Haroon's devlog

This remarkable video, created by ActionAid India, highlights the struggles of adivasi people against land grabs in rural India. Their stru...

An excellent assessment of the Draft Political Resolution of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which highlights the extent to which it...

Jayoti Ghosh is one of the best heterodox development economists working today. Here is her recent prescription for equitably fixing the gl...

This is an excellent article by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen on India's social and economic performance in the 21st century. It was first...

A quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide in the last 16 years—an average of one suicide every 30 minutes. The crisis has...

From Jairus Banaji, this is a typically astute and erudite analysis of the Maoist insurgency in central India, written partly in response to...

An excellent article from The Hindu on how social inequality in access to mobile telephones in rural India mirrors social inequality in acc...

I have just read an excellent article by Arundhati Roy, the famed Indian novelist, entitled 'Walking with the comrades', in which sh...

Jyoti Basu, who was the longest-serving democratically-elected communist leader in the world, has died in Kolkata. For students of internat...