Editorials
"Naxalites" are being blamed for inciting dalits, this in order to deflect attention from dalit massacres.
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Ht Parekh Finance Column
What exactly is money? This is the kind of question that readers of EPW revel in, and I have recently been reflecting on it after reading The Social Life of Money by Nigel Dodd, a professor of sociology at the London School of...
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Margin Speak
Bharat will not be swachh unless the caste ethos is completely eradicated.
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Commentary
The recent violence in Trilokpuri and communal incidents in some other areas of Delhi suggest that these have been instigated with an eye on the coming elections in the city state. The target seems to be to communalise important sections of Delhi...
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Commentary
The new formula for the pricing of natural gas produced in the country is an improvement on the Rangarajan formula. It corrects many of the computational flaws of the much-criticised approach of the previous government. However, there remain...
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Commentary
Religious fundamentalism has been gaining currency in myriad forms, often defining itself as a legitimate aspect of modernity. Nishita Pahuja's The World Before Her tries to address this conundrum.
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Commentary
This paper is based on my doctoral work submitted to Jawaharlal Nehru University. I am indebted to Atiya Habeeb Kidwai The local domicile concept is fallacious in India because every citizen has the right to move freely, reside and settle in any...
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Commentary
India is a party to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership negotiations with 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. This could have implications for India's stance on rules of origin and also could lead to...
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Commentary
A tribute to Dr Manu Kothari (1935-2014), Emeritus Professor of Anatomy, Seth G S Medical College, Mumbai, a pioneer of the propagation of fundamental truths about cancer.
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Book Reviews
Calcutta Diary by Ashok Mitra (Kolkata: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta; first published in 1977 by Frank Cass, London), 2014; pp xxvii + 300, Rs 395.
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Book Reviews
Colours of the Cage: A Prison Memoir by Arun Ferreira (New Delhi: Aleph Book Company), 2014; pp 164, Rs 295.
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Perspectives
This article focuses on the lacunae and limited understanding of the linkages between education, population and development. Data on this is important for realistic manpower and expenditure planning in the light of the Right to Education Act...
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Special Articles
Under the theoretical hegemony of monetarism, and serving the interests of the capitalists, the government's anti-inflationary policy seeks to lower real wages and reduce employment to achieve its objective, this even as the level of aggregate...
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Special Articles
The public distribution system is widely criticised for being ridden with chronic corruption and failing to deliver benefits in a systematic manner. Using a sample of 793 households in the district of Koraput in Odisha, this article reviews the...
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Special Articles
The conceptions of disease and its formulation under different paradigms have made it clear that the approach towards health and medicine has never been completely detached from ecology. Health and disease are thought to be the products of the...
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Notes
The Lady Tata Memorial Trust, established in 1932 in Bombay, was among the earliest philanthropic foundations created to support leukaemia research globally. Very little was known about leukaemia, a major mystery in medical science, at the time....
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Economic Notes
An analysis of corporate sector earnings and spending reveals that since liberalisation in the early 1990s, Indian companies have become increasingly dependent on foreign inputs, while foreign companies operating in India continue to focus on...
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Special Articles
The violent events of 1984 signify the breakdown of consensual politics and the ideal of composite Indian nationhood. When communal animosity spreads across society, it corrodes the social conscience and (directly or subliminally) produces a...
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Perspectives
Wounds are expected to heal. Our very conception of victims and victimhood is based on this hopeful axiom. But not all wounds heal, some remain in a constant state of decay, degenerate, and ultimately risk turning into waste too. It is this...
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Web Exclusives
The Meeriyabedda landslide tragedy in Sri Lanka in which dozens have died has exposed the condition of workers in tea plantations in Sri Lanka. This tragedy needs to be investigated keeping in mind the historical disadvantage and dispossession...
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