Editorials
Simply passing laws is not enough to root out witch-hunts and killings.
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Commentary
An explanation of the crisis in Greece, its antecedents and causes and how it is being used to take over Greek sovereignty in a coup by the imperialist powers. What now for the project of a unifi ed Europe?
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Commentary
Instead of an international bankruptcy court to reform the wrongs of a debtor, a mere return to the first principles of law can save a nation from the indignity of being carted into court against its will.
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Commentary
As part of its attempt to improve growth, the government has put forth the Labour Code on Industrial Relations Bill, which amalgamates the provisions of the Industrial Disputes Act and the Trade Union Act. In spite of some positive features, the...
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Commentary
In the run-up to the Delhi elections in February 2015, the Aam Aadmi Party turned out to be a haven for all those who were looking for alternative politics even as large sections of the impoverished joined it. In government, the party now faces...
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Book Reviews
Army and Nation: The Military and Indian Democracy since Independence by Steven I Wilkinson, Permanent Black in association with Ashoka University, 2015; pp 295, Rs 795.
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Book Reviews
Revolutionary Pamphlets, Propaganda and Political Culture in Colonial Bengal by Shukla Sanyal, New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2014; pp 211, Rs 695.
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Perspectives
The introduction of the goods and services tax may indeed be the biggest reform of taxation so far, but the proposal, as it stands, has led to confusion. Certainly, the myriad taxes producers face will be simplified. But the benefit will go to...
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Special Articles
This paper helps correct two common misconceptions about the origins of the Bretton Woods institutions. The first is that the negotiations were primarily an Anglo-American affair in which developing countries had little input. The second is that...
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Special Articles
Pervasive greed in contemporary medical practice does not spare even the poorest of the patients. Medical expenses are now considered one of the major triggers of impoverishment in the country. A rapid influx of advanced technologies in areas...
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Special Articles
The State continues to support Urdu medium schools under the constitutional obligation to provide primary education in the child's mother tongue. However, those educated in Urdu find their employment prospects rather bleak. They are also unable...
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Notes
The polarising debate around a nine-year-old tiger who killed a forest guard in Ranthambhore National Park, and was eventually relocated, will serve little to address complex problems of conservation. This article focuses on the scientifi c and...
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Economic Notes
Revisiting the MCA-21-based estimates of the size of the private corporate sector in the rebased National Accounts Statistics, it is argued that the use of a single blow-up factor for non-government non-financial public and private limited...
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Postscript
Despite the recent brouhaha over the safety of the popular Maggi brand of noodles, there are many who still swear by the humble cup of stringy comfort food.
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Postscript
The capital of Himachal Pradesh, once the summer retreat of the British Raj, has been transformed from the historical, colonial “Simla” to the contemporary, urbanised “Shimla....
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Postscript
Running a marathon calls for intensity, grace—and also a reminder of what the human spirit is capable of achieving.
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Postscript
The Economics of Incentives
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