Editorials
On 25 June, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met more than 500 heads of urban local bodies from all over the country. The New Delhi meeting was also an occasion to unveil flagship schemes for “rejuvenating urban centres” in the country....
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Commentary
Sopore in north Kashmir is in the grip of fear and anxiety after six people were killed in less than a month's time. Separatist and militant groups blame the government and security agencies for the killings, while security forces claim the...
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Commentary
With the execution of the Land Boundary Agreement between India and Bangladesh, issues relating to the border enclaves are fi nally in the process of being resolved. Concerns surrounding the effective implementation of the Agreement remain, such...
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Commentary
The uproar over net neutrality ignores the fact that the net has not been neutral for many years. It is neither feasible nor desirable to return to an imagined state of original innocence. At the same time, the ideal of an internet driven by...
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Commentary
Carnatic music preserves its classical identity not only through its musicality, but also by carefully creating and enforcing codes of conduct based on caste, gender, culture, aesthetics, and attire for both artistes and connoisseurs. This...
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Commentary
A report on an ecumenical event held in Kanpur that was organised by the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind .
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Commentary
The restructuring of central plan assistance to states proposed in the Union Budget for 2015-16 will result in neutralising the benefi t of an increase in unconditional tax devolution proposed by the Fourteenth Finance Commission, by imposing...
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Commentary
K C Sivaramakrishnan, who passed away recently, was the rare bureaucrat who brought his field-level experiences to bear on his understanding of the defi cits of the country's democratic system. A tenacious crusader for decentralisation,...
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Book Reviews
Punjab's Economic Development in the Era of Globalisation edited by Inderjeet Singh, Sukhwinder Singh and Lakhwinder Singh, Delhi: LG Publishers, 2014; pp 383, Rs 1,035.
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Book Reviews
Education and Federalism in India by M R Kolhatkar, Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2012; pp 348, Rs 975.
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Book Reviews
Skills and Skilled Work: An Economic and Social Analysis by Francis Green, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2013; pp 240, £26.99.
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Book Reviews
An Unfinished Agenda: My Life in the Pharmaceutical Industry by K Anji Reddy, New Delhi: Portfolio, Penguin India, 2015; pp 270, Rs 699.
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Perspectives
The National Judicial Appointments Commission system for appointing judges is unconstitutional for four reasons. There is potential for its misuse as appointments to the higher judiciary will be controlled by the executive branch of the...
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Housing Discrimination
This study attempts to identify the forms of discrimination experienced by Dalits and Muslims in the rental housing market in five metropolitan areas of the National Capital Region of Delhi. A combination of three distinct methods, the telephonic...
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Housing Discrimination
The paper begins by acknowledging that scholarship in India has neglected the concept of fraternity for a long time, though today research in other parts of the world seeks to locate it either on the side of "horizontal solidarity" or in...
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Special Articles
This paper examines the fragmentary production and governance of Gurgaon, Haryana. Based on fieldwork carried out in 2012, it asserts an epistemology of the "exception" as the central mode of urban production in the city. To do so, the paper...
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Special Articles
Identifying the barriers that discourage the adoption of integrated resource planning by Indian power distribution companies, this paper points to feasible conditions in which these could be overcome. Using the case of the Bangalore Electricity...
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Special Articles
In recent times India has become a haven for commercial surrogacy, a controversial assisted reproductive technology. Acute poverty means that there are always women ready to rent their wombs. But lack of laws and regulations means there is no...
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Notes
This note tries to capture what has been attempted in the Land Acquisition Act, 2013 and the ordinance to amend it that has been hitherto promulgated thrice. It discusses in detail the provisions on public purpose, social impact assessment,...
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Notes
India's information technology hardware segment is heavily dependent on imports of components and finished goods. After surveying Tamil Nadu's hardware electronics sector, this article argues that the stagnation of the electronics...
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Discussion
This response to Arjun Kumar's "Discrepancies in Sanitation Statistics of Rural India" (EPW, 10 January 2015) points out that the article does not mention another gap in official data: omission of households that reside in...
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Commentary
The financial implications of the "one rank, one pension scheme" for the armed forces, and other associated issues, are quite startling. Even if the government must accept the scheme, having committed itself to it, the issue of its...
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Review of Rural Affairs / Review Issues
In an economy that is transforming rapidly, both economically and spatially, the boundaries between rural and urban areas have become blurred. In practice, the rural-urban divide is more accurately characterised as a rural-urban gradation. Labour...
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Review of Rural Affairs / Review Issues
Migrant labourers, free from rural bondage, are now bonded to other sources of debt, contracted from the agro-industry or construction sectors. The flows of migration in the brick-making and sugar cane sectors in Tamil Nadu, where bondage...
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Review of Rural Affairs / Review Issues
Seasonal employment in the rural economy at a wage rate below subsistence level forces underprivileged labourers to migrate for survival. Brick kilns in India are a major destination for migrant labourers, who are tied to them for the production...
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Review of Rural Affairs / Review Issues
Presenting an exploratory approach by which quantitative data from the National Sample Survey can be analysed to throw light on the most marginal households whose primary occupation is recorded as mining and quarrying, this paper finds that a...
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Review of Rural Affairs / Review Issues
An analysis of 40 years of water management research and outreach in India using data from 34 centres and 5,000 field trials across 23 states shows that of the 502 technologies released, only 110 technologies (22%) have been transferred...
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Review of Rural Affairs / Review Issues
Even if we concede that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is designed as a demand-driven programme, and that local residents desire to have work projects in their area, whether it translates into effective demand, and...
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