listen to a presentation by Mritiunjoy Mohanty given at La Passe in downtown Montreal as part of the ongoing Free City Radio community presentation series, Mritiunjoy offers some critical perspectives / reflections on the contemporary economic condition in India as it relates to poor and working people, while also focusing on the struggles of Adivasi people.
this presentation was recorded by Anya Sivajothy from the CKUT community news collective.
Mritiunjoy Mohanty teaches economics at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta) in Kolkata, India. He is currently on leave from IIM Calcutta and a visiting researcher at Le Centre d'études et de recherche sur l'Inde, l'Asie du Sud et sa diaspora (CERIAS) of Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). His areas of research interest are growth and structural change, employment and labour markets, open economy macroeconomics and the political economy of growth. He is an economic adviser to the New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI), Delhi, India. The NTUI is a federation of independent (politically unaffiliated) trades unions in India spanning multiple sectors working with labour in both the oranised and informal economy. He is also a member of CERAS, a Montreal-based advocacy group on issues related to peace, democracy and development in South Asia.
