Climate Crisis: Our Collective Delusions
It’s apparent; Climate extremes are real. The last six years have been the hottest years on record. Megafires, polar melting, very severe cyclonic storms and other extreme weather events made…
K Sahadevan
A Journey into the Unfamiliar Future
‘Runaway climate change (1) is not just a technical term in climatology, but a profound reflection of the catastrophic crisis we have reached. In recent years, India is experiencing a…
‘Economic Man’ at the Crossroads
“Anyone with a sense of history would have realized that the hubristic attempt to make the world into a frontier- and culture- free single market would end in tears''; this…
Debunking the Myths
Book Review - Economyths: 11 Ways Economics Gets it Wrong By David Orrel At the beginning of the year, Bloomberg.com predicted that 2008 would be a year of prosperity, based…
Capitalist Philanthropy: A Means of Circumventing the State?
On March 13, 2019, Azim Premji, Chairman of Wipro Limited and the third richest man in India (according to the Hurun India Rich List1) made an unusual announcement. The announcement…
The Bell is tolling; Are you listening, Growth maniacs?! Economy of Development Vs Economy of Permanence
Kenneth E Boulding, an English-American economist and an interdisciplinary philosopher once said; “Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or…
Undeclared Ecological Warfare: The India-China dispute, a ‘biopsy’ analysis
We understand war through the sound of bullets and the sight of dead bodies of soldiers. If someone asks the people of the border areas, many facets of the war…
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