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Deepankar Basu and Tania Li: Rethinking issues of labour and precarity under contemporary capitalism  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aTzRpElLyM Association for Heterodox Economics  Sep 19, 2022
Plenary with Deepankar Basu (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Tania Li (University of Toronto) at the 24th Annual AHE conference, July 2022.

Deepankar Basu is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on three areas: long run evolution of capitalist economies with a focus on issues of profitability, capital accumulation and technical change; various aspects of economic development in India including nutrition, food security, the informal sector, employment, and electoral outcomes; various topics in applied econometrics, including bias of OLS estimators. His book, The Logic of Capital: An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. He has published many articles in peer reviewed journals.

Tania Murray Li is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her publications include Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Zone (with Pujo Semedi, Duke University Press 2021), Land's End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier (Duke University Press, 2014), Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia (with Derek Hall and Philip Hirsch, NUS Press, 2011), The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics (Duke University Press, 2007) and many articles on land, labour, class,capitalism, development, resources and indigeneity with a particular focus on Indonesia. https://www.taniali.org/

 Prabhat Patnaik: Crisis in Capitalism or Crisis of Capitalism  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTfIbOQhTjs Prabhat Patnaik  Aug 1, 2022 Keynote speech by Prabhat Patnaik (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Prabhat Patnaik is an Indian Marxist economist and political commentator. He taught at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, from 1974 until his retirement in 2010. He was the vice-chairman of Kerala State Planning Board from June 2006 to May 2011.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/magazine/hank-asher-data.html

Canada’s Allegation Creates a Dissonance in the Post-G20 Narratives About India  https://thewire.in/diplomacy/india-canada-nijjar-modi  Nirupama Subramanian 21/Sep/2023

"What the Canadian allegation has done is to call out the paradox: abroad, the Modi government wants to be seen as Vishwaguru, a rules-abiding global leader who is a reliable partner of the West, and at home as a take-no-prisoners, tough-talking don, who can ghus ke fix all perceived enemies."  For Delhi, which wants to be seen rubbing shoulders at the high table with the G7 even as it claims the leadership of the “global south”, Canada’s allegation has created a dissonance in the post-G20 narratives about India, its influence and clout, its convening power, and its bridging capabilities. All this because India has worked hard to project itself as a land of 1.5 billion people that is not China.

It is not too well known that at the time, the CSIS wanted R&AW to sign off on a MoU listing do’s and don’ts for foreign intelligence operatives, which the Indian agency refused to do. Over the next few years, R&AW and IB did not post anyone in Canada. A semblance of Indian intelligence presence in Canada was maintained through the Bureau of Security in the Ministry of External Affairs, manned mainly by police officers. These officials are posted to missions abroad to manage the security of the diplomats. In Canada, in a decade crucial for India’s battle to save Punjab, they were tasked with part-time intelligence work too. This continued until matters were resolved in the mid-1990s,

Terry Glavin: After Trudeau alleges murder plot, Canada-India relations may be irreparable https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-glavin-after-trudeau-alleges-murder-plot-canada-india-relations-may-be-irreparable  Who are these 'credible allegations' coming from? Sep 19, 2023 In the column, in which he lights into Trudeau for “irreparably” damaging ties with India and handing Beijing a victory, Glavin suggests that the BJP was in touch with Ripudaman Malik, one of three main accused in the Kanishka bombing case.   in the background is what became largely a covert operation, a backchannel reconciliation effort between Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party and veteran Canadian Khalistanis who were growing weary of agitating for a separate Sikh state in India that India’s Sikhs want nothing to do with... but the Trudeau government bowed to a Khalistani-influenced group of gurudwara leaders and “obstructed the peace dialogue ..process,”