September 2025
Book Review: Why the poor don't kills usThe title attracted me. I wish any Indian Economist had the courage to write this book. According to all recognized economic theories Indian inequality must have triggered us into a social anarchy several years (if not decades) back. Indian State's first non-communicable disease is inequality. I think it was Galabrith who said that if the society reaches an inequality of 1:30 it will descend into chaos and people will kill each other in the states (i may be wrong with the number). Recently I read that some of our IT companies have a disparity…
Seven years ago, I witnessed a crime at the altar of ‘development’—one that continues unchecked today: the deliberate refusal to see that what most of us call “rural development” is, in fact, just urban arrogance dressed as policy.Back then, I was summoned as the token “insider” to a high-powered government meeting —tasked, along with sophisticated sounding consultants from a global funder, to redesign the future a rural development programme. The experts from the multilateral spoke with polished confidence, their PowerPoints shining; the government team, by contrast, shrank into hesitancy,…