MEDHA PATKAR has not been able to stop the Sardar Sarovar dam from being built, or tribal villages from being submerged. But her dogged agitation has led to Japan and the World Bank withdrawing from financing the dam. Indeed, she […]

Are Indian brand names, technologies and designs going to be crushed by economic liberalisation? Will Indian companies become appendages of global giants? So far, we have striven to develop our own technologies and brand names. For decades we \’sneeped at

SOME people ask me why, at a time when there are doubts whether the Prime Minister and h is economic policies will survive, I devoted last week\’s Swaminomics to Karl Marx. One reason is that I have little new to

TEN years ago, the finest brains in the world debated Karl Marx\’s ideas on the occasion of his 19th death anniversary. It is now his 175th birth anniversary, but he ignored as a 19th century fossil. With the collapse of

TEN years ago, the finest brains in the world debated Karl Marx\’s ideas on the occasion of his 19th death anniversary. It is now his 175th birth anniversary, but he ignored as a 19th century fossil. With the collapse of

JOURNALISTS often repeat the old joke that India has many sick industries but very few sick industrialists. There are cases where it is so profitable to run a sick industry that the owner positively radiates good health. As long as

For those labouring under the illusion; that Mr Narasmiha Rao is really serious about liberalising the Indian economy, a look at the proposed privatisation of Indian Iron and Steel Co (IISCO) will prove sobering. Staggering under accumulated losses of Rs

Do you believe that the world economic system is biased against the poor countries and in favour of the rich? Then listen to the latest IMF estimate that the seven richest countries (G-7) will grow much more slowly than third

The demonstration by leftist trade unions in the capital last week was aimed mainly at the proposed change in the Industrial Relations Act. Today workers cannot be retrenched save with government permission (which is rarely given) in companies having over

ONE reason for the sharp rise in grain prices that has hit the poor in the last three years is the stagnation of cereal production, particularly so in the case of wheat. And one important reason for this arrest in