The ethics of inequality

It's not good enough to be rich if you are a Dalit as well

Edited volumes can only be described. But before that, let me say that this is a seriously good book because it relies on a variety of intellectual traditions. That enriches the collection. It is, if you will, “inclusive” in its choices.

Narendar Pani, who is an economist and a professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bengaluru, as also a former colleague in journalism, makes a crucial point and uses the essays in this book to illustrate it. This is that inequality isn’t just economic because the well-off can face it socially as well. It’s not good enough to