Achin Vanaik

Achin Vanaik is a writer and social activist, a former professor at the University of Delhi and Delhi-based Fellow of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam. He is the author of The Painful Transition: Bourgeois Democracy in India and The Rise of Hindu Authoritarianism.

Hindu authoritarianism and agrarian distress

To defeat populist-nationalist forms of communal authoritarianism in India, we have to fight against more than just communalism.

By Achin Vanaik

/ 5 Feb 2018

Capitalism and democracy

The missing term in the dominant discourse on democracy is capitalism. Even on the left, current realism apparently demands that we refuse to think beyond capitalism, that we do not

By Achin Vanaik

/ 29 Apr 2009

The World Social Forum 2003: a personal impression

See also: - India in the face of globalisation Rajeev Bhargava - The Asian Social Forum: a new public space Kamal Chenoy In many years of social activism, the World

By Achin Vanaik

/ 26 Feb 2003