PhD candidate in Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
Keralam/Delhi
Joined November 2013
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I write about how the consumption of tapioca provided interesting insights about poverty in 1970s Kerala, and its connections to what we now proudly call the Kerala model of development.
Read here:
alablog.in/issues/90/tapioca…
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Love these guys for challenging the Liberal/RW anti marxist discourse of Viswanathanan, Essence etc based on strawmans and false reductios.
There is a real need to challenge and claim back these "intellectual" spaces from the blinded anti communists.
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ICC എന്നത് അനിവാര്യതയാണ്.
സിപിഎം ഐസിസി രൂപീകരിച്ച് മാതൃക കാണിച്ചു.
പക്ഷേ മാധ്യമ വാർത്ത നോക്കൂ,
പീഡനം അന്വേഷിക്കാൻ കമ്മിറ്റി ഉണ്ടാക്കിയെന്ന്,
എന്ത് തോന്നിവാസമാണ് പറയണേ.
ഇവരിൽ നിന്ന് ഫെയർ പ്ലേയിംഗ് ഫീൽഡ് കിട്ടില്ല.
തച്ചുടക്കാൻ വരുന്നവരെ തിരിച്ചടിച്ച് തീർക്കണം,
അവരോട് കെഞ്ചരുത്.
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The @epw_in is an institution. But we do not know much of where it came from. This is an affectionate story by Alaknanda Patel of 'The Economic Weekly' , the forerunner of EPW, seen from close quarters. theindiaforum.in/history/sac… @TheIndiaForum
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The Preface to the Critique of Political Economy is just incredible. In a mere 3 paragraphs, Marx defines the single most powerful mode of analysis ever devised in human history. No word is wasted, no sentence unclear, no concept half baked. It's a work of art.
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There is no “objective” assumption in economics. You can either make assumptions based on the statu quo and describe them as a product of the “natural forces of markets” (which is a lie), or you can describe them as a political choice. Heterodox economists are doing the second.
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Hundreds of people marched from Bhai Vir Singh Marg to the ECI headquarters in New Delhi at the joint call of farmers’, workers’, women’s, youth and student organisations and civil society groups, demanding the removal and prosecution of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, halt to the SIR process, revocation of legal immunity for the Election Commission, and other demands.
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"This is a very important moment for Indian democracy"
Economist @Jayati1609 to @_sabahgurmat outside the Bangla Sahib gurdwara in central Delhi as protesters gather in 88 cities in 18 states in response to a call from 143 organisations, according to the website peopleagainstSIR.org
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Peter Thomas, the Marxist theorist best known for his work on Antonio Gramsci, has died.
He restored the political edge to Gramsci’s theory of hegemony and saw his own scholarship as part of the Left’s fight for power. jacobin.com/2026/10/peter-th…
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Jean Dreze writes on
"Long & short of SIR: What happens when exclusion is prioritised over inclusion" #SIR @roadscholarz
Read more at:
economictimes.indiatimes.com…
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Sure. But there are normative ideas underpinning mainstream (& heterodox) theories. A rigorous inquiry also needs to question that. Empirical economics, while helping, unfortunately, isn’t free from that bias either. Here is a piece I wrote on this:
epw.in/journal/2025/48/persp…
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my new paper out in Canadian Geographies, “Towards a Class Geography of Crisis” where I show how labour geography can better analyze labour, nature, and capital under planetary crisis.
read it here:
doi.org/10.1111/cag.70109
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17 DAYS OF RESISTANCE. STUDENT UNITY PREVAILS!
The administration has been compelled to respond favourably to the demands raised during JNUSU's 17-day hunger strike. A committee led by the Dean of the School of Social Sciences has issued a letter directing the revocation of rustication orders against five students, including JNUSU office-bearers and its president. Comrades Gopika and Abhinay are under emergency care at AIIMS.
Red Salute to SFI JNU and JNUSU. Wishing Comrades Gopika and Abhinay a speedy recovery. The struggle continues!
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A Legacy of Struggle: In Conversation with Subhashini Ali Part 1 deshabhimani.com/deshabhiman…
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On Dussehra, CPI(M) intensified its protest against CEC Gyanesh Kumar, burning his effigy outside AKG Bhavan in Delhi. Polit Bureau member Comrade Vijoo Krishnan, along with Comrade Brinda Karat and others, joined the protest, reaffirming the fight against forces undermining Indian democracy and electoral integrity.
#GyaneshKumarMustResign
"Shaikh’s lasting contribution was to give back economics its real object: capitalism as it actually moves through labour processes, competition, conflict and crisis, along with the courage and the tools to study it truthfully."
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"It is not just public health policies and medical interventions that aid in the subjugation of deviant bodies...living conditions, data centres, detention facilities, or war and genocide, debility and disability are constantly produced under capitalism
theleaflet.in/opinion/can-so…
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Excited
Knausgård said it couldn't be translated. Somebody had to try, anyway! My translation of Thure Erik Lund’s sprawling, unholy mess of a novel is upon us. Thanks to Thure Erik Lund, NORLA, @andothertweets, @nordicnovellas and so many others for paving the way.
