Dilemma in EuropePRABHAT PATNAIKThe Left's defence of the welfare state is hampered by its inability to suggest an alternative to capitalism where its resistance can succeed.
Democratic disconnectPRABHAT PATNAIKTHE fact that India has managed to sustain a multiparty parliamentary democracy for six decades, which has guaranteed to every citizen a certain minim
All for a new BengalPRABHAT PATNAIKEACH generation has its own dominant image of Jyoti Basu. For an earlier generation than mine this image is of an intrepid fighter in the cause of the
Neoliberalism Return of the statePRABHAT PATNAIKThe hegemony of finance capital that underlay neoliberalism is unlikely to persist in the old form.
A suitable strategyPRABHAT PATNAIKAs the neoliberal edifice crumbles in the face of rising prices, a rationing regime becomes the only way of protecting the poor from their impact.
Breeding ground for communalismPRABHAT PATNAIKHindutva may be electorally successful in the short run. But the conjuncture in which it has been thriving is beginning to change.
Conservatism to the forePRABHAT PATNAIKIt is clear from Budget 2008 that the UPA, instead of abandoning its neoliberal agenda in an election year, has decided to stick to it resolutely.
Road less travelledPRABHAT PATNAIKThe LDF's one year in power in Kerala is a resounding demonstration of the fact that governments have options other than neoliberalism.
Left in governmentPRABHAT PATNAIKThe Left is now placed in a happy transitional period when it can get the support of rural toilers and urban middle classes.
The budgetary non-exerciseBY PRABHAT PATNAIKThis year's Union Budget is more a set of projections than a mechanism for conscious intervention with a clear purpose.
The budgetary non-exercisePRABHAT PATNAIKThis year's Union Budget is more a set of projections than a mechanism for conscious intervention with a clear purpose.
A tactical compromisePRABHAT PATNAIKThe Budget represents a tactical adjustment in the march along a neo-liberal path, which should not be confused for a new trajectory of "liberalisatio
Are Hindi films problematising history? After Padmaavat, the Hindu historical tasted blood and sharpened its fangs, but the recent Samrat Prithviraj is a weak offspring of the genre, neither
SlideshowPostcards from Khasi hillsImages that mix politics, history and discomfort to document how the Khasi people made Christianity, a “foreign faith”, their own.
