Antara Haldar

Jan 6, 2025 | countercurrents.org | Prem Singh |Bhabani Nayak |Antara Haldar |Bruce Lerro

1If we look at the journey of neoliberalism/privatisation in India for the last three and a half decades, we find that the game has been completely in the hands of neo-liberals. Now it can be said without any ifs and buts that corporations, through neoliberal consensus, rule the present India (not the Constitution; the Constitution has become a mere object of quarrelling debates). Team-Modi has also declared that they are not only privatising but corporatizing the system.

Dec 30, 2024 | project-syndicate.org | Antara Haldar

en English Economics Five years ago, a novel coronavirus was quietly spreading, already well on its way to causing a global pandemic that would expose deep vulnerabilities in the prevailing global economic model. Yet most of the lessons from that period have already been forgotten, leaving the world woefully unprepared for the next crisis.

Dec 11, 2024 | project-syndicate.org | Antara Haldar

en English Culture America’s legal order has met its match in President-elect Donald Trump, who has consistently escaped accountability for his crimes and now enjoys near-total impunity. If the rule of law is to survive, it must have a say about what is and is not just, rather than merely recognizing as valid whatever is legislated. CAMBRIDGE – Kamala Harris was not alone in suffering a decisive loss in the 2024 US presidential election.

Nov 6, 2024 | omanobserver.om | Antara Haldar

Each autumn, a telephone call from Stockholm launches one or a few scholars to international fame with the bestowal of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences—a process that Irving Wallace dramatised in his 1962 potboiler The Prize. This year, the call went to three renowned figures: economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and political scientist James A. Robinson from the University of Chicago.

Nov 4, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Antara Haldar |Vikas Meshram |Bhabani Nayak |Ariel Gold

CAMBRIDGE – Each fall, a telephone call from Stockholm launches one or a few scholars to international fame with the bestowal of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences – a process that Irving Wallace dramatized in his 1962 potboiler The Prize. This year, the call went to three figures who are already well-known, the economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the political scientist James A. Robinson of the University of Chicago.