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Mishra: India under the grip of neoliberalism
Znet Article, March, 18 2012
Girish Mishra
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Even though neoliberal dispensation has collapsed all over the world, its votaries in the corridors of power in India are behaving like the proverbial boy on the burning deck.
Mishra: Saramago's Candid Comments
Znet Article, February, 12 2012
Girish Mishra
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Saramago's ideas and work
Mishra: NGOs in India
Znet Article, January, 08 2012
Girish Mishra
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Two years ago, in 2009-10, there were around 3.3 million NGOs working in India. In other words, there was one NGO for less than 400 inhabitants, and several times more than the numbers of elementary schools and primary health centres.
Mishra: Nehru in the Era of Collapsing Neo-liberalism
Znet Article, November, 10 2011
Girish Mishra
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All over the world, neoliberal dispensation is collapsing.
Mishra: Destroying Nehru
Znet Article, May, 01 2011
Girish Mishra
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Ever since Jawaharlal Nehru’s entry into Indian politics, there have been continuous attacks not only on his ideas and outlook but also on his personal and private life.
Mishra: State of Indian Economy
Znet Article, March, 07 2011
Girish Mishra
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In accordance with the established tradition, Government of India has come out with its annual review of the economy, entitled Economic Survey 2010-11. Even a cursory glance at it reveals that it is different from preceding surveys.
Mishra: India and the Washington Consensus
Znet Article, January, 27 2011
Girish Mishra
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Ever since 1967, the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture has been organized almost every year in the month of November at Teen Murti House by the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund.
Mishra: When Extremes Meet
Znet Article, August, 01 2010
Girish Mishra
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The growth of Naxalites … is only more evidence of total breakdown of the delivery of public goods to the poor.
Mishra: Indian Economy: Where Do We Go From Here?
Znet Article, March, 01 2010
Girish Mishra
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As in the past, this year, too, a detailed report on the performance of the Indian economy during the current year was laid before Parliament and the people prior to presentation of the Union Budget for the coming fiscal year so that a meaningful ...
Mishra: Gandhi's Champaran Struggle
Znet Article, January, 31 2010
Girish Mishra
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Even after more than nine decades, there are certain aspects that need to be taken note of because they throw light on Gandhi's style of working.
Mishra: Jharkand
Znet Article, December, 24 2009
Girish Mishra
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As far as natural resources like minerals, land and water are concerned, Jharkhand is among the richest states of India.
Mishra: On India’s Union Budget
Znet Article, July, 27 2009
Girish Mishra
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Undoubtedly, the Union budget 2009-10, presented by finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee, to Lok Sabha on July 6, has disappointed certain sections here and abroad that had been expecting India to go in for the Washington Consensus-based economic re...
Mishra: Indian Economy 2008-09
Znet Article, July, 08 2009
Girish Mishra
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A recently published study “India 2039 - an affluent society in one generation†emphasizes that India's wealth gap is sure to threaten its growth.
Mishra: Is Nehru Coming Back?
Znet Article, May, 20 2009
Girish Mishra
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The return of Nehruvian approach seems to be a strong probability.
Mishra: On the G-20 Summit
Znet Article, April, 08 2009
Girish Mishra
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Whether the decisions of the recently held London Summit of G-20 will provide a way out of the present worldwide depression is not certain, one thing, however, is crystal clear: Thatcher-Reagan approach based on Mises-Hayek-Friedman thinking has b...
Mishra: Identity and Politics in Eastern India
Znet Article, March, 22 2009
Girish Mishra
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Review of: Community and Nation: Essays on Identity and Politics in Eastern India by Papiya Ghosh; Oxford University Press, New Delhi; 2008; pp. xxii+228; Rs 595.
Mishra: The Collapse of Make-believe World
Znet Article, January, 22 2009
Girish Mishra
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The leader of the Chicago School, the Nobel laureate Milton Friedman had claimed, time and again, that the Great Depression would have been prevented if the Federal Reserve had liberally increased the supply of liquidity.
Mishra: The Credit Card Dragnet
Znet Article, January, 16 2009
Girish Mishra
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In Economics, by ‘money’, we mean anything that is accepted for clearing a debt.
Mishra: India's Puzzled Vendors of Washington Consensus
Znet Article, October, 21 2008
Girish Mishra
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Ever since the crisis originating on Wall Street has spread far and wide like a contagion, the clamour for state intervention to save the global economy in general and financial institutions in particular has become vociferous.
Mishra: Karl Polanyi and Globalization
Znet Article, October, 09 2008
Girish Mishra
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If one wants to understand the real nature of ongoing globalization, based on the Washington Consensus and its impending fate, one needs to turn to Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation, published in 1944.
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.
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...
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...
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 ...
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: 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 ...
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...
