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  • India: Two 1983 articles that warned against fast breeder reactor programme

    by Praful Bidwai, 10 September 1999

    These two part articles were digitised for the sacw document archive from old papers of Praful Bidwai.

  • A Historical View of Economic Categories

    by Dilip Simeon, 5 November 1998

    The founder of neo-classical economics, Alfred Marshal, defined economics as the study of man “ in the ordinary business of life†. It is not surprising that he should have referred to life as a business - his choice of phrase is but an example of the uncritical ideological reflexes of capitalist society which characterizes much of ‘social science’. When we are urged to “Be Indian, Buy Indian†, is not ‘being’ equated with ‘buying’? When state policy is proclaimed as being neither Right or Left, but merely ‘Good for India’ (all states exult in patriotic virtue), does not this mystical abstraction serve as an ideological cloak for the accumulation of capital, as a mode of representing the interest of a part of society as its collective interest? Does it not serve to remind us that the very notion of the Good is tending towards global uniformity and subject to IMF approval? Dominant trends in social science treat as axioms such phrases as “ the productivity of Capital†, the “Good for the Nation†, the “Greatest Good of the greatest number†, the “ Growth of the economy†, etc. all of which serve to obfuscate still further the object of their investigations.

  • Polluting Industries, Environment and Workers’ Health: A Case for Intervention

    by Mukul Sharma, 6 September 1997
    [The Economic and Political Weekly->http://www.epw.in, Vol. 32, No. 35, August 30 - September 5, 1997,
    ... The case of M. C. Mehta vs. Union of India, popularly known as "Ganga Matters" ... for the first time establishes a noble principle: a polluting industry which damages the environment outside the factory, simultaneously creates havoc for the health of the workers inside the factory. Hence the industry has to pay the price of its pollution to the citizens, in general, and to sick  (...)

  • Urdu TV Programme: Najam Sethi explaining distortion of history in Pakistan and the region

    Prominent Pakistani journalist Najam Sethi explaining the distortion of history by Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi establishments.

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