Asian export-led growth accelerated the typical shift in labour between sectors, but the transformation was similar to the one that rich countries had already gone through. Thus, the manufacturing share of employment in an economy as a function of its income per person first increases as workers move from agriculture to manufacturing, then decreases as they move from manufacturing to …
Ironically, it was on a flight to Thailand that I happened to re-read Rabindranath Tagore’s Where the Mind Is Without Fear, written over 120 years ago. I learnt that the day we got independence had been a solemn affair in most homes, given the loss of people and property many had incurred along the way, something we seemed to have …
Mahatma Gandhi launches the Quit India Movement at the Bombay session of the All-India Congress Committee. Responding to his call, a 22-year-old student of Wilson College, Usha Mehta, starts an underground radio station to counter the propaganda disseminated through All India Radio, the British government’s mouthpiece. Usha Thakkar narrates this compelling story of passion and daring in Congress Radio: Usha …
