Rohit Azad
@azadrohit
Political economy, Climate Crisis. Faculty at JNU. “The workers spend what they get, and capitalists get what they spend” — Kalecki (capitalism in capsule form)
Watch @anubmaurya talk about Mughals and their role in contemporary political discourse.
Episode 29 | Nope | What is history minus Moguls | youtu.be/hyVsb7BH0pY
A wealth tax or meaningful redistribution of wealth doesn't imply a communist revolution. Its funny how economists who are constantly recommended for Nobel have fallacies that appeal to the extreme. The answer? Ppl pwill get aroud it. 1/3 businesstoday.in/india/story/wa…
Irresponsible reporting from @the_hindu @IndianExpress @bsindia & others about Indian being 4th equal country. They compare India’s CONSUMPTION inequality Gini of 25.5 with INCOME inequality of other equal countries. INCOME inequality of India is 62! Thread explaining: 1/8
@DelhiPolice @dtptraffic @CPDelhi @OfficialDMRC @dcptsr @dcp_southwest @DCPSouthDelhi Traffic police shld manage the crossing under the Nelson Mandela flyover.People have been stuck in the jam for more than45 minutes. Every day we’re suffering from this mess. PLEASE DO SOMETHING!
@azadrohit & I write on #Inflation #Targeting in the Third World in the special issue of Money, Banking and Finance in #EPW. In the paper, we critically analyse the New #KeynesianMacroeconomics framework and provide an alternative to it. #rbi #kalecki epw.in/journal/2025/2…
In Solidarity with my fellow colleagues, Snehashish and Irfan, and students at @SouthAsianUni I was invited to deliver a talk on 9th April as a part of the seminar series at the South Asian University (SAU) but I am withdrawing my name from this event.


Important new paper on how inflation has been more volatile and more damaging for the poor in India.
New Paper Alert! 🚨 Inflation Inequality in India 🚨 Our study (2015-2023) shows that the poor face higher inflation volatility than the rich. Published in @epw_in #Inflation #Inequality #India #EconomicPolicy #EP epw.in/journal/2025/1…
The recent event at @SouthAsianUni where I was encircled by Right Wing extremist goons & then beaten up,touched inappropriately by Ratan Singh, isn't an isolated event. Fr last 1 year I've been sending mails to the administration about how they've made me feel unsafe(1/n)
@azadrohit and I write in today's Hindu on the tax cuts in this year’s union #Budget2025 #BudgetSession2025 #tax #IncomeTaxRelief #IndiaBudget2025 #Income thehindu.com/business/Econo…
#Explained | The Indian economy is going through a rough patch as was evident from the recently released provisional estimates of its #GDP. How can the Budget arrest growth decline? ✍️ Dipa Sinha, Rohit Azad trib.al/Zci4Ii5
💼The BUDGET SERIES 🛑Budget Should Support Dietary Diversity to Ensure Food Security in India 📷Explains @sinhadipa , Development Economist & Academic youtube.com/watch?v=N2RXUB… @nikhilmkss @mkssindia @roadscholarz @jsa_india @JJSSBIHAR @Jayati1609 @azadrohit @NREGA_Sangharsh
#BudgetWithTimesNow What Will The Budget Do For Us This Time? Will There Be Something For The Stock Markets? Will This Be A Reform Budget? Watch @SMehrotra1 @azadrohit @ARanganathan72 @TheJaggi @monikahalan decode the budget on Feb 1, only on TIMES NOW #Budget2025 #Budget
Prof. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, one of the great intellectual giants of our times, whose sharp, insightful political economy analyses taught us so much about economic processes, is no more. We will greatly miss this major economist and wonderful warm human being.
A two year old child was shot in the head in a premeditated killing. #Manipur. Our people will have to emerge from this madness one day. They have before. They will again. For rest of India we will be a story to be adopted or discarded based on their mainland politics.
The autopsy report of a two-year-old child who was kidnapped from Manipur's Jiribam district on November 11 and killed in captivity shows a bullet wound in the skull. L Chingkheinganba Singh was kidnapped along with five other family members - his mother, infant sibling,…