VENKATESH ATHREYA-Frontline

Read Premium Articles - Subscribe Now

Follow us on

|

VENKATESH ATHREYA

FL02PTI1292018000127B

Economic Survey

Too clever by half?

VENKATESH ATHREYA

Despite its deeply flawed neoliberal perspective, Economic Survey 2017-18 is rich in detail, has many useful analytical discussions at different level

Five-year Plans

Demise of planning

VENKATESH ATHREYA

India’s planning process has had serious democracy deficits, but the country needs a similar mechanism to cope with the challenges posed by neoliber

Economic Survey 2015-16

Sophisticated neoliberalism

VENKATESH ATHREYA

Economic Survey 2015-16 covers vast ground but its premises are essentially neoliberal, marked by an overwhelming focus on fiscal consolidation and an

Economic Survey

‘Free market’ manifesto

VENKATESH ATHREYA

The Economic Survey, while containing rich empirical material, is limited hugely by its unswerving faith in the “optimality” of free markets.

Proportional representation

For fair representation

Venkatesh Athreya

It is time India moved towards a system of at least partial proportional representation as the present first-past-the-post system often results in ske

22FLBUDGETFICCIATHREYA

Wages of neoliberalism

VENKATESH ATHREYA

The Economic Survey’s response to the problems of the Indian economy is “structural reforms”, which translate into reducing the fiscal deficit

20110506280909301jpg

Positive signals

VENKATESH ATHREYA

The first results of Census 2011 put India's population at 1,210 million, indicating a demographic transition.

20110325280601901jpg

Neoliberal refrain

VENKATESH ATHREYA

Economic Survey 2010-11 presents the annual restatement of neoliberal faith, embellished with elegant but highly superficial arguments.

20100226270403001jpg

Myth of socialism

VENKATESH ATHREYA

THE term socialist was added to the definition of the republic in the Indian Constitution during the infamous period of internal emergency through the

20100212270302801jpg

Power to the people

VENKATESH ATHREYA

AN aspect of the media coverage of the passing away of one of the tallest statesmen of India, Jyoti Basu, was the tendency in some quarters to focus o

20100115270108401jpg

Far from healthy

VENKATESH ATHREYA

THE 25 years since the launch of Frontline have been an eventful period in the life of the Indian republic. As the 60th year of the republic approache

20100115270117401jpg

Taking stock

VENKATESH ATHREYA

A QUICK look at the distribution of Frontline stories by broad content groups brings out a few interesting features. In an exercise undertaken in-hous

First
Prev
1
2
3
Next
Last

Frontline ebook

columns

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

Slideshow

Hooked on tradition

A festival in rural Bengal, considered essential to usher in a bountiful harvest, is marked by plenty of rituals, some of them dramatic but bizarre.

Walking in Indian Cities – A Daily Agony for Millions

GEETAM TIWARI