Editorials
The Supreme Court rightly nullifi es the abuse of executive power in expanding the reservation list.
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Margin Speak
The ban on cattle slaughter threatens the livelihoods and ways of life of vast numbers of people--mostly belonging to the so-called lower castes--engaged in the production, distribution and consumption of beef.
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Commentary
India is planning to push up domestic defence production by roping in the private sector, especially multinational corporations. Though this seems a laudable aim at fi rst sight, the wisdom of letting in private players inspired by profi ts and a...
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Commentary
There is forever a demand to reduce interest rates, but the evidence in India in recent years is that lower rates by themselves do not spur investments. The rate of investment depends on other factors. What an interest rate cut does is directly...
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Commentary
In India, architecture is not seen as a discipline possessing any serious transformative social agency or critique either by architects themselves or informed critics. The article attempts to interrogate this situation, tracing and situating the...
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Commentary
This article provides a detailed critique of the formulae to provide compensation to subjects of clinical trials who may suffer serious adverse effects during their participation. The present formulae used by the Central Drugs Standard Control...
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Commentary
The special economic zones initiative has not been able to take off in India due to a host of factors. The defi ned objectives of promoting investment, exports, forex and overall growth led by higher production of goods and services have failed...
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Commentary
Robert Weil, activist-intellectual and author of Red Cat White Cat: China and the Contradictions of Market Socialism, who passed away in March 2014 and whose memorial meeting was organised by his family, friends and long-time comrades on 15...
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Book Reviews
New Perspectives in the History of Indian Education edited by Parimala V Rao, Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2014; pp 650, Rs 875.
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Book Reviews
Ambedkar: Awakening India's Social Conscience by Narendra Jadhav, New Delhi and Seattle: Konark Publishers, 2014; pp 647, Rs 1,199 (hardcover).
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Perspectives
Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf's works on North-East India grew out of an interest in the so-called remote pre-contact primitive societies. To him and his contemporaries in the West it was self-evident that the "primitive" or...
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Special Articles
Although the structural reforms, initiated in 1991, did not lead to any appreciable increase in either the efficiency or the export orientation of Indian manufacturing firms, unexpectedly, there has been a visible improvement in manufacturing...
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Special Articles
The idea of secularism as expressed in our Constitution and as articulated over the years through the political process is embedded in the concepts of equality and democracy rather than in the Western concept of secularism which denies religion...
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Special Articles
A survey in Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh—sstates that have extended social pension coverage beyond "below poverty line" families and increased pension amounts—sprovides a window into the challenges of scaling up such...
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Discussion
The author's response to Disha Nawani's critique "Caste among Schoolchildren" (EPW, 6 September 2014) says she has missed the crux of his arguments.
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Notes
West Bengal's agrarian distress-driven increase of rural non-farm activities in the 1990s caused the unprecedented emergence of new census towns in the 2011 Census. However, because of the huge increase of agricultural labourers (in 2011),...
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Postscript
A recent graduate from the London School of Economics reminisces about the triumphs and tribulations of living and studying in one of the most exciting cities in the world.
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Postscript
For the intrepid bibliophile, second-hand bookshops, especially those found on city pavements, are an endless source of pleasure and serendipity.
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Postscript
The first edition of an occasional column that will take a tongue-in-cheek look at economics and society.
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