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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 '...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Mishra: New Maharajas in India
Znet Article, June, 27 2007
Girish Mishra
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With the change of era, the old people and classes occupying the positions of power and influence give way to new ones. This happened in England in the 17th century and in France after 1789 when capitalism began pushing out feudalism. During the f...
Mishra: Globalization
Znet Article, June, 19 2007
Girish Mishra
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Gone are the days when globalization based on Washington consensus was hailed as a new dawn in the history of mankind. It was claimed that the emergence of the New Economy would make business cycles ineffective, and people from Henry Kissinger to ...
Mishra: World Bank in Historical Perspective
Znet Article, May, 22 2007
Girish Mishra
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The World Bank, a prominent Western financial institution, has played a major role in the changed strategy of imperialism, pursued after the Second World War. This strategy has been known as Neocolonialism. One can hardly understand the role of th...
Mishra: Human Smuggling and Trafficking in era of Globalization
Znet Article, May, 06 2007
Girish Mishra
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The increasing incidents of human smuggling and trafficking in the wake of the arrest of an M.P. belonging to the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) have become a major topic of discussion and pontification in public forums in general and the media in pa...
Mishra: Wolfowitz at World Bank
Znet Article, April, 24 2007
Girish Mishra
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Whether Paul D. Wolfowitz remains at the helms of the affairs or is pushed out, the credibility of the World Bank is so dented that it can neither be restored easily nor very soon. The paradox is that the self-proclaimed crusader against corruptio...
Mishra: Reservations in Globalization Era
Znet Article, April, 07 2007
Girish Mishra
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The issue of reservations in both jobs, and admissions to institutes of learning is once again being hotly debated. Passions have been aroused and emotions for and against reservations are running high. Demonstrations have taken place and clarion ...
Mishra: Rising Wealth and Declining Poverty!
Znet Article, March, 25 2007
Girish Mishra
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It is not a mere coincidence that two reports from, seemingly, disconnected sources, have appeared in recent weeks. The first is: “The World’s Richest People†in the American magazine Forbes. Its list of 946 billionaires fr...
Mishra: Monetary Policy in the Era of Globalization
Znet Article, March, 14 2007
Girish Mishra
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Willingly or unwillingly, the Government of India has come out with a number of measures to control the rising tide of inflation. Among them are the instruments of monetary policy, wielded by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), country’s cent...


