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Shining and starving
Praful BidwaiUnder neoliberalism, income and regional disparities have got bloated to a point where the country's rich and the poor live in two separate worlds.read more
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Pro-poor water management: community participation and ownership
Water Justice report from World Water Week Day 4 Satoko Kishimoto‘Pro-poor urban water provision’ was a big theme at World Water Week in Stockholm this year. But what is pro-poor water provision, in...
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Durban and the climate change deniers
Praful BidwaiThe EU could play a valuable role in preventing another flawed climate deal if it neutralises the US and brings other ditherers on board while starting talks on future obligations for the...
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Durban’s greenwash outcome
Praful BidwaiThe outcome of Durban is a disaster for global climate protection and the survival of millions. read more
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MultimediaSorry, you need to install flash to see this content.Praful Bidwai talks to DemocracyNow!'s Amy Goodman in Durban during the climate conference about the state of the climate...
View ArticleThe Politics of Climate change and the Global crisis
Praful BidwaiIn his book Bidwai addresses the impacts of climate change and the politics of the international climate negotiations; and second, lndia as an example of an 'emerging economy' major...
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Praful BidwaiInstead of imposing nuclear power upon unwilling people, India should join the renewables revolution for handsome gains. read more
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Where The Air Is Rarefied
Review of The Politics Of Climate Change And The Global Crisis: Mortgaging Our Future Darryl D'Monte The most comprehensive analysis of climate change, which tackles India’s (mostly flawed)...
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Wholesale disaster in retail trade
Praful BidwaiImagine a society where 80 percent of all grocery sales are monopolised by just five giant retailers like Walmart, Tesco and Carrefour, locally grown fresh food is largely replaced by...
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The Other Burma
Conflict, counter-insurgency and human rights in Northeast India Ben HayesNortheast India's strategic location between India, China and southeast Asia has led to a recent boom in resource extraction...
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Future Perspectives for the Mainstream Indian Left
Achin VanaikAfter the last 2009 elections the parliamentary left has clearly suffered so serious a defeat that it would not be out of place to describe the current situation as one of crisis. How does...
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‘Respect Gandhi If You Will, Don’t Sentimentalise Him’
Praful Bidwai Interviews Perry Anderson Praful BidwaiThe Indian Ideology, is a scathing critique of the dominant celebratory discourse of the Idea of India, or the lionising of the democratic...
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Corrective to Dominant Discourse on Growth and Development
Achin VanaikBookreview of Growth, Inequality and Social Development in India: Is Inclusive Growth Possible?read more
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India’s fading regional influence: Falling between two stools
Praful BidwaiIndia’s neighbourhood is in great turmoil, but New Delhi seems unable to fashion a coherent, balanced, mature and self-confident response to it. In particular, India has dealt with Sri...
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Tax the Rich
Lessons for India from the Human Development Report Praful BidwaiThe Human Development Report 2013 highlights the rise of the Global South as the main drivers of the world economy, but rapid economic...
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Nukes and India
On the wrong side of history? Praful BidwaiHave our rulers decided to place India on the wrong side of history and arrest her social progress? Going by their policy of forcibly promoting nuclear power...
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How rising inequality threatens our democracy
Praful Bidwai How rising inequality threatens our democracy India is becoming an increasingly inequitable, “rich-take-all”, pathological, society marked by exclusion and immobility, where an...
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Fusing Hindu nationalism with corporate power
The menace that is Modi Praful BidwaiTNI fellow Praful Bidwai warns that a BJP-led regime in India is likely to fuel communalism, discontinue pro-poor social programmes, and follow a brazenly...
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Capitalism = Rising Inequalities
Democracy under threat Praful BidwaiIt’s a sign of the pathology of much of India’s mainstream media that it displays the rise of the speculative-trader-industrialist Hinduja brothers to the top of...
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Land Grabbing: Perspectives from East and Southeast Asia
Call for papers A call for papers that offer rigorous and innovative analysis to continue deepening and broadening our understanding of global land deals – in specific regional context, with special...
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