NB: The entire spectrum of Indian politics was represented at the Ambani wedding, – an obscene spectacle of wealth ongoing for several months in a country marked by extreme economic disparity. As the chart below shows, Indian big business has been at the forefront of spreading hatred to promote our ruling dispensation. This is untrammelled shamelessness and hypocrisy. What would our political leaders have lost by skipping this useless function? Here’s a short list of politicians who attended. It is to his credit that Rahul Gandhi was not among them. But his party need take no credit for this. DS

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Stop funding hate, IIM-Bangalore faculty tell corporates
Entire Mainstream Media Spoke as BJP Spokesperson: Yogendra Yadav
Economic inequality in India: ‘billionaire raj’ is now more unequal than British colonial rule
Jairus Banaji on the Indian corporate strategy of subordinating farm households and family labor
Corporate Business and the Financing of Political Parties
Julien Benda: Our age is the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds
