To a person unfamiliar with India’s history and political economy, the Indian government’s response to Trump’s actions must be puzzling. Consider: Not only has Trump repeatedly held up India as a “big abuser” of trade ties, deported Indians in a most inhuman fashion, mocked India, he has also levied heavy tariffs on Indian exports, entirely…

The year 2023 was a tumultuous one for the Adani Group of companies. We look here at a limited question: what, if anything, did Adani’s crisis and his recovery signify about his relationship with international capital and the West? In what way are India and Indian businessmen making their presence felt in the world?

The economy should be the concern of ordinary people. For it is they who work it. And the quality of their lives, their joys and tragedies, are decided by the way the economy functions. Thus began the first editorial, “Why ‘Aspects’?” in Aspects of India’s Economy no. 1, July 1990. That economy, which shaped the…