Asim Ali
@AsimAli6
Political Researcher & Columnist. Words @ttindia @the_hindu @timesofindia @Diplomat_APAC Email [email protected]
To revive manufacturing sector on the East Asia model, India needs to overcome a deeper political economy constraint: the entrenched alliance of a rentier political elite, a co-opted professional middle class and oligarchic big business. Wrote about it. telegraphindia.com/opinion/creati…
Meanwhile, India's PLI-based plan to capitalize on business supply chains relocating from China, and increase manufacturing share in GDP to 25% has failed. Over the last five years of the PLI scheme, manufacturing actually fell from 15% to 14% of GDP. thehindu.com/business/Econo…
Pierre Bourdieu called our ability to naturalize any part of our lives (including oppression) as "just the way things are," never even realizing it can be otherwise, "a wonderful instrument of ideology, much bigger and more powerful than television or propaganda"
you can read theory day and night, but a garments worker in bangladesh, a surrogate in india, a schoolgirl in afghanistan, a young woman in iran, a pregnant woman in poland, a woman in an abusive marriage in the philippines-- they will understand oppression more keenly than you.
Hot off the press. I am delighted to share my latest article 'The making and unmaking of the Bhalswa landfill in Delhi'. Hopefully the article will help us move beyond a narrow understanding of landfills as 'eye sores', often portrayed by int. media. 🧵 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Thanks @AsimAli6 for this thoughtful analysis ippjournal.org/uploads/1/3/6/…
Reviewed three imp recent books on Muslims & Indian state by @Ahmed1Hilal @sohalamarsingh and @pratinavanil for IPP journal. They variously explore evolving state patterns of incorporating Muslims, and agency of Muslims in responding to state strategies. ippjournal.org/uploads/1/3/6/…
Finally, an analysis of 3 recent books by @AsimAli6 looks to provide a nuanced analysis of the Muslim vote in India and how it helps our understanding of the agency of Muslims in modern India.
Pleased to serve as a special editor alongside @rahul_tverma for an issue on the 2024 national election for Indian Politics & Policy. In the issue, we seek to interrogate how the results shift our theoretical understanding of Indian politics. Issue: ippjournal.org/volume-5-numbe…
We didn't speak out against that ghastly camps in Assam and now they are building quasi camps everywhere. I cannot hate those Delhi liberals who vociferously campaigned for NRC in Assam enough i hope you all pay for your sins one day
Amidst nationwide crackdown against ‘suspected foreign’ nationals, 100s of Bangla speaking migrant workers detained in Gurugram in what police calls “holding centres.” I and @alishan_jafri report from the ground.
New research published by the Lancet finds that economic sanctions imposed by the USA and EU are associated with more than 500,000 deaths per year since 1970, five times more than deaths by war. thelancet.com/journals/langl…
1000s of migrant workers are fleeing the city. They are going back to Assam and West Bengal. Police say they are not being detained but just held in “holding centres.” Somehow, “Gurugram city is getting dirty” gets more media attention and public outrage.
Important story by @alishan_jafri for @thewire_in In Gurugram’s ‘Holding Centres’, Men Say They Are Detained Just for Speaking Bengali m.thewire.in/article/commun… via @thewire_In
"Why restrictions on capital flows should be considered" Interesting development. (It is crucial to understand that foreign money is usually not needed inside a domestic economy.) on.ft.com/4lIt3G5
Nanny state for the rich, "aatmanirbhar" for the poor.
More than what was spent on MGNREGA during that period. Should be called crony benefit scheme or something?
Meanwhile, India's PLI-based plan to capitalize on business supply chains relocating from China, and increase manufacturing share in GDP to 25% has failed. Over the last five years of the PLI scheme, manufacturing actually fell from 15% to 14% of GDP. thehindu.com/business/Econo…
Vietnam has replaced China as the major source of US imports for many simpler manufactured goods.
Here is a story on Maharashtra's resistance to Hindi from Class 1. How the issue has a possibility to reshape the socio-political scenario of the state and how things could go beyond the Maharashtra borders. This issue. @frontline_india Do buy and read. Feedback awaited.
🚨‘Buried 100s of bodies’: WHISTLEBLOWER CLAIMS MASS KILLING OF SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS IN INDIA Former worker at revered #Dharmasthala temple say he buried many killed women and girls, victims of sexual assault What's Happening in Dharmasthala—@AJEnglish aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/22…
Our whole urban aspirational upper middle class eco system cannot even survive a single day without these workers and yet the hate, intimidation and unfair detention ongoing. Considering all this harassment, Gurgaon and its residents deserve to sink in garbage
Hundreds of domestic workers and sanitation staff—many of them Bengali-speaking migrants—have fled the city in recent days, gripped by fear amid a police verification and detention drive. The fallout is swift— Gurugram sinks in garbage. hindustantimes.com/cities/gurugra…
That's 5 million voters. Most likely to be from vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. Smacks of legalized exclusion, much as the US did with black voters in the 19th century
🔴 #BREAKING | "51 Lakh Voters Removed So Far": EC On Bihar Poll Roll Revision
It's unfortunate that national media isn't buzzing & clamouring about the removal of 51 lakh voters from 1 state especially when the country has seen the kind of religious, caste profiling BJP has been up to in matters of citizenship, social affairs & governance in past 11 years.
🔴 #BREAKING | "51 Lakh Voters Removed So Far": EC On Bihar Poll Roll Revision