Editorials
By giving in to bigots we are nourishing the soil of intolerance.
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Web Exclusives
A preliminary look at the electoral performance of the fledgling Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi state using Geographical Information System (GIS) tools allows us to make some qualitative conclusions that could have a bearing on the AAP's political...
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Margin Speak
The space given to pseudoscience of the Hindutva variety at the Indian Science Congress must be viewed as part of the ominous process of all-round saffronisation that is presently underway.
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Commentary
The mobilisations following the attacks in Paris revealed a moral and political crisis. The call for national unity should however stop delegitimising and criminalising dissenting voices and give way to critical introspection regarding France...
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Commentary
Charlie Hebdo has been an important part of France's public conversation, with some of its cartoonists being well known nationally for their art. The aftermath of their killings has opened up deep divisions exemplified by the contesting Je...
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Commentary
The ideology of Islamism is directly linked to protecting the energy needs of contemporary capitalism and it represents a particularly egregious tool of reaction. The Charlie Hebdo killings need to be understood in the context of the larger...
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Commentary
Duty-free barter trade across the Line of Control from two points in Jammu and Kashmir has grown since its initiation as a confi dence building measure in 2008. Despite growing volumes, traders face several logistical and policy hurdles that mean...
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Commentary
The handloom sector has been continuously denied public funds. An analysis of budgetary allocations since 1997-98 shows that the handloom sector funding has not kept up with costs of production, and inflationary increases during the period.
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Commentary
A personal tribute to one of the most infl uential theoreticians of the Indian political system.
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Book Reviews
Mobilizing Restraint: Democracy and Industrial Conflict in Post-Reform South Asia by Emmanuel Teitelbaum (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press India under the imprint of Foundation Books), 2011; pp xxi + 220, Rs 795.
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Book Reviews
Breaking the Shackled Silence: Unheard Voices of Women from Kandhamal (first edition) by Saumya Uma, published by National Alliance of Women, Odisha chapter, 2014.
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Book Reviews
'Countering Naxalism with Development: Challenges of Social Justice and State Security' edited by Santosh Mehrotra, Sage, 2014; pp 189, Rs 795.
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Insight
What happened at the Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Lima in December 2014 is a prelude to the bigger battles that can be expected in the three or four meetings scheduled for this year in order to...
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Special Articles
This article examines the social composition of public institutions in Allahabad, and specifically, the share of different castes and communities in positions of power and influence - the Press Club, the university faculty, the Bar Association,...
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Special Articles
The performance of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rajasthan was debated for its stupendous performance in the initial years of the scheme, but also for the relative sharp decline after 2010. Based on a large representative primary...
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Special Articles
The paper suggests a scheme for affordable housing in peri-urban areas. It works across all income groups, and draws its inspiration from a project started 30 years ago in north-western Mumbai which can be seen today as completely successful. It...
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Notes
This article discusses issues of measurement of informal employment. It briefly traces the evolution of the conceptual framework on the informal sector, what defines the sector and informal employment, and the new questions that have been...
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Discussion
This response to "Generating Agrarian Dynamism: Saurashtra's Lessons for Vidarbha" (Tushaar Shah, Yashree Mehta, Vivek Kher, and Alka Palrecha, EPW, 28 June 2014) agrees in part with the authors but contests their claim that...
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Postscript
For Sheema Kirmani, Pakistan’s most famous classical dancer, dance is a weapon against religious fanaticism and the terrorising of women.
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Postscript
They see curry on my plate
And begin their sad monologue
About how Indian I am
Wisecracks about my limited career options
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Postscript
R K Laxman, India’s best-known cartoonist, who passed away on January 26, aged 94, was a larger-than-life figure whose legendary status belies a strange quirkiness.
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Postscript
A plan to resurrect Mumbai’s eastern docklands and maritime history would be incomplete without promoting the Marine Museum at Nhava.
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Reports From the States / Web Exclusives
A study of the operation of the Safai Karmi Scheme of the Uttar Pradesh government reveals the apparent weakening of the age-old link between caste and occupation, with Other Backward Classes and even upper castes competing with Scheduled Castes...
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Glimpses from the Past / Web Exclusives
This article, published in the February 1965 issue of Economic Weekly, is an interesting take on technical assistance of Israel to tropical African countries - a few years before the 1967 war in Nigeria.
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