-The Indian Express The Aadhaar judgment divides the people of this country into those receiving state assistance, and others. The former will get socio-economic rights if they do as they are asked to do. Privacy is a luxury they can ill afford. The signs were there from the beginning. The poor were part of the marketing strategy for promoting a project that would require people to enrol in a database that...
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Murderous mob -- 9 states, 27 killings, one year: And a pattern to the lynchings -Rashmi Rajput, Abhishek Saha, Sweety Kumari, Sreenivas Janyala, Johnson TA, Arun Janardhanan, Prashant Pandey, and Dipankar Ghose
-The Indian Express Murderous mob — 9 states: The Indian Express investigates the circumstances of each death related to child-lifting rumours to find a common plot: helpless police, migrant victims. Bengaluru, Chennai, Dhule, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Raipur, Ranchi: Being an outsider, moving after sunset, taking an unfamiliar road, stopping to ask for directions, even offering a chocolate to a child on the way. This is what led to the killing of 27 people...
More »Pranab Bardhan, professor of graduate school in the department of economics at the University of California (Berkeley), interviewed by Devadeep Purohit (The Telegraph)
-The Telegraph The Left in Bengal had often criticised him whenever he red-flagged excessive local tyranny, and spoke about the industrial decline in Bengal. The incumbent ruling party may make tall claims about changes in Bengal since the Trinamul government came to power but he has been candid enough to suggest that he hasn't seen much change either in industrial expansion or in investment in infrastructure. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has...
More »Jean Dreze, development economist, interviewed by Down to Earth
-Down to Earth Jean Dreze on why he prefers a solidarity society, rather than a welfare state * Are you actually an advocate of the welfare state? Ideally, I would prefer to think in terms of a solidarity society rather than welfare state, for two reasons. First, private non-profit institutions can play a very useful role in the social sector. In many countries, some of the best schools and health centres are run...
More »Demonetisation has hit employment hard -Ajit Karnik
-Livemint.com The recent decline in the labour force participation rate should be a matter of deep concern for the Indian economy It has been a year since Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprised the country with the demonetisation announcement. Numerous commentators had criticized the move at the time for a variety of reasons, the most prominent among these being: (a) demonetisation was the wrong instrument for the intended objective of eliminating black money...
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