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Beneath the Concrete, the Soil Still Whispers
Colin Todhunter
Gleaming office buildings, concrete flyovers and ever-sprawling housing developments and industrial parks, the modern city is increasingly presented as...
New Book: Rejecting the Ideology of Progress
Colin Todhunter
‘The Agrarian Imagination: Development and the Art of the Impossible’ (2025), published by The Critical Globalisation Collective (UK & India),...
Tragic Idealism and the Art of ‘The Impossible’
Colin Todhunter
The following article is adapted from the author’s new book The Agrarian Imagination: Development and the Art of the...
The Agrarian Imagination: The Iron Cage of Agri-Rationality and Dostoevsky ‘s Moral Underground
Colin Todhunter
“A great deal depends upon a right relationship with the soil; the right relationship with the soil is the...
Beyond the Farm Laws: Corporate Cloud Poised to Reign Over India’s Fields
Colin Todhunter
Nearly four years after India’s historic year-long farmers’ protests forced the repeal of three pro-corporate farm laws, it is...
Beneath the Flyover, Beside the Temple
Colin Todhunter
The word ‘development’ is often invoked as a moral good. Corporations and international investors regard it as a massive...
Manufacturing Consent: Big Ag’s Playbook of Propaganda and Power
Colin Todhunter
Antonio Gramsci argued that propaganda is the main fabric through which contemporary power asserts itself. For Gramsci, propaganda is central to cultural hegemony; in other words, the dominance...
Yuck! The Sour Taste of the Modern Food System
Colin Todhunter
The Yuka app is a mobile application designed to help consumers quickly assess the health quality of food and...
The Sacred and the Sick: The Rhythm of the Lanes and the Repercussions of Progress
Colin Todhunter
A lot has been written on the global food system—its industrialisation, ecological consequences and the erosion of cultural, economic...
Celebrating Independence: Comforting Myth in a Dispossessed Reality
Colin Todhunter
As India celebrates its 78th Independence Day on 15 August, the tricolour will flutter proudly across the nation. Speeches...
On Independence Day, Foreign Agribusiness Will Be Told Get Out, “Quit India!”
Colin Todhunter
On 15 August, India will celebrate its Independence Day. There will be the usual celebratory flag-waving and flypasts in Delhi along...
Suffer Little Children — Poisoned by Pesticides and Damaged by Ultra-Processed Foods
Colin Todhunter
Baskut Tuncak is a prominent expert and advocate in the field of human rights and environmental law. He has...
Game Up for Polo? Syngenta Faces Swiss Court Over Pesticide Poisoning in India
Colin Todhunter
This article highlights what happens when wealthy corporations export hazardous pesticides to Global South countries, where weaker regulatory protections...
Control, Crisis and Compliance: Endgame Logic of Late Capitalism
Colin Todhunter
It must be made clear from the start that, drawing on the work of sociologist Max Weber, capitalism is...
Digital Harvest: BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street – Shareholders in the Shadows
Colin Todhunter
They don’t sell seeds. They don’t own tractors. They don’t run warehouses or ship grain. But BlackRock, Vanguard and...
It’s Not a Broken System: From Food to Development, It’s a Masterpiece of Control
Colin Todhunter
Industrial agriculture is not a system in crisis. It is a system in command. Engineered with precision, it reflects...
Grief, Guilt and Graffiti — Why the Legacy of “Killer Carbide” in Bhopal Must Not Fade from Public View
Colin Todhunter
This article reassembles existing evidence to challenge a dominant narrative of the Bhopal disaster as a closed historical tragedy,...
Mutant Rice and Bill Gates’s Lab Rats: Grand Experiments in India’s Fields
Colin Todhunter
In late 2024, Bill Gates sparked outrage in India after describing the country as “a kind of laboratory to...
Revolution from the Soil: Anti-Imperialism and Food Sovereignty in Burkina Faso
Colin Todhunter
Burkina Faso, under President Ibrahim Traoré, has become a focal point for anti-imperialist sentiment and political renewal in Africa....
Toxic Agribusiness’s Genetically Mutilated Greenwash
Colin Todhunter
In recent years, the global movement toward regenerative and organic agriculture has gained significant momentum. These approaches promise to...
