Articles by: KV Biju

Indian farmers interest has been surrendered to the US to ensure G20 success

Indian farmers interest has been surrendered to the US to ensure G20 success

As part of the ongoing discussion between India and US on the sideline of the G20 meetings in 2023, both countries agreed to resolve their outstanding  dispute at the World Trade Organization (WTO). From June 2023 to September 8, 2023 , there was lot off meeting and agreements. There was no comment or statement from Indian side, but Katherine Tai,[Read More…]

by 16/09/2023 Comments are Disabled India
Black money: Some plain questions to Gurumurthy and Ajith Doval

Black money: Some plain questions to Gurumurthy and Ajith Doval

Once in 2010, I visited Vivekananda International Foundation, the New Delhi-based think tank founded by Ajit Doval, the present National Security Advisor and one of the most powerful men in the country. As an anti-corruption activist interested in learning about the foundation’s anti-black money campaign, I had an appointment with Doval, who headed the think tank at the time. However,[Read More…]

by 21/07/2023 Comments are Disabled India
Time for India and other developing nations to quit WTO

Time for India and other developing nations to quit WTO

The 12th ministerial conference (MC12) of the World Trade Organization will take place from June 12, 2022 at Geneva, Switzerland.The negotiation note distributed on the different issues on the agenda shows that the WTO is a developed countries’ club. Developing and least developed countries will be the losers if they align with this organization. The WTO and Free Trade Agreements [Read More…]

by 25/11/2021 Comments are Disabled Globalisation
Corporatization of agri and retail trade will cause huge employment crisis

Corporatization of agri and retail trade will cause huge employment crisis

When we hear of “economic reform”, we think of policies that might make for greater growth and efficiency. However, what we often get is liberalization, privatization and globalization, all of which are aimed at facilitating large corporate players. The World Trade Organization (WTO) and Free Trade Agreements are not negotiated so much by sovereign nations as corporate interests. Farmers, workers[Read More…]

by 24/09/2021 Comments are Disabled India
Protest in Barnala on May 26th  by BKU(Ugrahan)

Modi government’s economic policies pose an existential threat to backward communities that must be resisted

The present government’s aggressive push for privatisation, corporatisation and automation – deviously dubbed ‘economic reforms’ – is undoing the gains made backward communities in recent decades, and must be resisted at all costs. ‘Economic reforms’ – it’s a catchphrase that India’s media pundits have repeated for three decades like a mantra, a sleight of hand meant to suggest that these[Read More…]

by 28/07/2021 1 comment Globalisation
Central acts will facilitate corporates

Central acts will facilitate corporates

Draft prepared ahead of round of talks scheduled for December 29, 2020   Note from the editor: In a recent response to an RTI plea filed by Jatin Desai, the central government revealed that it had no record of meetings or discussions with farmer associations ahead of finalizing the three new farm laws. The farmers on protest, however, seem deeply conscientious[Read More…]

by 28/12/2020 Comments are Disabled India
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