Comment
Public broadcasting is ironically now shining the beacon on reasoned debate in the media.
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H T Parekh Finance Column
Managerial pay disparity between private sector and public sector banking in India is widening. Should the regulators address this by hiking public sector pay scales, or by curbing private sector pay? Drawing from international policy responses,...
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After The Planning Commission
Now that the government has decided to abolish the Planning Commission and create a new body in its place, the question is what form and shape should the replacement take? Three articles discuss different aspects of the old and the likely new...
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After The Planning Commission
The government must recognise that one source of China’s strategic economic growth is an institution with strategic planning capacities, the National Development and Reform Commission. The success of China with the NDRC tells us that fiscal...
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After The Planning Commission
What needs to be done to give the plan process a new content and direction, and make the proposed National Development and Reform Commission an effective body?
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Commentary
The central government has made cleaning of River Ganga one of its foremost priorities. A former administrator involved with the Ganga Action Plan suggests that a bottoms-up approach of involving local communities and stakeholders in the...
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Commentary
The speaker has decided to follow conventions rather than jurisprudence in her decision not to accord the "leader of opposition" status to the leader of the Congress legislative party in the Lok Sabha. Conventions cannot supersede the...
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Commentary
After the 1990s, communal incidents in India have spread to rural areas, and they occur on a smaller scale, but with much larger frequency. In this strategy, the making of a communal consciousness requires a string of communal moments that...
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Commentary
Through a two-way process comprising text analysis of the policy framework of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan programme and analysis of empirical data collected through interaction with policy implementers, teachers, students, experts, etc, this...
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Commentary
Analysing the political conditions inside Afghanistan, this article looks at the challenges before the new regime in Afghanistan. Further, it looks at the increasing infl uence of the Loya Jirga and analyses the strategic implications for India...
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Commentary
A tribute to the American scholar Granville Austin who wrote two landmark books on the making and then working of the Constitution of India.
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Book Reviews
Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire by Radhika Desai (New York: Pluto Press), 2013; pp xiv+ 313, £19.50 (PB).
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Book Reviews
Knowing India: Colonial and Modern Constructions of the Past edited by Cynthia Talbot (New Delhi: Yoda Press), 2011; pp ix-409; Rs 595 (paperback).
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Insight
The polyester wars of the mid-1980s that pitted one industry group against another are back with us. On the basis of an investigation begun by the United Progressive Alliance government, the National Democratic Alliance government has imposed an...
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Special Articles
In spite of the fact that at one point of time it was believed that globalisation would lead to a process of cultural homogenisation and reduction of difference, the local has actually resurfaced more strongly in the present. The perceived threat...
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Special Articles
The early 1960s witnessed attempts at constrictive reinterpretation of the role and purpose of education in terms of ideological premises, concepts and methodology of neoclassical economics, with "economics of education" being founded....
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Special Articles
This paper examines the assumptions underlying educational incentive schemes with the help of data collected on the status and implementation of three such schemes for minority communities in Maharashtra. Though the lacunae in the design and...
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Notes
The recognition of two important concepts in science, namely, the assimilative capacity of nature (resilience) and the entropy law of thermodynamics enables the formulation of an alternative framework for factor utilisation in economics. This...
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Glimpses from the Past / Web Exclusives
The discussion on "intermediate regimes" was carried out in the pages of the EPW through the mid 70s. We present one of the earliest essays on "intermediate regimes" by K N Raj for our readers.
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Reports From the States / Web Exclusives
Kashmir’s rich historical traditions, replete with stories and folklore drawn from a multilingual tradition of historical composition in Sanskrit, Persian, and Kashmiri, get glossed over when its past is neatly divided into Hindu and Muslim...
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