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Uttam Sen

I have been a journalist in India, having worked for The Statesman, Economic times (Kolkata) and the Deccan Herald (Bengaluru). I have a doctorate from Calcutta University on federal relations in India. As a leader writer and sometime correspondent in happening places I have had the occasion to meet with and write on interesting people and events e.g. Madame Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon, political episodes in Bangladesh and Nepal, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Edinburgh and the proceedings at the UN’s Conference on Disarmament (CD) in Geneva. I have been working on my own on public discourse, particularly ideas and history as human agency, roughly the title of a recently published article in which I presented my conclusions. I do not subscribe to any set body of ideas and am interested in the unencumbered narrative of the existential challenges before the common man or average person in India, through what passes for the public sphere.

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  • America’s Global Election

    How do people deal with this situation, particularly in a country like India? The received wisdom among the middle and upper classes is overwhelmingly that they never had it so good, fobbing off the mischief of deregulation as a left-wing myth. This condition is exacerbated by literature that liberalization and “reforms” have been setting the record on mismanagement straight since 1991 and that what is required is more of the same viz. liberalization or removal of controls, some of which is admittedly desirable, but potentially dangerous as an instrument for selfish gain. Prof Stiglitz seems to suggest that similar abandon in the event of a particular electoral outcome in the US will trigger a global recession rather than the self-fulfilling prophesy of prosperity. His caveat has hopefully spread wide and fast enough to stave off disaster!

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