Author name: Yashashwi

Yashashwi is an undergraduate student of English literature at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi with academic interests in polity, law, psychology. She is currently an intern under Amader Bengal.

Bengal’s Industrial Ruin: The Fall of Hindustan Cables

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HCL was built largely around assured government procurement, especially large state-run telecom operators such as BSNL and MTNL. For years, the company survived because the state was not just the owner, but also the main customer. Once that procurement ecosystem weakened, HCL’s business model began to unravel. The year was 1952, and India was laying […]

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Rise and Decline of IISCO: Lessons from Bengal’s Steel Industry

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IISCO’s blast furnaces, open-hearth furnaces and rolling mills had become technologically outdated. Even as the global steel industry shifted toward basic oxygen furnaces — a far more efficient method of steelmaking — IISCO continued relying on traditional open-hearth furnaces, where steelmaking cycles were significantly slower and more energy intensive. Frequent mechanical failures led to repeated

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