Pritam Singh
Dr Pritam Singh is a Professor of Economics at Oxford Brookes Business School, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK. His special area of interest is development and environmental economics. He has published extensively in this area with a focus on India and the Punjab. He is currently studying the spatial shift in the global economy with its implications for global ecological sustainability and is developing an eco-socialist perspective to examine this spatial shift.
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While not wholly rejecting neoclassical analytical tools, the heterodox economics approach criticises the sole reliance on orthodox neoclassical economics and values alternative economics paradigms—Marxist, Keynesian, institutional, and feminist, to name a few. Manmohan Singh engaged with the economists and thinkers of this heterodox approach personally and professionally.
The protest vote against the Conservative government ensured a massive Labour majority. The electoral contest witnessed one of the lowest voter turnouts in the UK’s electoral history. Many Conservative supporters simply did not turn out to vote or voted for the more extreme right-wing party, Reform UK. This contributed significantly to the devastating rout of the Tories, to the extent that former Prime Minister Liz Truss and dozens of ministers suffered humiliating defeats.
The persistence and intensity of attacks on Muslims has made even other religious minorities feel unsafe in a way that these minorities had not felt before except the Sikhs who had felt massively persecuted after the 1984 Bluestar operation in Punjab and Delhi carnage. Since the BJP came to power at the Centre, the Sikhs have been experiencing a new kind of fear of BJP/RSS trying penetration into Sikh religious institutions to Brahmanise Sikhism and weakening the egalitarian ethos of their faith. BJP’s attempt to seek defections of some Sikh leaders to its fold not only erodes the credibility of the defectors, but it also further accentuates fears among the Sikhs about BJP/RSS trying to infiltrate among the Sikhs to weaken the Sikh institutions.
This may lead to the BJP having the worst ever election outcome in Punjab, Chandigarh and the constituencies in other states with substantial Sikh voters.
While not wholly rejecting neoclassical analytical tools, the heterodox economics approach criticises the sole reliance on orthodox neoclassical economics and values alternative economics paradigms—Marxist, Keynesian, institutional, and feminist, to name a few. Manmohan Singh engaged with the economists and thinkers of this heterodox approach personally and professionally.
The protest vote against the Conservative government ensured a massive Labour majority. The electoral contest witnessed one of the lowest voter turnouts in the UK’s electoral history. Many Conservative supporters simply did not turn out to vote or voted for the more extreme right-wing party, Reform UK. This contributed significantly to the devastating rout of the Tories, to the extent that former Prime Minister Liz Truss and dozens of ministers suffered humiliating defeats.
The persistence and intensity of attacks on Muslims has made even other religious minorities feel unsafe in a way that these minorities had not felt before except the Sikhs who had felt massively persecuted after the 1984 Bluestar operation in Punjab and Delhi carnage. Since the BJP came to power at the Centre, the Sikhs have been experiencing a new kind of fear of BJP/RSS trying penetration into Sikh religious institutions to Brahmanise Sikhism and weakening the egalitarian ethos of their faith. BJP’s attempt to seek defections of some Sikh leaders to its fold not only erodes the credibility of the defectors, but it also further accentuates fears among the Sikhs about BJP/RSS trying to infiltrate among the Sikhs to weaken the Sikh institutions.
This may lead to the BJP having the worst ever election outcome in Punjab, Chandigarh and the constituencies in other states with substantial Sikh voters.
The new generation of Akali politicians must transcend narrow visions of electoral politics and enrich itself intellectually by drawing inspiration from Guru Nanak’s teachings on ecology and social equality.