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Ha-Joon Chang, the Cambridge economist, holds that ‘95% of economics is common sense, made to look difficult, with the use of jargons and mathematics’. That may explain why common people engage less with matters of finance. Governments announce new projects, schemes and programs involving large spending of public money, all...

Jai Sen 1 A working document - for discussion, critique, and revisions ! ‘Housing’, which is a familiar word to all those in struggle, is an age-old arena of struggle for all labouring and working people, both in urban and rural areas, all over India and in all countries of...

With the formal process of selection of a new World Bank President kick-starting in a week’s time, it’s imperative to have a view beyond this selection, now that the dust of Jim Kim’s sudden resignation has settled down. That the process of this selection should be transparent and inclusive goes...

COME TO THE NARMADA VALLEY – June 13-14 / Violence continues against Fanaa in Gujarat / Key 15 June meeting in Delhi on evictions / MoEF orders stoppage of work on Maheshwar dam NARMADA Baroda * Urgent: COME TO THE NARMADA VALLEY – June 13-14 (NBA Baroda, June 10) * Sardar Sarovar project: panel probe...

NBA Convention on ‘Myths, Lies and the Narmada Betrayal’ / The Oversight Group’s survey of SSP may prove a mere ploy’ / Attack on Office of Mahesh Bhatt Condemned / Hunger Fast Starts in US * NBA Convention on ‘Myths, Lies and the Narmada Betrayal’ on Sunday 18th June 2006 (NBA...

Medha Patkar, 100 others detained / Medha Patkar alleges conspiracy to crush NBA / The struggles of the poor against unjust displacement will only increase / Crucial national strategy meeting on displacement and development NARMADA Baroda * Medha Patkar, 100 others detained (The Hindu, June 20) * Medha Patkar and Others Arrested While Seeking...

A paper for a presentation to be made in Panel One, ‘The Long March of 50 Year People’s Movement : The Works of Muto Ichiyo’, on Day One of the 2005 IACS Conference ‘Emerging Inter-Asian? Subjectivities in Cultural Movements’, sponsored by Inter-Asian? Cultural Studies and hosted by the Korean National University of...

On Incivility and Transnationality : Towards Alliances of Critical Hope Steps towards critically engaging with Muto Ichiyo’s concept of transborder participatory democracy Part 1 | Part 2 Equally, and despite some change during the Mumbai edition in 2004, this is also startlingly true of the World Social Forum, despite the fact that...

Preliminary report of the All India Fact Finding Team on the Nandigram Massacre Medha Patkar (NBA & National Alliance of Peoples' Movements), D Thankappan (New Trade Union Initiative), Dr. B. D. Sharma (Bharat Jan Andolan), and others, April 8 2007 Begin forwarded message: From: medha@narmada.org Date: 8 April 2007 7:17:02 PM GMT+05:45...

The power of civility SOME CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY A paper for the Committee on Civil Society Research in Sweden coming out of the seminar ‘Global Civil Society : More or Less Democracy?’ organised by the Committee at the World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, on January 22...