Archives for 30th July 2016

Bookshelf

The Great Derangement: Conversations with Amitav Ghosh – 2

30th July 2016

Acclaimed novelist Amitav Ghosh‘s non-fiction take on climate change and our collective inability to acknowledge its danger – titled The Great Derangement – has been hailed as a landmark, which promises to change the conversation around this crucial issue. In this series, we’re re-publishing interviews which feature the writer at his forceful and articulate best….

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Consumerism/Lifestyle

25 years of ‘economic reforms’: The myth of growth

C.P. Chandrasekhar writes: Even the kind of economic growth that liberalisation actually delivered is proving unsustainable.  So, the belief that growth would remain high for years to come, delivering benefits even to those at the bottom of the income pyramid and those steeped in poverty and deprivation, has now revealed itself to be a myth….

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