Agenda for a welfare state

In India, the wealth of industrialist Mukesh Ambani grew at Rs 90 crore an hour, according to the Hurun India Rich List 2020 while at the same time, 24% of the country’s population was struggling to make Rs 3,000 per month.
The wealth of businessman Gautam Adani grew 12 times over in the two years until 2022 to Rs 9.5 lakh crore while half of India’s working population - 90 crore people - lost hope and even stopped looking for livelihood options.
In this conversation, author and peace worker Harsh Mander and economist Prabhat Patnaik discuss the possibility of universal social and economic rights through a wealth and inheritance tax on the top 1%.
This discussion is part of a series is called Yeh Daag Daag Ujala, in tribute to the iconic poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz.

[@MadhuKallingalthodi]

"You were...once most respected economist.. " according to Harsh Mander. To say the truth, I came here only to hear Prabhat.

[@mr.trinadhnookathotiassist6071]

very much insightful

[@aurangzebansari3007]

Nice conversation ❤

[@meenaisaac1014]

The idea of universal social rights seems to be the universal mean towards which all movement should be directed ideally. But perhaps it needs to be pressed upon the consciousness of the masses in higher decibels.

[@aurangzebansari3007]

Sound is very slow.

[@tompogson9755]

Mentions Renana Jhabvala...ignores her work completely

[@rgg1642]

We tried that till 90s. Everybody was poor. Since then many people have improved their lives. Yes not all. But the situation overall is better than the 90s when everybody was poor. I dont want to be POOR!!! I want to make tons of money through capitalism... And in a HONEST way...

[@48038]

Good podcast

[@danishjuyan1341]

Writing the title in Urdu along with English and Hindi doesn't cost you anything but it attracts the Urdu population which is six crore plus in India itself.

[@moe00711]

but the video is fully in english only, so having the title in another language is gonna mislead/ disappoint people.

[@danishjuyan1341]

@@moe00711 but you have already written the title in Urdu. Did it mislead the audience?

[@anirbanbhattacharya3395]

All Marxists have gone to TMC … please get out of your ignorance