Counter Culture What explains the asphyxiating glut of biopics in Indian cinema?Prathyush Parasuraman
Presidential Election 2022 Droupadi’s moment: Can the presidential candidate push the envelope?Peter Ronald deSouza
Economic Perspectives The strange case of Videocon’s insolvencyC.P. ChandrasekharThe twists and turns in the Videocon bankruptcy proceedings have called into question the integrity of the IBC, which was touted as a game-changing me
Economic Perspectives Biden’s economic policy faces a backlashC.P. ChandrasekharAs President Joe Biden strives to win support for substantially enhanced spending to help the post COVID recovery of the United States economy, critic
Economic Perspectives Union government’s new e-commerce rules target Amazon and Flipkart-WalmartC.P. ChandrasekharThere seem to be multiple motivations underlying the Union government’s recent interventions in the digital sphere, which target foreign e-commerce fi
Imperialism Crime and empireC.P. CHANDRASEKHARAn insider story of the economic hit men of imperialism. (Published in the issue dated April 22, 2005.)
Economic Perspectives Communique released after G7 Finance Ministers’ summit does not have much to offer beyond commitments already agreed upon C.P. ChandrasekharThe global minimum tax proposal that the G7 Finance Ministers’ summit agreed upon falls disappointingly short of what is needed and possible. And the
Economic Perspectives The economic crisis is real; the picture of economic resilience is an illusionC.P. ChandrasekharWhile two official reports on the economic fallout of the second wave of COVID-19 in India suggest that it has been less severe than the first, the fa
Economic Perspectives Global commodity price spike, or commodity ‘supercycle’, is a ‘boom’ without promiseC.P. ChandrasekharIt is speculated that the world economy is set to experience another commodity price spike, or commodity “supercycle”, a tendency in which most commod
Column Topsy-turvy journalismSashi KumarThe Marxist concept of the free press, as enunciated forcefully and at length by Marx himself, is not to be confused with the vitiated role of a nomin
Economic Perspectives Sharp economic divergence in global impact of pandemicC.P. ChandrasekharThe annual Spring Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank note the sharp divergence in the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic globally and also p
Economic Perspectives Biden’s global corporate tax plans send mixed signalsC.P. ChandrasekharThe Joe Biden administration may have ambitions of restoring U.S. economic competitiveness and dominance, but its position on digital services taxes s
Economic Perspectives Biden’s $1.9 trillion ‘American Rescue Plan’ all set to boost U.S. economyC.P. ChandrasekharThe Joe Biden administration’s decision to hugely ramp up government spending through the American Rescue Plan Act signals a return to proactive gover
Economic Perspectives Pakistan caught in debt trapC.P. ChandrasekharPakistan’s debt crisis, further aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic, is the result of not only its fiscal profligacy but also the supply side debt pus
SlideshowCaptured in timeAs independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.
