Financial Accountability Network – India
Striving to Make Financial Institutions Accountable
What the Finance Minister presented as the “White Paper” on Indian economy was more like an effort to White Wash a decade of its failure.
Just a scratch on the surface peels off the layers of lies, media hyperboles and gimmicks. What remains is the reality which is stark, alarming and dark. A reality they wish to hide behind its divisive politics of hate.
The historic farmers’ agitation against the farm Bills pushed by the Modi government was a desperate fight back against what was being touted as Indian farming’s “1991 moment”. The Bills would have made farmers directly negotiate with private corporations instead of the mediation of a state-regulated marketplace. It took about…