In an address to the Congress parliamentary party on Dec. 8, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee lamented that the UPA coalition was forced to suspend the cabinet decision to allow 51% foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail (like Wal-Mart, Tesco, Carrefour and others) in order to avert a mid-term poll. … Read More
As America leads a resurgence of imperial muscle in Britain and France, India finds herself in a precarious position as battleground of a fresh Evangelical assault on her civilisational ethos and as a launch pad Washington hopes to use in its containment of Russia and China, having effectively crushed much … Read More
The morally-challenged UPA regime, accused of policy paralysis by big business seeking ever more concessions with each passing quarter, has moved quietly but speedily on a mission to decimate the middle class. Whether or not these measures enjoy covert political consensus, the fact remains that not a single political party … Read More
A profit-sucking corporate food chain; contract farming and mono-cultivations displacing crop diversity; farmers reduced to bonded labour of 21st century clones of the East India Company – such will be the face of Indian agriculture if we let the UPA impose the disastrous policy of FDI in retail. It is … Read More
