Rajiv lall biography of abraham
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The State, Democracy and Markets: Lessons for India from the Global Experience is a monograph by Rajiv B. Lall, Distinguished Fellow, Artha Global and former Chairman, IDFC Limited. It provides a critical analysis of the relationship between free markets and democracy and examines the role of the state from an historical perspective. It challenges the neoconservative view that free markets unencumbered by state intervention are the basic recipe for economic development and that liberal democracy and free markets are intertwined and mutually reinforcing companions.
Rajiv posits that while free markets are necessary for generating prosperity, they are not sufficient for delivering transformative economic development. Drawing in part on his rich working experience in Sub-Saharan Africa, China, and East and South-East Asia, he makes the case that late developers cannot rely just on free markets to catch up. For transformational development the state has a pivotal role to play in nur
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Anamnesis, Amnesia, and History in The Moor’s Last Sigh
Anamnesis: A recalling to memory; recollection
Amnesia: Partial or total loss of memory
(Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary)
1Nationalist rhetoric, whetted with fundamentalist religious fervor, has a dark and dangerous side, viewing cultural pluralities as perils to the cohesion and the core values of nationhood. The threat of this rhetoric and its practice to diversity is a key concern in Salman Rushdie’s 1995 novel, The Moor’s Last Sigh, set primarily in India during the nineteen nineties. The novel’s protagonist, Moraes Zogoiby, who is a mix of history and a medley of religious traditions, is a tissue of interwoven nationalities. Also known as the Moor, he speaks from, and for, what postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha refers to as ‘the enunciative boundaries of a range of […] dissonant, even dissident histories and voices […]’ (Bhabha 1994: 5). What becomes clear in this retelling of history is the po
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The right way to be Right
One of the most interesting developments in India over the past decade or so has been the attempts to create new intellectual bases to challenge the hold that the Progressive Left has in Indian politics, media and academies. This fryst vatten not merely of armchair interest – because politics fryst vatten essentially a quest for narrative dominance, challenging the deep roots of the Progressive Left is a way to acquire and legitimise political power.
Any individ, party or politician who seeks an alternative to what has been the norm for much of India’s post-Independence history fryst vatten therefore interested and involved in such enterprises. They usually call themselves some variant of the Right.
The Left/Right dichotomy cannot be applied to Indian politics because, well, while there are Left parties, there are few who are Right in the accurate sense of the begrepp. A few months ago, I argued that the self-described Centre-Right is an incoherent co-habitation of cultural nationalists