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Znet Article Mishra: Crisis on Wall Street and India

Znet Article, September, 27 2008 Girish Mishra
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Notwithstanding the soothing words of the Indian Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, Indian economy is in for a great deal of trouble.

Znet Article Mishra: Whither Washington Consensus?

Znet Article, July, 30 2008 Girish Mishra
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The ideological basis of the ongoing phase of globalization is 'Washington Consensus', which some people call as 'neo-liberalism' or 'market fundamentalism'. The Washington Consensus was propounded by John Williamson in 1990. It indicated a set of...

Znet Article Mishra: India: Rural Loan Waiver or Moral Hazard?

Znet Article, June, 26 2008 Girish Mishra
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For almost a decade or so, the news of suicides by debt-ridden farmers has been constantly hogging the headlines of Indian newspapers. These suicides have been taking place largely in relatively more advanced states like Punjab, Maharashtra, Andhr...

Znet Article Mishra: On Racism

Znet Article, May, 25 2008 Girish Mishra
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Racism takes different forms at different places and in different times, but, basically, it is an attitude or ideological stance that is divisive and anti-humanist. It does not take all the human beings to be equal, but divides the entire society ...

Znet Article Mishra: Gresham’s Law in Present day India

Znet Article, May, 19 2008 Girish Mishra
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If one looks at India’s post-Independence scenario in political, social, cultural, academic, literary, journalistic, religious or any other sphere, one comes across the phenomenon of the inferior elements pushing out, by and large, the superior co...

Znet Article Mishra: India's Belated, Yet Insufficient, Realization

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 Girish Mishra
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On the 8th of November, the Eleventh Five Year Plan was given and approved by the full meeting of the Indian Planning Commission, presided over by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, its ex-officio chairman. This document, now onwards, is supposed ...

Znet Article Mishra: Three Trillion Dollar War Review

Znet Article, April, 08 2008 Girish Mishra
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A period of more than five years has elapsed, yet there is no sign of freedom, democracy and prosperity as promised to the Iraqi people. In fact, the invasion and continued occupation has brought enormous devastation of this ancient country, nor h...

Znet Article Mishra: Economic Survey 2007-08

Znet Article, March, 02 2008 Girish Mishra
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Even a cursory glance at the Economic Survey 2007-08 is enough to convince that the process of replacing, nay, ridiculing Jawaharlal Nehru’s economic approach appears to be complete. Now, it is no longer Nehru’s but, Milton Friedman’s approach tha...

Znet Article Mishra: Increasing Prosperity, Growing Insecurity

Znet Article, February, 18 2008 Girish Mishra
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It is beyond dispute that, in recent decades, the prosperity of a large segment of the Indian middle and the upper classes has increased rapidly. With accelerating average annual rate of economic growth, these segments have cornered most of its fr...

Znet Article Mishra: Compassionate Tata

Znet Article, January, 31 2008 Girish Mishra
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Just like the prince of Kapilvastu, who renounced his kingdom and all the earthly comforts and wandered in search of a way out of human miseries arising from sickness, old age and death, Ratan Tata, too, became perturbed when he saw an average mid...

Znet Article Mishra: Neoliberalism and Fashionable Nonsense Galore

Znet Article, January, 14 2008 Girish Mishra
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Every era has its quota of nonsense, made fashionable by the powers-that-be. Recall the bygone days when it was asserted that the earth was stationary and the sun went round it. The Catholics held that Rome was the centre of the earth. Anyone that...

Znet Article Mishra: Whither Indian Constitution

Znet Article, December, 31 2007 Girish Mishra
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More than six decades have elapsed since India’s independence and almost fifty years of its becoming a republic. It is interesting to look back and see how far it has marched towards its declared goals.

Znet Article Mishra: Pakistan Under Military Capital

Znet Article, December, 14 2007 Girish Mishra
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We have quite often come across terms such as ‘mercantile capital’, ‘industrial capital’ and ‘finance capital’, but we have seldom heard of ‘military capital’. Our knowledge and understanding of it has been very limited. There are two main reasons...

Znet Article Mishra: Implications of Plutonomy

Znet Article, November, 28 2007 Girish Mishra
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Almost two years ago, Ajay Kapur, a prominent global strategist of the Citigroup and his two associates, Niall Macleod and Narendra Singh, came out with a paper

Znet Article Mishra: A Peep into Richistan

Znet Article, October, 09 2007 Girish Mishra
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People are acquainted with Hindustan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and so on. In the early years of the 1980s, 'Khalistan' was hotly discussed in India. Certain extremist elements in Punjab had started an agitation for a separate homeland of '...

Znet Article Mishra: The Peasant in Present day India

Znet Article, September, 20 2007 Girish Mishra
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Looking around, we find a great deal of confusion in present day India, especially in Hindi press, as regards 'peasant'. Quite often it is used interchangeably with 'farmer'. Technically, these two are different concepts with connotations of their...

Znet Article Mishra: Financialization in Globalized World

Znet Article, August, 24 2007 Girish Mishra
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It is really strange that, while there is a heated discussion on liberalization, neo-liberalism, privatization, etc., the most important dimension of globalization - financialization -- is almost completely ignored. Why this is done is a mystery. ...

Znet Article Mishra: Booming Market of Antiques

Znet Article, August, 07 2007 Girish Mishra
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In the West there has emerged a booming market in antiques, which include old idols, icons, coins, manuscripts, old books, paintings, etc. The volume of demand for them has been soaring at an ever-accelerated rate. To match this almost insatiable ...

Znet Article Mishra: Booming Market of Antiques

Znet Article, August, 01 2007 Girish Mishra
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In the West there has emerged a booming market in antiques, which include old idols, icons, coins, manuscripts, old books, paintings, etc. The volume of demand for them has been soaring at an ever-accelerated rate. To match this almost insatiable ...

Znet Article Mishra: Indian Socialists and Anti-Congressism

Znet Article, July, 31 2007 Girish Mishra
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Ever since Indian socialists parted company with the parent organization, the Indian National Congress (hereafter the Congress), and constituted themselves into a separate entity, a large segment of them has been afflicted with the virus of anti-C...

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