Editorials
Shouldn't students and teachers have the freedom to decide how to celebrate Teachers' Day?
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Commentary
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India recently released its report on media ownership to a studied indifference from the print media which otherwise debates this issue vigorously. Why have the newspapers avoided a serious and vigorous...
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Commentary
The statewide Intensive Household Survey conducted in Telangana is similar to many such surveys carried out in undivided Andhra Pradesh. The data collected and used by state and non-state parties have political implications. One is of "data...
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Commentary
The parallels between Hanoi (1965-68) and Gaza (2014) are chilling. Yet, while the Vietnamese liberation fi ghters, through similar trials and tribulations, could emerge victorious after two decades of fi ghting (1950-70), why are the Palestinian...
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Commentary
The Indian decision to block adoption of a decision on trade facilitation at the World Trade Organisation has been portrayed as "short-sighted". If truth be told, long-pending proposals for reforming the Agreement on Agriculture were...
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Commentary
U R Ananthamurthy (1932-2014) was the quintessential public intellectual, combative on matters of public interest and unafraid to run counter to popular opinion and prejudices. He won the admiration of many and the hatred of regressive forces and...
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Book Reviews
The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt (London: Allen Lane), 2009; pp xvi + 443, £ 14.99.
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Book Reviews
Hindi Dalit Literature and the Politics of Representation by Sarah Beth Hunt (New Delhi: Routledge), 2014; pp 264, Rs 695.
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Perspectives
Tuberculosis is spreading with renewed vigour globally as are its more virulent strains like multi-drug-resistant TB and extensively drug-resistant TB. Even as the bacteria mutates and there is urgent need to deal with the many inadequacies of...
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Special Articles
This study seeks to contribute to a better understanding of precarious employment, highlighting its association with migration through the prism of the private security industry in Goa. In light of rising social anxiety about poor,...
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Special Articles
Although Jagmohan is most infamously associated with the Emergency, there is much more to his figure when his role is seen in specific intersections of Indian political and economic history. This paper spans his lifetime of work, from his...
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Special Articles
In this paper the idea of conservation is revisited through capturing the erstwhile pre-capitalist lifeworld of the Kāṇis of Shenduruney and Agastiya Malai regions of the southern Western Ghats within Kerala. The essence of conservation is traced...
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Notes
In their attempt to ensure speedy recovery of loans, banks in India have begun publishing photographs and details of defaulting borrowers. It has proven to be an effective method of putting social pressure on defaulting borrowers. However, it is...
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Discussion
Despite the potential of the paper, "Critical Thinking on Caste among Schoolchildren in Maharashtra: Case Study of Two Schools in Chiplun" (EPW, 31 May 2014), it is reduced to a reporting of some of the views and attitudes of children...
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Economic Notes
This article examines trends in corporate profi tability based on data contained in the Reserve Bank of India's studies. It observes that the profi t margin and real return on capital employed came down between 2009-10 and 2012-13. Though...
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Postscript
The success of the Pro Kabaddi League has been an eye-opener for the “other side” of television executives and audiences long disdainful of this Indian sport.
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Postscript
As Madras enters the 375th year of its founding, we still do not know why the sepoys of the Madras Native Regiment gave so much to the founding of the Empire and were yet quick to rebel.
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Postscript
The possible abbreviations for the Leader of Opposition offer an interesting diversion into the origin of words and their usage.
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Glimpses from the Past / Web Exclusives
Bipan Chandra's contribution to the understanding of modern India and communalism has engaged generations of scholars. We, at EPW, present this special article that he wrote in the August 1975 issue, on Jawaharlal Nehru and his...
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Web Exclusives
The body that is to replace the Planning Commission must build on the strengths of the existing one even as it addresses
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