Journalist Raksha Kumar dissects economic inequalities in India – one of the most unequal countries in the world – and tries to offer solutions for building a fairer place for its billion and a half people. In the second episode Raksha ruminates the chaos in the world economy asking whether BRICS+ can change the course of history or if those countries will stand by and watch mutely? Plus, Raksha tries to go back to the colonial times to understand how taxation introduced back then still casts a shadow on India’s economy inequalities.

Hosted by Raksha Kumar, production and sound design by Leo Schick, featuring Jayati Ghosh Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and of The Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation and Surajit Mazumdar, Professor of Economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Further Reading:

A BRICS agenda for enhancing climate finance https://unctad.org/publication/brics-agenda-enhancing-climate-finance from UNCTAD.

China and India rebuild ties after Modi’s rupture with Trump https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-13/india-china-thaw-takes-shape-as-modi-embraces-brics-over-trump from Bloomberg.

The Guardian view on Brics growing up: a new bloc seeks autonomy – and eyes a post-western order https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/13/the-guardian-view-on-brics-growing-up-a-new-bloc-seeks-autonomy-and-eyes-a-post-western-order Editorial from The Guardian

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