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The COVID-19 Lockdown in India: A Predictable Catastrophe for Informal Labour
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The Labour Movement in an Increasingly Authoritarian Hindu Nationalist State
Published in Global labour journal (01-05-2017)“…In May 2014, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power with an absolute majority in the Lok Sabha (general) elections in India, with…”
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Labour and Globalization: Union Responses in India
Published in Global labour journal (03-12-2009)“…Workers' rights in India were weakened since Independence by the large proportion of informal employees in the labour force. From the late 1970s, the situation…”
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Comments on “Workers Who Benefit from the Exploitation of Other Workers”
Published in Revista latinoamericana de trabajo y trabajadores (08-11-2020)Get full text
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Post-war Sri Lanka: exploring the path not taken
Published in Dialectical anthropology (01-09-2015)“…The notion of 'races' divided by such fundamental and immutable differences that they cannot live together has long been rejected as unscientific and…”
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Labour and globalization: union responses in India
Published in Global labour journal (01-01-2010)“…Workers' rights in India were weakened since Independence by the large proportion of informal employees in the labour force. From the late 1970s, the situation…”
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Report to the UN Human Rights Council on Sri Lanka: An Evaluation
Published in Economic and political weekly (10-10-2015)“…One of the most striking features of the report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Investigation on Sri Lanka, 2015 is its consistent…”
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Comments on “Workers Who Benefit from the Exploitation of Other Workers”
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The Gujarat Model of Development
Published in Economic and political weekly (15-03-2014)“…According to Shankar Sharma, a director at one of India's leading investment brokers, First Global, "India's current economic management is inarguably the best…”
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Talks Only With Broader Sections
Published in Economic and political weekly (06-03-2010)“…First a non-violent mass organisation like the People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) in West Bengal or Chasi Muliya Adivasi Sangh (CMAS) in…”
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A Tribute to Rajani Thiranagama: A Beacon for the Left
Published in Economic and political weekly (06-12-2014)“…A tribute to the Tamil doctor, feminist and human rights defender of Jaffna, Rajani Thiranagama, on her 25th death anniversary. She was killed by the…”
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2014 Elections, a Secular United Front and the Aam Aadmi Party
Published in Economic and political weekly (22-02-2014)“…By definition, they are people who wouldn't mind having a prime minister who presided over a massacre of Muslims in Gujarat (whether or not they know what role…”
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Towards a New Culture of the Left
Published in Economic and political weekly (05-10-2013)“…The conference on historical materialism in New Delhi recently was a major step towards the creation of a new culture of the left. Left-wing teachers,…”
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Independent Judiciary and Rule of Law: Demolished in Sri Lanka
Published in Economic and political weekly (02-03-2013)“…Among the continuing acts that erode democratic institutions in Sri Lanka is the recent impeachment of the Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake. President…”
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Labor History Symposium: Rohini Hensman, Workers, Unions and Global Capitalism: Lessons from India
Published in Labor history (01-11-2011)“…A symposium on a book by Rohini Hensman, Workers, Unions and Global Capitalism: Lessons from India (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011). Adapted from…”
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World Trade and Workers' Rights: In Search of an Internationalist Position
Published in Antipode (01-07-2001)“…Trade unions and NGOs have been divided sharply over the issue of a workers' rights clause in WTO trade agreements, and have failed to reach a consensus…”
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Writing Labour History
Published in Economic and political weekly (19-01-2013)“…The British Influence The early development of labour history in Britain was outside the universities, for example, in adult education bodies like the Workers'…”
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The Spectre of Fascism
Published in Economic and Political Weekly (03-03-2012)“…[...]the idea of people's amity cutting across boundaries of race, religion, sex, etc, which Gandhi upheld all his life was...anathema to the exclusivist,…”
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Sri Lanka: A Democratic Revolution in the Making?
Published in Economic and political weekly (21-02-2015)“…Change in Sri Lanka cannot end with the defeat of Mahinda Rajapaksa. An overhaul of the executive presidency and accountability for all war crimes going back…”
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The UN Report on Accountability in Sri Lanka: Substance and Reactions
Published in Economic and political weekly (11-06-2011)“…The report by a UN panel of experts on accountability in Sri Lanka found credible allegations of war crimes as having been committed by both the Sri Lankan…”
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