Article Subjects and Geography: India
Sub-Imperialist India in Washington’s Anti-China “Pivot”
September 1, 2024
Bernard D’Mello describes India’s role as a collaborator in the U.S. anti-China Indo-Pacific project. This role, he elaborates, grows directly from the imperial/sub-imperial relationship between the United States and India, which manifests itself in border disputes, military exercises, diplomacy, economic ties, and more, has heightened hostilities in the Indo-Pacific region while benefiting the power elite of both countries.
How Microfinance Financializes Women
September 1, 2024
Reviewing Smitha Radhakrishnan’s Making Women Pay, Jingyi Zhang elucidates the exploitative practices of the much-vaunted microfinance industry, particularly as they apply to—and exacerbate—existing tensions within communities of women in India.
The Specter of ‘Knowledge as Commons’
March 1, 2024
Sam Popowich is a librarian at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. On October 3, 2023, in an egregious violation of press freedom, the founder of the progressive Indian media company… READ MORE
Hegemonic Femininity in Popular Culture: Heteronormative Appropriation of Lesbian Sexualities in Contemporary India through Neeraj Ghaywan’s ‘Geeli Pucchi’
January 1, 2024
Aratrika Bose is a PhD scholar in Gender Studies from CHRIST University, Bangalore, and is currently pursuing her thesis on the intersections of homosexuality and compulsory heterosexuality in modern India…. READ MORE
The Telecom Industry in India: Free Market or Monopoly-Finance Capital?
May 1, 2023
Rahul Varman is on the faculty of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, where he teaches and writes about corporations and the neoliberal order. The author is grateful to… READ MORE
The Bhima Koregaon Arrests and the Resistance in India
April 1, 2022
Saroj Giri teaches politics at the University of Delhi. It often happens: A murder takes place, an utterly foul one. But there is little outcry, no lasting sense of wrong… READ MORE
India’s Revolutionary Spiritual Urge: Bhagat Singh and the Naxalites
December 1, 2021
Bernard D’Mello is the author of India After Naxalbari (Monthly Review Press, 2018) and a member of the Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights, Mumbai. This article is a… READ MORE
Bhima Koregaon and the “Powers of the Other Shore”
October 1, 2021
Saroj Giri teaches politics at the University of Delhi. In India, today, we are witness to the quiet rise of the figure of Mahar Sidnak, iconized and lionized as a… READ MORE