Editorials
The Indian media must ask itself whether it is still in the business of journalism.
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H T Parekh Finance Column
HSBC, which operates in more than 80 countries, is in the midst of a signifi cant retreat from various markets, including retail banking in Brazil and Turkey. Last year, Citibank, another global player, cut its exposure to global consumer banking...
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Commentary
Net neutrality is neither a technical principle nor something necessary to uphold free markets. It is an egalitarian principle as applied to a key building block of the new social system of the internet. But it is equally important to check the...
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Commentary
Nations, unlike households, do not face budget constraints. Fiscal defi cit targets therefore cannot be the objective of macroeconomic policy. Instead, budget discussions must focus on governance, supply-side bottlenecks and on policies to raise...
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Commentary
After prolonged tripartite wage negotiations, tea plantation workers of West Bengal fi nally reached a wage agreement last February. However, the wages in the new agreement continue to be below statutory minimum levels and are almost half the...
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Commentary
Amul has begun to do to the informal dairy sector what the European Union threatened to do to the Indian dairy sector: dump milk and milk products, capture the market and then drive down procurement prices as well. India's dairy sector...
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Commentary
Having lost political and economic ground in Central and South America over the years because of its policies of political interference, the United States is now trying to change tack. The end of the embargo of Cuba is one example of the new...
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Book Review
House, But No Garden: Apartment Living in Bombay's Suburbs, 1898-1964 by Nikhil Rao, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012; pp 312, Rs 2,283.
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Book Review
From India to Palestine: Essays in Solidarity edited by Githa Hariharan; New Delhi: Left Word Publications, pp 210, Rs 350.
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Book Review
The Theatre of Veenapani Chawla: Theory, Practice, Performance edited by Shanta Gokhale, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2014; pp xxii + 330, Rs 895.
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Perspectives
China and India are the world's second largest and third largest economies, respectively. Yet, the engagement between their economies remains modest at best and people-to-people contact is minuscule. Will the various Silk Roads proposed by...
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Special Articles
Behind the dramatic demise of the Congress in 2014 is a long history dating back to the 1970s and 1980s. The Congress has often chosen to ignore those deeper reasons for its recent decline. Similarly, the failure of the Congress as also its...
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Special Articles
The gathering momentum of globalisation in the world economy has coincided with the spread of political democracy across countries. Economies have become global. But politics remains national. This essay explores the relationship between...
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Special Articles
The compensation practices at large financial institutions are often held as one of the important factors which contributed to the 2007/2008 global financial crisis. Regulators around the world, including India, have therefore moved to enact...
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Notes
The Jharkhand assembly election saw the Bharatiya Janata Party and its poll partner, the All Jharkhand Students Union Party, secure an absolute majority by winning 42 seats. The absence of a united opposition; a lukewarm Congress; the Jharkhand...
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Notes
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Notes
A detailed look at the Bharatiya Janata Party's electoral sweep of the Jammu region unpacks the victory and provides clues to understanding its political roots.
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Notes
The sweeping victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2014 assembly elections in Haryana raises important questions about the changing nature of identity politics. This article traces the historical contours of identity formation in Haryana...
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Discussion
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Web Exclusives
An MHRD document titled “New Education Policy”, inviting comments from various stakeholders, seems to propagate the same old technocratic orientation towards improvement in higher education. That it would neither empower...
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Reports From the States / Web Exclusives
Kinnaur, one of Himachal Pradesh’s most ecologically fragile places, is under threat from widespread construction activity in hydroelectric power projects. Landslides have become a common occurrence threatening apple orchards as well as...
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Web Exclusives
Natural hosts of some of the most deadly emerging viruses such as Ebola, bats are harvested in an annual ritual by a Naga Tribe in Nagaland. This practice, endangering both public health and biodiversity, can lead to the emergence of novel...
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