Prabir Purkayastha

Nov 23, 2024 | nationalheraldindia.com | Prabir Purkayastha

China installed 425GW of new solar power. The rest of the world installed only 162GW, with the US accounting for a measly 33GWCOP29, the UN Climate Change Conference, was held in Baku, Azerbaijan between 11 and 22 November. It took place under the shadow of significant temperature rises across the globe. It also took place in the wake of the US electing Donald Trump, a president who, among other things, is also a climate change denier and unlikely to accept any global consensus at COP29.

Sep 26, 2024 | newsclick.in | Prabir Purkayastha

Renowned political scientist and analyst Professor Jayadeva Uyangoda and NewsClick's Prabir Purkayastha discuss the recent presidential election in Sri Lanka. Renowned political scientist and analyst Professor Jayadeva Uyangoda and NewsClick's Prabir Purkayastha discuss the recent presidential election in Sri Lanka. Prof Uyangoda talks about the implications of Anura Dissanayake's victory, the evolution of his political positions, and the challenges before him.

Sep 5, 2024 | mronline.org | Prabir Purkayastha

ON Independence Day—August 15th—we generally take stock of the path we have travelled since 1947. Today, I will take a different tack and focus on how or why a handful of European countries end up controlling major parts of the world. Before the rise of colonial empires, India and China were the biggest economies in the world. That is not surprising, as probably 90 per cent of the world’s economy was in agriculture.

Sep 5, 2024 | mronline.org | Prabir Purkayastha

THE impact of the West’s encounter with the Americas was devastating for its people. The population of the Americas before Europe’s “discovery” has been estimated to be anything between 2 to 100 million people. The figures of genocide also depend not only on different estimates of the Indigenous population of the Americas but also on what numbers should be excluded in the counting of victims of genocide.

Aug 28, 2024 | monthlyreview.org | Prabir Purkayastha

Keeping Up the Good Fight is the story of a young man’s political coming of age and his experience as a student activist and scientist incarcerated by two authoritarian regimes in India, half a century apart. On September 25, 1975, the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi called for a strike to protest the expulsion of Ashoklata Jain, an elected student union member. Three months earlier, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had declared a state of Emergency.