The paper is on one of the best Macroeconomics teachers and a finest Marxists of our time, who is none other than Professor Patnaik. The reading is neither decisive nor trivial to understand the contribution of a behemoth personality, nonetheless, presents a humble perception of some of his work...

The modern conceptualisation of the absolute property right has been observed in the Two Treatises of Government by Locke. In the Commentaries of the Laws of England, Blackstone too had remarked on the characteristics of private property right. The paper critically appraises the compatibility of...

During the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Great Flood 2018, the survival of the Kerala Economy is a collective consciousness of the people and their committed Government. The article explores a few sectoral achievements which are remarkable as an alternate when the world undergoes the output...

A proper examination of the states' tax efforts is necessary for the creation of appropriate and reasonable criteria for resource transfers from the center to the states, as well as to encourage states to mobilize resources for development plans in their own sources. In India, most of the...

The paper is on the IPR regime and its developmental implication in the Indian context. We discusses the issue in the IP asset intensive industries to relook the market driven approach to as an institution driven approach

Retaining of a hierarchical social order looms over the discussion on representation in all walks of life. Caste based reservation in India emerged in this backdrop as a panacea for social oppression and hierarchy; whereas the income-based reservation argument is a product of bridging economic...

A response to “Death of Democracy: An Inevitable Possibility under Capitalism’’ by Rajan Gurukkal (EPW, 25 August 2018) seeks to foreground the inherent contradiction between genuine democracy and capitalism. Realising the possibility of system-transcendence therefore demands an organised...