Author name: Eric Rahim

Piero Sraffa is certainly not a household name. I suspect that most undergraduate students may not be familiar with it. It is therefore necessary to begin with a brief account of his life. Sraffa was born in Turin (Italy) in 1898. His father was a famous jurist and a professor of commercial law. Sraffa completed […]

by Eric Rahim Abstract (This article shares brief glimpses of the political landscape of the subcontinent (emphasis on Pakistan) from the viewpoint of the author – as a student, a journalist and an active member of the communist party from the late 1930s to the 1950s. – Editor) I start with some ‘pre-history’. During the 1880s