India

The farcical Rupees (INR) 20 trillion ($265 billion) stimulus package

29 June 2020 - by Sankha Subhra Biswas

While the whole world is suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic with more than 10 million people affected by it, the economic crisis is more acute than ever. As a response, the governments of the developed as well as the developing countries came up with several financial stimulus to stabilize (...)
The downward journey of stock markets, repurchase of shares and the story of fictitious capital

12 May 2020 - by Sankha Subhra Biswas

A severe crisis has gripped the world financial markets since early March 2020 and needless to say, India has not escaped this onslaught. The Indian stock markets are unable to halt this deep slide. On certain days the markets shows some strength but it keeps falling once again in the next (...)
Coronavirus, fictitious capital and financial crisis

25 April 2020 - by Sankha Subhra Biswas

The world has seen a spectre of corona virus! This deadly virus has already affected 2.84 million people with a death toll of almost two hundred thousand around the world. The number of people affected in India are 24,942 out which 779 persons have expired, as on April 25, 2020. Nevertheless, (...)
Class Struggle, Environment and the Corona Virus Pandemic

22 April 2020 - by Kunal Chattopadhyay

The Corona virus threat has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation. How not to respond to it from the left is easily seen, by apparently leftist posts circulating in social media (Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter), which suddenly wake up to how many people die because of hunger, (...)
As the World Bank Puts Aside Past Wisdom on Public Spending, Will Sri Lanka Pay Heed?

20 April 2020 - by Ahilan Kadirgamar, Devaka Gunawardena

The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the way we think about the world. Even neoliberal global institutions must reckon with the changes. The World Bank’s South Asia Focus Report on the impact of COVID-19 on South Asian economies that was released a week ago marks a major shift in its policy (...)
Le défaut de paiement de dette de Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) : Privatiser les profits, socialiser les pertes ?

31 décembre 2019 - par Sushovan Dhar

Même lorsque l’effondrement de Lehman Brothers a secoué l’ensemble du monde financier, les élites politiques indiennes et la classe capitaliste étaient tout à fait convaincues que la contagion ne se propagerait pas à l’Inde. Il est vrai que les banques et les institutions financières indiennes n’ont pas (...)
How Is The Agrarian Distress In Maharashtra Affecting Women

23 December 2019 - by Manjima Misra

The plight of farm widows remains underreported due to lack of data, dearth of special focus on the gendered dimension of agrarian distress, policy paralysis and apathy of government. Women from suicide affected agricultural households suffer on multiple levels due to the burden of overwhelming (...)
Alert on the sophistication of illegitimate debt techniques via mobile telephony

8 November 2019 - by Eric Toussaint

In the era of widespread mobile telephony, we witnessed certain capitalist firms employing a sophistication of techniques to ensure the illegitimate debt of the lower classes. Kenya, a country of 50 million people, is considered to be at the forefront of mobile telephony and digitalisation. (...)
Corporate debt: the catalyst for the next crisis in India?

30 June 2019 - by Sushovan Dhar

According to IHS Markit, a London based information provider, India is going to overtake the UK, its former colonial ruler, to become the world’s fifth largest economy this year and is projected to outdo Japan to feature at the second position in the Asia-Pacific region by 2025. Modi’s (...)
India and the Colonial Debt

4 April 2019 - by Sushovan Dhar

The English East India Company, as is well known, obtained, besides the political rule in India, the exclusive monopoly of the tea-trade, as well as of the Chinese trade in general, and of the transport of goods to and from Europe. But the coasting trade of India and between the islands, as (...)
The US Supreme Court Judgment: A Challenge to World Bank’s unfettered immunity

31 March 2019 - by Sushovan Dhar

The verdict is finally out. On 27 February, in a historic 7-1 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that international organizations like the World Bank Group are not above immunity and can be sued in US courts. This was in response to a case (Budha Ismail Jam, et al., (...)
The Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) Debt Default: Privatize Profits, Socialize Losses?

