed over the years? Utsa Patnaik, T Jayaraman, Prabhat Patnaik, Abhijit Sen and C. P. Chandrasekhar participate in a discussion moderated by Jayati Ghosh, at a seminar held on 19 August 2018 in…
In a seminar remembering Vineet Kohli, the economist from TISS, a panel of economists discuss the idea of Development and how the idea has changed over the years. Utsa Patnaik, T Jayaraman, Prabhat Patnaik, Abhijit Sen and C. P. Chandrasekhar…
Slow growth of employment has been a remarkable feature of economic change in India during the post-liberalisation period. Economic growth over this period has been highly uneven across different sectors and regions. The rate of growth of agriculture and manufacturing…
Recent data from the Annual Survey of Industries, covering up to 2015-16, provide some interesting insights into the changing nature of industrial employment in India. In the decade up to 2015-16, there was a significant increase in the number of…
On Wednesday August 8, the Delhi High Court decriminalized begging in the capital. In the course of its hearing it had raised the question how begging could be an offence in a country where the government was unable to provide…
This is a memorial for Dr. Vineet Kohli, Assistant Professor at TISS and a former CESP student, whose untimely death has left a void in the world of heterodox economics in this country. His friends in JNU are organising a…
The School of Social Science Council JNUSU had organised a workshop titled ‘Alternative Discourses in Macroeconomics’, conducted by Emeritus Professor, Prabhat Patnaik. The Council is pleased to inform that this will be continued as a lecture series in the coming…
