Editorials
Mumbai's coastal road project is a recipe for more congestion and pollution.
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H T Parekh Finance Column
The question is not "if" but "when" the next financial crisis will hit. The 2007 crisis has still not ended. The quantitative easing initiatives of many countries have not had the desired effect of inducing liquidity. Instead...
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Commentary
The full implications of the establishment of the United States-led Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement need to be considered carefully by the global community. The proposed agreement could act as a trigger for the setting of a "new normal...
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Commentary
Our marine fishing communities are once again restive about the possibility of a neo-liberal opening up of the seas to Indian and foreign industrial interests. Though the track record of industrial deep-sea fishing has been very poor compared to...
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Commentary
This article utilises state-level data for 1961-2012 to examine the interlinkage between informal finance and monetary policy. The analysis suggests that in response to a monetary contraction, borrowing from moneylenders declines, whereas that...
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Commentary
Counter-insurgency in theory separates itself from conventional war by rendering the insurgent movement and its goals irrelevant. Concurrently, government is reinvigorated and welfare schemes implemented under the rubric of "winning hearts...
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Commentary
God-men continue to hold a large section of people in thrall. This article explores how god-men cash in on people's fears, anxieties and problems.
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Commentary
The manner in which the state is intervening in higher education is causing alarm. This position paper is the collective product of roughly six months of discussion among teachers of several central universities in Delhi. As part of a larger...
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Book Reviews
Forgotten Friends: Monks, Marriages, and Memories of Northeast India by Indrani Chatterjee; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013; pp 453, Rs 1025.
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Book Reviews
Reconstructing the Bengal Partition: The Psyche Under a Different Violence by Jayanti Basu, Kolkata: Samya, 2013; pp xlii + 249, Rs 550.
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Perspectives
A categorical distinction is facing rough weather--that between urban and rural. If we take just agriculture, there is so much of the outside world that comes in not just as external markets but as external inputs. Further, many of our villages...
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Special Articles
Based on extensive fieldwork in Pune, Hyderabad and Bengaluru, this article attempts to chart the migratory life of the Indian knowledge worker who having worked in the West returns to the country. The article focuses on the different aspects of...
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Special Articles
Examining the link between structural change and growth in India, this study constructs indices of structural change, and performs a panel data analysis using data for India's 16 major states. It finds that there is a one-way positive effect...
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Special Articles
This article addresses recent debates around the strikes and the massacre of the mine workers at South Africa's Lonmin Platinum Mine in Marikana from 2012 onwards. It argues that there is a failure to delve deeper into the culture of people...
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Notes
As in any other society, in India too, the economic security of the aged is based on three main sources: their own income and savings, support from the extended family, particularly children, and support from the state. As India moves rapidly...
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Economic Notes
The Forward Markets Commission and Securities Exchange Board of India merger may provide a relatively strong regulator, but the move needs to be supplemented with better information and warehouse networks to achieve the desired objectives of...
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Discussion
Two comments on "Growth in Gross Value Added of Indian Manufacturing: 2011-12 Series vs 2004-05 Series" (EPW, 23 May 2015) question the defence of the statistics on growth in manufacturing in the new National Accounts Statistics of the...
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Discussion
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Postscript
A tête-à-tête with a 95-year-old Nepali cultural historian endows the experiences of both narrator and interviewee with new meaning and shared connections...
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Postscript
In the light of today’s social and political environment, when secular credentials are under threat, we need to seriously re-examine our education system.
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Postscript
The rain trickles far away
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Web Exclusives
China’s muted response to the Russian annexation of Crimea and its proximity to Putin can best be interpreted as a strategic move by both to combat the dominance of Western hold on diplomacy. With Chinese support, Russia need not depend on...
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Reports From the States / Web Exclusives
Some reasonably astounding claims have been made about the commando raid carried out by the Indian army on rebel camps in Myanmar. A long time observer of the region and military operations there separates the chaff to prise out the possible...
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Reports From the States / Web Exclusives
Delhi's chest thumping journalists have become mere stenographers of power, forgetting to ask questions and interrogate official narratives. A journalist from Manipur recounts the events leading up to and around the 9 June 2015 “...
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