V. Krishna Ananth teaches history at Sikkim University, Gangtok. He had been a journalist, reporting on the political developments in India through the 1990s.
India’s new labour codes that consolidated 29 central labour laws in 2019-2020 reveal a pro-employer ideology. These codes reverse hard-won protections and return conditions to colonial-era standards.
The first biography of George Fernandes sparkles in places where the author’s access to the socialist leader’s private papers pays off. But it falls short, with gaps in understanding and inadequate…
