The missing `human face'PRABHAT PATNAIKThe Budget has missed the opportunity to reconcile liberalisation with the welfare of the masses, as UPA leaders appeared to promise. Instead, it sign
A deflationary BudgetPRABHAT PATNAIKThe Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Jaswant Singh carries forward neo-liberal policies that spelt disaster for several East Asian and Latin
The Great Indian Media Bazaar Market, Morals and the MediaPRABHAT PATNAIKThe media scene in India is best likened to a bazaar. The Great Indian Media Bazaar has many streams, components and players (and is set soon to have
The poverty of economic policyPRABHAT PATNAIKInstead of giving a thrust to the economy by initiating programmes for rural development, the Budget opts for the problem-ridden way of public investm
A case for more public expenditurePRABHAT PATNAIKThe management of the economy is seriously flawed: on what the government should, and should not, do in the prevailing situation.
The assault on reasonPRABHAT PATNAIKWhat the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government is doing to education is the precursor to nothing less than an assault on reason.
The poverty of theoryPRABHAT PATNAIKBeneath the specific provisions and prognostications of Budget 2001 lies a flawed strategic perspective derived from an erroneous theory.
Of privatisation and swadeshiPRABHAT PATNAIKTHE most notable feature of the 1998-99 Budget is the Finance Minister's announcement of a large-scale programme of privatisation of the economy. Key
The contradictions of swadeshiPRABHAT PATNAIKThe ideal of any coherent swadeshi programme is to make domestic capitalists emerge as autonomous players in the global arena with state support, and
A global visionPRABHAT PATNAIKWhat is remarkable about the vision of EMS is not only its appeal, which arises because of its essential correctness, but also its quality of being fr
SlideshowCaptured in timeAs independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.
