The Economy of Genocide
Excerpts from the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 by Francesca Albanese. The report titled From Economy of Occupation to Economy of...
A Quick Glance through the Financial Stability Report 2025
As the Reserve Bank of India celebrates the “resilience” of India’s financial system in its latest Financial Stability Report (June 2025), this briefing cuts through the celebratory tone to examine the deeper, often concealed,...
THE GREAT EXTINCTION: TRUMP & THE THREAT OF CLIMATE COLLAPSE
In the context of an accelerating ecological crisis, the fourth webinar in the Political Economy of the Trump Era series, examined how climate collapse is being politically manufactured, seen most visibly through the return...
International Financial Institutions Under Trump: Perspectives from India and the Global South.
As one grappled with the madness to get to the method, the questions around the fate of the financial institutions like IMF, World Bank etc has many curious. Amid the intensifying crises of debt,...
Time of Monsters: Fascism and the Fusion of the State and the Corporation
Musk & Trump From the bonhomie to the fallout & beyond In the context of growing authoritarianism and deepening corporate capture, the second webinar in the series The Political Economy of the Trump Era,...
Burning Waste,Warming cities?
Waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration and urban heat in Delhi. Heatwaves, which are a period of unusually high temperatures as compared to what is normally expected over a region, are increasingly posing a serious threat to...
The Tariff Wars: India & the Global South in a Fragmenting System of World Trade
Amidst rapidly shifting geopolitical shifts, the first webinar in the series The Political Economy of the Trump Era, titled ‘The Tariff Wars: India and the Global South in a Fragmenting System of World Trade’...
Critique on the Draft Framework for India’s Climate Finance Taxonomy
The Government of India’s Ministry of Finance released the draft framework for India’s Climate Finance Taxonomy on 7 May 2025. The draft framework discusses the country’s climate goals and commitments, including Nationally Determined Contributions...
Waste Incineration-Zero Pollution or Zero Truth?
A report on the alarmingly high levels of heavy metal contamination and other violations by the waste incinerator In Manali, Chennai. An incinerator is basically a furnace for burning waste. The “green” incinerator in...
Tata Mundra: A Project Awaiting Settlement
Tata Mundra Project (Coastal Gujarat Power Limited – CGPL – a subsidiary of Tata Power), is a 4,000 megawatt power plant developed on over 1250 hectares of land near the village Tunda-Wand, in Kutch...
Vadhavan Port: A Development Mirage at the Cost of People and Ecology?
A ₹76,220 crore mega-port in Maharashtra is being pushed under Sagarmala, threatening fishers, farmers, and Adivasis in Palghar.
State of PSUs in Oil Refining and Petrochemicals
Critical analysis of the operations and eco-social impact of oil and gas public sector enterprises.
Maharashtra State Budget 2024-25 | An Analysis
Budget Allocation Analysis Based on % of Total Expenditure This analysis reviews the annual budget distribution of Maharashtra’s Tribal Component Scheme (TCS) across crucial sectors impacting tribal communities from 2020-21 to the projected budget...
The Ostrich Budget: An Analysis of the Union Budget 2025-26
A reading of the budget and the Economic Survey is a crucial exercise to understand the direction that the economy is taking. It gives a sense of how responsive is a government to the...
The Budget India Needs
A People’s Blueprint for the 2025-26 Budget! At the threshold of the 2025 budget, the vitals of the economy are causing alarm to those who are bothered to look beyond the hyperbole and manufactured...
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