'Six Faces of Globalization, Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters' by Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp is a useful overview of the subject, though written very much from an American point of view.

Both the Modi government and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are ignoring one crucial aspect of reviving the economy: raising effective demand.

Former Lok Sabha MP and founder of Marxist Coordination Committee, A.K. Roy was well-known for his simplicity and humility, and for consistently fighting for his staunchly socialist ideals.

The story of the October Revolution of 1917 is as much one of the masses of Russia taking their future in their own hands as it is of Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

All the gains that documents like the Economic Survey point to cannot hide the ugly reality about India's social infrastructure, employment and human development.

In order to put the economy on a trajectory of sustained growth, what we need is a large fiscal stimulus package.