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When Elephants Join Hands

Vol - XLIX No. 46, November 15, 2014 

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Editorials Dangerous Games The resistible rise of communalism in West Bengal. Read more	Commentary Disciplining the Intimate The Kerala Model Meena T Pillai The recent furore over the "Kiss of Love" protest march in Kerala reveals the paradoxical nature of the state's polity and the link between discourses on morality and the maintenance of regimes of power. Read more
Commentary Returning without Solutions Manash Bhattacharjee This article argues that there is something intrinsically fascist about “solutions”; a word that has turned out to be a dangerous gift from scientific imagination. Drawing on the history of Jews and Palestine as well as the Partition... Read more	Commentary Creating 'Good Jobs' Assessing the Labour Market Regulation Debate Radhika Kapoor The current regime seeks to reform labour laws with the understanding that these reforms will improve industrial growth and expand the possibilities of enterprise. However, there is already ample evidence from within India that this obsession... Read more
Commentary Deregulation and the Fading Labour Agenda Evidence from Transnational Automobile Companies in India Sobin George The report of the International Commission for Labor Rights on the precarious workers in the automobile companies in Chennai reminds us of the inferior state of labour in Indian industry. While India is already in for a second round of labour law... Read more	Commentary The 'Smart City' Card Himanshu Burte The "smart city" idea is extremely attractive, especially to the middle and upper classes who experience Indian cities as being anything but smart. It is a concept frequently thrown about but lacking a clear defi nition - though at... Read more
Commentary India and the Sustainable Cities Goal Shipra Narang Suri, Eugenie Birch The Millennium Development Goals set world development targets to be achieved by 2015. The time has come to set a new development agenda for the world, one that builds on and learns from what the MDGs achieved and missed out on. It is argued that... Read more	Commentary A Déjà Vu Agenda or a Development Agenda? Bhumika Muchhala, Mitu Sengupta The official debate on the Sustainable Development Goals, which will replace the Millennium Development Goals when they expire in 2015, is moving very quickly at the United Nations. This article critically analyses the post-2015 development... Read more
Book Reviews Creation of an Imperial City Anish Vanaik From Ghalib's Dilli to Lutyens' New Delhi:A Documentary Record edited by Mushirul Hasan and Dinyar Patel (New Delhi: Oxford University Press/ National Archives of India), 2014; pp xliii + 296, Rs 1,395. Read more	Book Reviews Muslim Aspirations in Pakistan Sadia Saeed Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan by Naveeda Khan (Durham, NC: Duke University Press), 2012; pp 280, $23.95. Read more
Book Reviews Postcards from Below Raj Sekhar Basu Life as a Dalit: Views from the Bottom on Caste in India edited by Subhadra Mitra Channa and Joan P Mencher (New Delhi: Sage Publications), 2013; pp 438, Rs 1,495. Read more	Book Reviews Challenging Received Wisdom Immanuel Ness India Migration Report 2013: Social Costs of Migration edited by S Irudaya Rajan (New Delhi: Routledge), 2013; pp vii + 339, Rs 795. Read more
Perspectives Minorities at the Crossroads Comments on Judicial Pronouncements F S Nariman The Constitution confers a fundamental right on India's minorities, giving them the freedom to conserve their religion, language, script and culture, and to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice. Courts, including... Read more	Special Articles Women Participation and Rationing in the Employment Guarantee Scheme Sudha Narayanan, Upasak Das The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act that guarantees employment of every rural household for 100 days has different progressive provisions to incentivise participation of women in the programme. Official data suggest that 47... Read more
Special Articles "Who Says We Do Not Work?" Looking at Sex Work Sujata Gothoskar, Apoorva Kaiwar Sex workers' organisations have argued against trafficking and see it not only as a human rights violation, but also as a threat to their own work and credibility. Often the debate is couched in terms of anti-trafficking lobbying/campaigns.... Read more	Special Articles Has Odisha Become Less Poor in the Last Decade? Amaresh Samantaraya, Auro Kumar Sahoo, Arundhati Mallick,Biswabhusan Bhuyna Though there has been overall economic progress in India in the post-reform period, it has not been uniform across the country. This article points out that contrary to popular perception, Odisha gradually improved its relative economic position... Read more
Notes Cultivating Communal Hatred in Bengal Kumar Rana, Manabi Majumdar Blasts in Khagragarh in Bardhaman district in West Bengal on 2 October 2014 have led to growing anti-Muslim propaganda in the state. Such incidents related to political violence have their roots in the political-economic structure of central... Read more	Postscript From Tenderloin to Tandoorloin Zaheer Baber The notorious Tenderloin area of San Francisco, home to over 30,000 of America’s poor, has a vibrant South Asian connection. Read more
Postscript Gods’ Own Lepchas E K Santha Dzongu, the reserve in north Sikkim close to the Kanchenjunga, is meant to protect and preserve the cultural heritage and tradition of the Lepchas. Read more	Postscript To Read or Not to Read Tejas Harad It is easy to blame the internet for the death of the printed word but reading – deep or shallow – is less a function of the medium and more of the aptitude of a person. Read more
Postscript Race and Space Neha Sinha Ignorance, bolstered by stereotypes of external appearance, is a determinant in racism and is increasingly manifesting itself as hateful external aggression.