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Amitanshu Verma

By financing environmentally damaging projects, can Indian funders be held liable?

Banks and financial institutions in India have no internal mechanisms to address the broader costs of investing in risky projects.

Amitanshu Verma
&
Nancy Pathak
· Apr 04, 2024 · 11:30 am
The making of the ‘bahubali’ model of governance in Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh

The state has employed strongman tactics of demolitions, ‘encounter’ killings and spectacular violence while aligning with big capital infrastructure projects.

Amitanshu Verma
· Aug 03, 2023 · 09:00 am
Investing in public well-being is not ‘populism’: Why the ‘freebie’ debate is flawed

Instead of being limited by fiscal deficits, governments should instead raise tax the super rich to raise funds for healthcare and other welfare measures.

Anirban Bhattacharya
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Amitanshu Verma
· Apr 18, 2023 · 06:30 am

Following authoritarian regimes around the world, India is using Covid-19 pandemic to crush dissent

In Delhi, large numbers of people – many of them Muslim – have been arrested in cases related to the CAA-NRC protests and recent communal riots.

Harsh Mander
&
Amitanshu Verma
· May 15, 2020 · 06:30 am