Deepak Chauhan

SUN 30.5.2010 16:20-16:40, Amazon Stage, Railway Square, Programme in English

In her book Bazaars, Conversations and Freedom, Indian author Rajni Bakshi sketches a road map for breaching barriers constructed by the free market orthodoxy, to recover the virtues of bazaars as truly open and democratic spaces. Her book is packed with stories about those far-sighted people who diagnosed the fatal flaws in an economic system driven by greed and fear.

Financial wizards, economists, business persons and social activists are challenging the ‘free market’ orthodoxy as they salvage the good of bazaars from the tyranny of a market model that emerged about two centuries ago. Mumbai-based Rajni Bakshi has been writing extensively about social and political movements in India for the last three decades.