Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India. Michael Levien. Oxford University Press. Reviewed by Dr. Nikhil Deb in the LSE Review of Books blog; used here by permission. In Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India, Michael Levien examines how the shift from state-directed capitalism to neoliberalism in India from the 1990s has led to […]
Who is Fauja Singh? Someone who started as a weakling in childhood, learning to walk only when he was 5 years old, but who went on to become the oldest person to complete a marathon. He broke many records in the process – including, repeatedly, his own. Finally, he became the first 100-year old to
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Review of Breaking Through by Vinay Sitapati at Scroll A financial journalist, the story goes, called up the residence of Montek Singh Ahluwalia, at the centre stage of economic policy from the 1980s to 2014. These were, not coincidentally, the growth years of the Indian economy, and Ahluwalia was the go to person for businessmen,
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“Pind” is the Punjabi word for “village”, and the Punjab is an area divided between India and Pakistan. The word “Punjab” means the land of five waters to signify the five rivers that run through it. PIND: Portrait of a Village in Rural Punjab is a self-published debut photobook, a labour of love, with photographs drawn
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The Gated Republic Review by Rama Bijapurkar Why we are the way we are. The stark commentary is an inquiry into India’s history and politics of public policy, and the anatomy of failure A European anthropologist observed in the 1990s that in India, people are thought of first as consumers and second as citizens and
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“Surviving Hell” is Nick Dunn’s account of his horrifying experience of injustice at the hands of India’s structures and functionaries. The book was published in hardback by Mirror Books (U.K.) in March, and will be published in paperback on September the 17th. Why has the book been chosen as the Book of the Month in
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