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India's Killer Heat Waves

Vol - L No. 22, May 30, 2015 

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Heat waves do not kill, poverty and governmental apathy do.

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Editorials Myanmar's Election Test The polls later this year will be Myanmar's first true electoral challenge after the 1990 vote. Read more	Strategic Affairs Silk Routes versus Sea Lanes The Return of Landlubbers Atul Bhardwaj The Chinese strategy is to build rail and road links over the Eurasian landmass to escape the vice-like grip over maritime trade routes exercised by the United States and its allies. An exploration of the possible consequences, drawing on history... Read more
Commentary History Challenges Modi in China Manoranjan Mohanty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has managed to break the ice and give a positive push to the perceptions about India-China relations on the street. The challenge remains whether he can build on this to address the long festering border dispute and... Read more	Commentary Comparing Census and NSS Data on Employment and Unemployment Kannan Kasturi The census and National Sample Survey both provide employment and unemployment data. This article identifies broadly comparable indicators of employment, underemployment and unemployment from the two data sets and finds that Census 2011 estimates... Read more
Commentary Media Ownership and the Marketplace of Ideas Smarika Kumar Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's recommendations on concentration of media ownership alone will not address the need for plurality of views in the media. The author argues that a regulatory framework must go beyond diversity of media... Read more	Commentary Swine Flu Surprises T Jacob John The government has not taken the outbreak of influenza virus seriously enough. While it had managed to curtail the spread of the H1N1 virus in 2010, it has not put in place the public health measures which would collect data and allow for... Read more
Book Reviews An Astonishing Tale about Global Poverty S Subramanian Poverty and Progress: Realities and Myths about Global Poverty by Deepak Lal; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015; pp xi and 248, Rs 495. Read more	Book Reviews The Historical and the Literary Rani Kedar A Kulkarni The Rani of Jhansi: Gender, History, and Fable in India by Harleen Singh, Cambridge University Press, 2014; pp 199 hardcover, Rs 548. Read more
Insight The Four Parts of Privacyin India Bhairav Acharya Privacy enjoys an abundance of meanings. It is claimed in diverse situations every day by everyone against other people, society and the state. Traditionally traced to classical liberalism's public-private divide, there are now several... Read more	Review of Urban Affairs / Review Issues Data, Urbanisation and the City Anant Maringanti, Partha Mukhopadhyay By using the enormous processing capacity of computing that is now available, we can, it is claimed, improve how cities are governed--make them smart! This review attempts to illuminate how data reveals relationships between citizens and the... Read more
Review of Urban Affairs / Review Issues Big Data to Improve Urban Planning Rohan Samarajiva, Sriganesh Lokanathan, Kaushalya Madhawa, Gabriel Kreindler, Danaja Maldeniya Data analytics is a frontier field where the tools and techniques are still being developed. Expertise, a critical input, is in short supply, the other being access to data. Even so, Colombo-based LIRNEasia has demonstrated the value of mobile... Read more	Review of Urban Affairs / Review Issues Reading Spatial Inequality in Urban India Gautam Bhan, Arindam Jana Where one lives matters because patterns of spatial inequality shape the horizons of urban lives. They also critically affect urban policies, especially in large metropolitan cities where intra-urban differences can be of very large magnitudes.... Read more
Review of Urban Affairs / Review Issues Spatial Inequalities in Big Indian Cities Pranav Sidhwani Using ward-level data released by the census, the paper carries out a study of residential segregation in the 10 most populated Indian cities. It finds that there is significant residential segregation by caste and also by access to in-house... Read more	Review of Urban Affairs / Review Issues Sub-cities of Bengaluru Urban Heterogeneity through Empirical Typologies Krishnachandran Balakrishnan, Shriya Anand Sub-city typologies could enable a better understanding of urban heterogeneity. Ward-level Population Enumeration Data, and Houselisting and Housing Census Data from the 2011 Census is here used to construct sub-city typologies for Bengaluru.... Read more
Review of Urban Affairs / Review Issues Surveying Slums Process of Survey and Use of Data Shahana Sheikh, Subhadra Banda With an increased policy emphasis on slum surveys, the story of such surveys in Delhi assumes importance, including the "power to survey" vested in the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board. There is a need to closely analyse the way in... Read more	Special Articles Estimates and Analysis of Farm Income in India, 1983-84 to 2011-12 Ramesh Chand, Raka Saxena, Simmi Rana This paper presents estimates of farmers' incomes from agriculture over the past three decades. The income earned by farmers from agricultural activities after paying for input costs and the wages for hired labour has seen low to high growth in... Read more
Special Articles From Primitive Accumulation to Regimes of Dispossession Six Theses on India’s Land Question Michael Levien Existing theoretical perspectives, whether Marx's primitive accumulation or Harvey's accumulation by dispossession, are not adequate for understanding the political economy of land dispossession under capitalism--in India or elsewhere. This paper... Read more	Notes Mystery of Private Corporate Sector Saving K G K Subba Rao In the revised series of National Accounts (base year 2011-12), the sectoral coverage of the private corporate sector has been widened to include quasi-corporations, while the Central Statistics Office has begun compiling an estimate of the... Read more
Postscript Prisoners’ Dilemma Gopalkrishna Gandhi As undertrials continue to languish in Indian jails, only humaneness in prison reform can alleviate their condition of unfreedom—and set free their creative genius. Read more	Postscript Gazing, Leering, Prying Madhu Singh The use of hidden cameras in private spaces like changing rooms shows how the male gaze objectifies women in an act of chauvinistic aggression. Read more
Postscript Speak, Memory Shyam G Menon If music be the food of love, play on, said the Bard, whose emotions are echoed in this piece by a hopelessly romantic wanderer.