Tag Archives: India
A worldwide revolution of ideas is needed
Graham Peebles says a root and branch revolution of the fundamental ideas on which contemporary capitalist societies are built is essential if the causes of conflict and disharmony are to be eliminated. Read more [...]
Narendra Modi, India’s new prime minister
Graham Peebles asks if newly elected nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in tune with the time and possess the vision and imagination needed to create a healthy society in India. Read more [...]
Corporate-state corruption in India
Graham Peebles examines the scale of corporate and state corruption in India, which is enriching the few super rich, impoverishing the vast majority and turning the country into a failed state. Read more [...]
Filthy, deadly mayhem in India
Graham Peebles highlights the debilitating effects of pollution in India, arguing that it is time to end the official corruption and complacency that is turning India into the world’s biggest sewer. Read more [...]
Gender and caste discrimination in India
Graham Peebles examines the destructive role played by prejudicial gender stereotypes and a discriminatory caste system in India, which sit at odds with the “New India” image promoted by the elites. Read more [...]
World inequality, disorder and indifference
Graham Peebles examines the consequences of worldwide inequality, and the complacency it breeds among the tiny number of beneficiaries, and senses signs of hope, “a new consciousness of synthesis, tolerance and cooperation”. Read more [...]
Land, conflict and injustice in India
Graham Peebles examines India’s hidden war – the rural insurgency, officially described as a Maoist rebellion but in fact is a revolt fuelled by abject poverty, inequality and injustice, and chronic corruption. Read more [...]
India: sick from distorted development
Graham Peebles shows how two decades of “economic miracle” in India have bypassed the overwhelming majority of the chronically poor and left them sicker and more destitute than ever before. Read more [...]
Trading women for profit
Graham Peebles examines the worldwide problem of trafficking in women in the context of a global capitalist system that gives primacy to the commercialisation and commodification of everything and everyone. Read more [...]
Commercialization and conflict in new India
Graham Peebles views the causes of the insurgency in parts of India – poverty, neglect and government policy focused on enriching the corporate rich – and argues the case for sharing resources. Read more [...]
