Reporters Desk by Abhishek Angad

Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty and what India can learn from it. How concentration of capital to the top decile, or centile has led to extreme inequality in many countries. Think India, the every year we hear the same figures, that top 10 percent of income and wealth distribution received more than 50 percent and more than 60 percent respectively. So what is the solution, as Piketty says that taxing the Capital is NOT to fund the welfare state, but first to regulate capitalism. He says that diffusion of knowledge via education and financial investments will reduce inequality.

So who was Ambedkar? Who were his mentors who made an impression on him? Why did he always have certain contradictions with Communist ideology? Why did he always take on Gandhi? If there is one book which describes him and his work in minute details, Iconoclast, a reflective biography of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar by Anand Teltumbde comes as an authoritative book.