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Articles by Hitesh Potdar
Between Profits and Social Purpose: Is there a Right Path for the Tatas?
In the past few years, the Tata group has been in the news for issues pertaining to governance. A large part of the debate has been about the peculiar ownership of the holding company, where a set of public charitable trusts hold a majority stake.
Why Dharavi Should Not Be “Redeveloped”
The “redevelopment” of Dharavi as a modern, upmarket “planned” urban space is legislatively settled. Yet, on the ground, the process is slow and it faces local resistance. We argue that Dharavi has been misconstrued as a “slum”, whereas in reality it is a dynamic and self-organising space of production of labour-intensive goods. Given its complexity, “planned redevelopment” is very likely to destroy its productive energy.
With the Modi Aura Dispelled, Hope for a Revival of Democratic Voices
It was all gloom and pessimism before June. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had just wrested West Bengal from the Trinamool Congress and retained Assam. The Election Commission of India (ECI) had unleashed the menace of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls across states. The Supreme Court appeared to approve everything the ECI did and seemed willing to play along with the government. Opposition parties were being broken.
The App Fixes the Hour: How Platforms Are Reorganising Domestic Work in India
It is still early in the morning when Shanti’s* phone buzzes, even before she has left the house after wrapping up her own exhausting household “duties”. There is a notification from a domestic work platform on the screen: a two-hour cleaning job beginning at 9 am in Hiranandani Powai, one of Mumbai’s most affluent neighbourhoods. The app does not say what needs to be done–no details about the house, the number of rooms, or the kind of cleaning that is expected.
Rethinking Employment and Industrialisation in India
It is well known that the composition of India’s domestically produced output – the gross domestic product (GDP) divided into primary, secondary, and services sectors – has changed faster than the occupational structure of the workforce in those sectors. According to standard wisdom in development economics, these two changes should go more or less hand in hand.
The perilous lives of Indian workers
According to the Directorate General Factory Advice Service and Labour Institutes (DGFASLI) report (2021), a total of 32,413 accidents were reported across various industries, resulting in 1,050 fatalities and 3,882 injuries, in 2020 (Table 1). The table also shows that there has been a decrease in industrial accidents in terms of total injuries and non-fatal accidents (2011-2020).
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