Capitalism

Why arm-twisting Better.com CEO Vishal Garg for firing 900 employees on Zoom is misinterpreting modern capitalism

Backlash against Vishal Garg is indicative of how we misinterpret capitalism when employee rebellion is considered an avante garde act of artistic mutiny, whereas tacit survival instincts displayed by the captain of the ship are almost always framed as evil.

Chinese urban professionals are rejecting careers for a 'low-desire life', rattling the Communist Party

Beijing needs skilled professionals to develop technology and other industries. China’s population is getting older and the pool of working-age people has shrunk by about 5 percent from its 2011 peak.

Targeting big business counterproductive, ingenuity, resourcefulness of Indian entrepreneurs integral to growth

It is the ingenuity and the resourcefulness of Indian entrepreneurs as well as family businesses that hauled us out of that era of scarcity and want.

Period leave isn't 'radical'; it's simply making the workplace amenable to the people who work in it

The story of how weekends and humane working hours came to be makes for an important and inspiring comparison when talking about period leave.

In The Disaster Tourist, Yun Ko-eun critiques capitalism's ability to monetise everything — even calamity and trauma

The Disaster Tourist challenges the reader to evaluate our curiosity about traumatised communities and landscapes that appear exciting for their unpredictability and history of ruin.

Re-thinking productivity during the pandemic: Forced busyness is toxic; the will to achieve things must be organic

Capitalist culture has created an illusion of productivity by falsely connecting it with happiness. In such a system, if one isn't productive, one doesn't deserve to be content.

Amitav Ghosh talks three new projects, thinking in visual terms and the interplay of capitalism, imperialism

Amitav Ghosh has announced three new projects — Jungle-Nama, a verse retelling of the legend of Bon-Bibi, a Sunderbans epic; a new collection of essays; and The Invisible Hand, a work of non-fiction informed by his research for the Ibis trilogy. 'If you’re a city-dweller, a story like Bon-Bibi is an oddity to you. But if you’re living in the Sunderbans, Bon-Bibi is your life,' he said in this interview to Firstpost

The future is sci-fi: Soylent Green, climate change and the slippery slope from capitalism to cannibalism

Even if world leaders respond to our plea to fight climate change with sneering comments, we — like Thunberg — must never stop from calling them out for their inaction. The future of humanity rests on it.

Evolution of Naga and Kashmiri freedom struggles suggest time is up for real nationalism

The Naga struggle for independence from India began, according to Naga separatists, from before 15 August, 1947 when India became independent.

Adivasis and the Indian State: How onset of industrialism, modernisation wreaked cultural, social and economic havoc among tribals

The adivasi community might not be the most marginalised, but it is certainly the most misunderstood.