Through this series of articles Prof. Jos Chathukulam argues that the public finance envisioned by J C Kumarappa needs to be seriously take into consideration by the modern-day public finance experts and economists in India. Rethinking public finance is required...
The first of this article series revisits public finance in India through the economic philosophy of J. C. Kumarappa, arguing for its renewed relevance in contemporary policy debates. It contends that achieving a truly sustainable Viksit Bharat by 2047 requires...
If Part One traced how secular reason emerged as a legal solution to the moral crisis of colonial conquest, this second part of the article by Asokakumar V follows that logic into the present. It examines how a form of...
Modern violence rarely announces itself as cruelty. It arrives clothed in the language of reason, law, and humanitarian necessity. This article by Asokakumar V traces how that language was forged, not in the Enlightenment, but in the crucible of colonial...
We are living in an age of obscene inequality. A world that produces unimaginable wealth denies even basic dignity to millions. While a tiny elite hoards income, land, and power, the majority are pushed into insecurity and silence. This article...
In this concluding part of the interview, based on his book The Caste Con Census, Anand Teltumbde examines how Hindutva politics and neoliberal capitalism jointly stabilise caste inequality by depoliticising it, one through cultural homogenisation, the other through market rationality....
In this second part of the interview, Anand Teltumbde argues that caste inequality in India persists not because of a lack of data, but because social justice has been reduced to managerial fixes detached from universal welfare and redistribution. He...
This article by Dr Madhusudan Nag examines the lynching of Ram Narayan Baghel in Kerala as a symptom of a deeper crisis in India’s internal migration regime. Moving beyond the language of welfare and labour protection, it exposes how caste,...
In this first part of the interview, Anand Teltumbde revisits the historical and political foundations of caste, challenging reductionist explanations that locate it solely in Brahminism. Drawing on his recent book, The Caste Con Census, he examines caste as a...
This article by K. T. Rammohan reflects on the life and political–intellectual journey of T. G. Jacob (1951–2022)—activist, editor of Mass Line, and a Marxist political economist whose work consistently challenged academic enclosure, party bureaucratism, and the ideology of development....
