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Anand P. Krishnan is a Visiting Associate Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), and is presently a Visiting Faculty at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. He holds a PhD in Chinese Politics from the Centre for East Asian Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, for his doctoral thesis titled, 'Market Dynamics and State Responses in China: Social Welfare and Industrial Workers, 1987-2008'. His main area of research is labour relations in China, and also focussing on studies through a comparative framework with India (and, in the global south). He was a Non-Resident Fellow under the China-India Scholar Leaders Initiative, of the India China Institute, The New School, New York City, from 2018-21. In 2016-17, he was a Visiting Fellow, at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He has also completed a two-year India-China comparative research project funded by the Indian Council for Social Science Research, on Labour Relations and Welfare in Small and Medium Enterprises in Mumbai and Wenzhou (2014-16). Previously, he was a Research Associate and Programme Officer at ICS. His interests also lie in China's Political Economy, informal labour, social policies, and labour's interface with urban questions in the global south.
In addition to being the starting point of the possible onset of another scorching summer, the month of April also witnessed two important happenings that are tied to the country
യുക്രെയ്നിലെ അതിക്രമങ്ങളുടെ പേരിൽ ഒട്ടേറെ രാജ്യങ്ങളുടെ വിമർശനം ഏറ്റുവാങ്ങി നിൽക്കുകയാണ് റഷ്യ. പ്രസിഡ...
ഈ കഴിഞ്ഞ ഫെബ്രവരി 21-നു, ചൈനയുടെ വിദേശ കാര്യ മന്ത്രാലയം, തങ്ങളുടെ പുതിയ ആശയമായ ‘ആഗോള സുരക്ഷാ
Dr. Anand Parappadi Krishnan, recently joined the Centre of Excellence for Himalayan Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida
This book examines the progress and reception of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in key subregions of Asia, Africa and Europe. Through its exploration of the patchwork of distinctive
India -China Clash Impact on Trade Relation: तवांग सेक्टर में एलएसी(LAC) पर चीन की हिमाकत के बाद उससे सभी तरह के व्यापारिक संबंध खत्म करने की मांग एक बार फिर तेज हो गई है।
عادت الاشتباكات بين الجيشين الهندي والصيني عند الحدود المتنازع عليها في الهيمالايا .. ورغم انتهائها سريعا بانسحاب الطرفين، لكنها تثير مخاوف بشأن مستقبل التوتر بين قوتين آسيويتين
As China's 20th Communist Party Congress begins. What is in store for the CCP and Xi Jinping. P P James in coversation with Anand P Krishnan, Visiting Associate Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi
As China's 20th Communist Party Congress begins. What is in store for the CCP and Xi Jinping. P P James in coversation with Anand P Krishnan, Visiting Associate Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi
Stringent lockdowns in many Chinese cities – under the obsessive and inflexible “zero-Covid” strategy of the Communist Party of China – has resulted in an economic slowdown and citizens suffering
The 23rd congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) commenced in Kannur, in northern Kerala, from 6 April 2022. It is after ten years that Kerala is playing host
The centenary of the Communist Party of China is a chance to look at the status and role of the working class
P.K. Anand reports on how India’s government has learned little from last year’s pandemic and lockdown measures and reveals how workers are suffering as a result.
Apple’s decision to place its Taiwanese supplier, Wistron Corp., on probation by not giving new orders — after an audit of the serious lapses in labour practices that led to violence in its facility in Narasapura
For the tens of thousands of garment workers in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru and the surrounding state of Karnataka
As with the Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT), discussed previously
The rapid growth of the sharing economy and app-based employment has presented tremendous challenges to trade unions across the world.
Visible in both China and India is a dominant vision of urbanity that perpetuates sanitised order and pristineness, devoid of any informal or irregular spatial practices.
സ്ഥാനമേറ്റ് ഒരു വര്ഷം തികയാറാകുമ്പോള് മാധ്യമങ്ങളില് ഇത്രയേറെ എഴുതിയ മറ്റൊരു വിദേശ സ്ഥാനപതിയും ഇന്.
COVID-19 has (re)ignited conversations on workplace safety across the world, thus necessitating renewed attention on policies and practices in this regard. The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that each year 2.78 million workers die from occupational accidents and work-related..
Indian publications have regularly provided space for the Chinese ambassador to present his country’s point of view. That didn’t raise eyebrows – until now.
While political systems, level of State capacity and trajectory of development may vary, cities in China and India have retained many common threads of socio-spatial exclusion of migrant workers.
With India’s national lockdown set to be extended, P.K. Anand argues that the time has come for the Indian government to wake up to the precarious reality of labour relations in the country.
The images of migrants on roads across India should perhaps help us re-evaluate the often romanticised images of the massive movement of workers annually in China.
The COVID-19 outbreak has not only brought to fore the employment uncertainty workers face in the service sector but has also showed China’s incapacity to come up with a formal solution to this.
Subramanian Swamy’s comments on the Mumbai and Kolkata ports provides the opportunity to highlight the pressing concern of weak infrastructural capacities in India.
The Modi-Xi informal summit is a good time to analyse the economic capacity of China, especially the role of manufacturing sector, in powering the country and its positioning in the China-India dynamics.
Global economic changes and the resulting shifts in the role of the state from being a provider of resources, has led to significant transformation of the concept of full-time, permanent employment. This has led to new forms of non-standard employment and work arrangements, thus making labour, fluid and dynamic.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s under the forces of Globalization, Liberalization and Privatization, sustained changes were brought in the patterns of economic production and distribution.
Over three decades of economic growth and transformation by China has not only caught the world’s attention and generated considerable interest, but...
His interests also lie in China's Political Economy, informal labour, social policies, and labour's interface with urban questions in the global south.
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