15 January 2019 - by Sushovan Dhar

Even when the Lehman Brothers collapse shook the entire financial world, the Indian political elites and the capitalist class were quite confident that the contagion would not spread to India. True, the Indian banks and financial institutions did not weather similar tsunamis as their Western (...)
How Britain stole $45 trillion from India

31 December 2018 - by Jason Hickel

There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the colonisation of India - as horrible as it may have been - was not of any major economic benefit to Britain itself. If anything, the administration of India was a cost to Britain. So the fact that the empire was sustained for so long - (...)
Japanese Investor’s (JICA) Guidelines Violated in the Mumbai - Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Project (MAHSR)

20 August 2018 - by Krishnakant, Rohit Prajapati

The Japanese Government’s investment agency, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is signatory to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Government for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Project (MAHSR), popularly known as the ‘Bullet Train Project’. There are two (...)
India: Bullet Train – Train with ‘Bullets’ i.e. ‘A Symbol of Violence, Absolute Force’

16 August 2018 - by Krishnakant, Rohit Prajapati

Our First Few Bullet Questions to the Modi Government: - Why is MoEF&CC absent while a foreign government agency is participating in Environmental Consultation? - Ongoing Consultation accepts the need for environmental concerns. Then, why the Environment Laws of India and MoEF&CC have (...)
Report on CADTM activities in Sri Lanka and India, 6 - 19 April 2018

15 May 2018 - by Eric Toussaint

Several articles were published in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese on the CADTM website; they focused on the successful 7th regional workshop of CADTM South Asia, that was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 6 to 8 April 2018. As Nathan Legrand writes in his article, “Around forty (...)
Éric Toussaint: “There is a disposition in the world’s masses for radical left proposals”

7 May 2018 - by Eric Toussaint

On 16 April 2018, Éric Toussaint was invited to speak about the role of the central banks and the banking sector at a seminar organised by Sampreeti – Sanskriti, a cultural association linked to the All India Reserve Bank Employees Association (AIRBEA, the main trade union of the Indian central (...)
India: Thriving Usury in Tirunelveli

23 April 2018 - by S. Aadhirai

The recent self-immolation of a family in Tamil Nadu drew widespread attention to the issue of usury prevalent in the state. Following a hearing on the depositions of 60 borrower victims at a people’s tribunal in Tirunelveli district, an attempt has been made to examine the nature of the issue, (...)
Crony capitalism looms large on the Indian banking horizon

18 April 2018 - by Sushovan Dhar

The $1.77 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam, possibly the biggest financial chicanery to have hit the Indian banking sector, is rocking the nation. Perpetrated by a diamond tycoon in collusion with bank officials, defrauding India’s second largest bank in such a manner seems astonishing. (...)
The bullet train project in India: a story of white elephant and public debt

27 November 2017 - by Sushovan Dhar

We are a happy nation waiting to ride the bullet train... The Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (MAHSR), connecting these major metropolis in western India, is soon to be built with Japanese finance and assistance. The Japanese PM Shinzo Abe and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi jointly (...)
Farmers storm India’s national capital, demanding freedom from debt and better price for their produce

24 November 2017 - by La Via Campesina

Several thousand small-holder farmers from across India held a massive demonstration in New Delhi, from 20-21 November to draw attention to the acute agrarian distress plaguing the countryside and seeking immediate intervention by the Union Government. Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha and South (...)
Judge Declares World Bank Immunity Cases “Wrongly Decided”; Indian Plaintiffs Ask D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to Review “Absolute Immunity” Doctrine

30 August 2017 - by EarthRights International

After a federal judge declared that cases giving the World Bank Group “absolute immunity” from lawsuits were “wrongly decided,” communities represented by EarthRights International (ERI) have filed a petition asking the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to revisit its immunity doctrine. In June, a (...)
The unbearable burden of being an Indian farmer : shot dead for demanding debt relief

19 June 2017 - by Sushovan Dhar

A nondescript district in the centre of this vast country has suddenly become a most sought after destination for politicians and media people. Lamentably, this transformation has come at the cost of human lives. Farmers in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh started their protests since June 1 (...)
Time to dump greed for need

11 June 2017 - by Suresh Seshadri

A political scientist explains how banks and governments across the world are colluding to enlarge public debt For a country whose most famous son M.K. Gandhi once said, “The world has enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed,” India’s contemporary banking sector crisis (...)
Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Illegitimate Private Debt in the global South

26 April 2017 - by Eric Toussaint

The “debt system” is gathering steam In Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, just as in the highly industrialized countries, after going through several fundamental changes over the past 40 years. Mainly since the outbreak of the Third World debt crisis in the early 1980s. Austerity (...)