By Deputy Editor, Surabhi Chhikara What do the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 1970 oil boom and the recent release of the film Aadujeevitham (Goat Life) have in common? They all relate to the Gulf countries and more precisely to the kafala system- a legal framework that has brought both wealth and tears to migrant labourers [...]
(Review of the book, Economics after the Crisis: An Introduction to Economics from a Pluralist and Global Perspective, by Irene van Staveren. 2015. Routledge. Pp. 439) By Dr. Annavajhula J.C. BoseDepartment of Economics, SRCC Economics students in India, in general, are not aware of this beautiful introductory economics textbook written by a beautiful woman with [...]
A FREE MAN is a gripping account of a daily wage laborer’s life and his associates at Bara Tooti Chowk in Delhi. Neither is it a dull social commentary nor an overly emotional narration of a poor man’s woes. Ashraf, the protagonist leads the story into the nether regions of Delhi’s Sadar Bazaar. The illegal [...]
Incentives – the heart and hearth of economics The book written by Steven Levitt in collaboration with Stephen Dubner beautifully unravels the simplicity of economics and how incentives make the world go round. Levitt, in a very subtle way, enriches the reader with how incentives shape individual lives, functioning of gangs and administration of a [...]
Not being an intellectual reader myself I had qualms while picking something that was classified as non-fiction!However, after finishing India Unbound by Gurucharan Das,here I am,writing a review for a book that is truly gripping! A brilliantly written book that answers why India was once rich and now poor. Interesting and insightful, this book is [...]
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