Special Articles
This article is based on the findings of a recent survey of the midday meal programme in Madhya Pradesh. Comparison of the new 'suruchi bhojan' with the old 'daliya' programme in the government primary schools in the survey area and observations...
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Margin Speak
Justice is a far cry today. The judicial process has been hijacked by the wealthy and the powerful. Witness the course of Salman Khan's "hit and run case," or the net result of J Jayalalithaa's "disproportionate assets case...
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Commentary
The need of the hour is to salvage Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code from the shackles of adverse propaganda and "misuse" by the media, goaded on by men's rights groups from the urban and privileged classes, and restore it as a...
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Commentary
An analysis of the Jharkhand assembly elections held in 2014 helps us understand the discourse of Adivasi politics in the state and throws light on the assertions about the receding space for Adivasi politics and the declining significance of...
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Commentary
The Kerala government's move towards total prohibition has raised serious concerns about its impact on the state exchequer. The strong grip of alcohol on the state's social and cultural bonds has been enabled by a combination of political...
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Commentary
Historian, teacher, public intellectual, Amalendu Guha was a pioneer in more ways than one. His forays into Assam's history established him as one of India's foremost economic historians. Guha's insights on the complex interplay of...
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Commentary
A tribute to V V Bhatt, a pioneering economist of the post-independence decades, who at the Reserve Bank of India led a group of economists in creative and independent thinking, not afraid of speaking their minds.
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Book Reviews
Bengal Marxism: Early Discourses and Debates by Anuradha Roy, Samya: Kolkata, 2014; pp xii +216, Rs 600.
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Book Reviews
Gender, Identity and Violence: Female Deselection in India by Rainuka Dagar, Routledge: New Delhi, 2014; pp 325, Rs 795.
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Perspectives
The cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo, and their compatriots in other parts of the world, who lost their lives for daring to laugh at holy cows, are martyrs to the cause of humour.
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Perspectives
This article draws parallels between the seemingly disconnected responses from the Muslim and the Western worlds to the Charlie Hebdo affair to argue that these demonstrated the disciplinary power of the globally ascendant idea that public...
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Special Articles
Up to the 20th century, city self-government and self-financing was historically the norm. Then both a major slump and two world wars impelled in Europe the centralisation of government powers in national states. It was this degree of...
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Special Articles
India's post-reform economic development has seen a sustained decline in the labour intensity of the organised manufacturing sector, including in labour-intensive industries. This paper argues that this occurred due to an increase in the real...
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Special Articles
Analysing the wage rise for Indian rural unskilled male labourers and its effect on inflation, this study tests theoretical priors derived from concepts of fair wages using a state-level panel, correlation of inflation peaks, and sectoral changes...
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Notes
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme--despite its failings and dismissals by prominent economists as a "dole"--is in consonance with the idea of sustainable development whose important cardinal components are...
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Discussion
Rajmohan Gandhi's assertion that Arundhati Roy has taken statements made decades ago out of context and not provided the sources for her arguments are turned against him. This response to Gandhi's "Independence and Social Justice...
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