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The Antisocial Media

Vol - L No. 30, July 25, 2015 

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The new democratic space is being overrun by a viciousness which threatens its very nature.

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The Hanging Question

Vol - L No. 30, July 25, 2015 

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Is the death penalty justifi ed within an iniquitous justice system?

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Editorials Death of the 'Development Round'? Fourteen years after the Doha Round was launched, plans are on to empty it of its original content. Read more	Stratrgic Affairs Making Sense of the Iran Nuclear Deal Srinath Raghavan The nuclear deal between Iran and the Western powers could lead to some major changes in the geopolitics of West Asia. Even though there remains fairly strong domestic opposition to the deal in both camps, the historically important strategic... Read more
H T Parekh Finance Column Greece: Strophe and Antistrophe Avinash Persaud The Greek tragedy contains more than its fair share of irony. Perhaps the biggest irony of all is that in the drafting of the Maastricht Treaty on Economic and Monetary Union in the late 1990s, it was Germany that insisted on the “no... Read more	Commentary Socio Economic Caste Census Has It Ignored T oo Many Poor Households? N C Saxena A survey to identify who the poor are and how many are actually poor is necessary if programmes and benefits targeted at the needy are to reach them. The Socio Economic Caste Census, of which partial results have been published, was intended to... Read more
Commentary Addressing Loss and Damage from Climate Change Impacts Lavanya Rajamani The 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held in Paris from 30 November 2015 to 11 December 2015, will need to resolve several long-standing issues pertaining to climate-induced loss... Read more	Commentary The Indian National Army Towards a Balanced and Critical Appraisal Chandar S Sundaram The Indian National Army usually evokes passionate responses in India. Its Commander-in-Chief Subhas Chandra Bose is the subject of several hagiographies and the army is often eulogised as the second front of the Indian Freedom Struggle. It has... Read more
Commentary Business of Hospitals Manu Kanchan Serious ethical implications emerge when private hospitals are run as corporate entities and doctors working in these hospitals are given targets to bring in a certain number of patients for hospitalisation and conduct a certain number of... Read more	Commentary Democracy and Anti-terrorism Laws Experience of UAPA, 1967 in Punjab Jatinder Singh The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 provides complete impunity to the law-enforcing agencies to conduct their activities in an unlawful manner. The judiciary has also become an accomplice. The presence of this act in Indian law statute... Read more
Commentary Why Yakub Memon Should Not Be Hanged Manoj Joshi Yakub Memon is guilty only of playing a peripheral role in the 1993 terrorist bombings in Mumbai (then Bombay). Hanging him serves no purpose other than satisfying the bloodlust of society. It is for the Indian judicial system to reflect on... Read more	Commentary Ajit Singh (1940-2015) A Formidable Economist Prabhat Patnaik A tribute to the economist, Ajit Singh, who taught at the University of Cambridge and recently at Panjab University. Read more
Book Reviews A Palimpsest for Development Venu Madhav Govindu Thinking Small : The United States and the Lure of Community Development by Daniel Immerwahr, Harvard University Press, 2015; pp 272, $35. Read more	Book Reviews Remembrance of LTTE's Past Karthick Ram Manoharan A Fleeting Moment in My Country: The Last Years of the LTTE De Facto State by N Malathy; New Delhi: Aakar Books, 2013; pp 176, Rs 225. Read more
Book Reviews Monuments as Markers of Minority Identity Mursed Alam, Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India:Monuments, Memory, Contestation by Hilal Ahmed,Delhi: Routledge, 2014; pp 344, Rs 850. Read more	Perspectives Achilles' Heel of Public Policy Information and Limited Institutions Capacity M H Suryanarayana An inadequate information base and limited institutional capacity for policy formulation seem to be important factors constraining India's public policy pursuits. A look at the major recommendations of the Report of the High Level Committee on... Read more
Special Articles Appraising the Debate on Biodiversity Conservation in the Western Ghats Aravindhan Nagarajan, Kamal K Murari, T Jayaraman, Goutham Radhakrishnan This critical review and comparison of the Gadgil and Kasturirangan panel reports on the Western Ghats highlights various concerns related to their methodology, recommendations, and the manner in which they resolve the contradictions between the... Read more	Special Articles Urban Water Systems in India Typologies and Hypotheses Mihir Shah, Himanshu Kulkarni Urban water and waste water management have not been relatively well understood in India. The Indian urban space has been considered in an undifferentiated manner, which ignores the specificities deriving from different stages of urban... Read more
Special Articles Confronting the State Land Rights Discourse in the Hills of Manipur Hoineilhing Sitlhou The relationship between land and identity in the hills of Manipur encompasses both "geographical territory" and "cultural territory." The colonial and postcolonial states are external actors that have restructured the society. They have... Read more	Notes Gandhi and the Debate about Civilisation Lloyd I Rudolph, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph For Gandhi, the national question was much more than a struggle between two culturally-defined civilisations. For him, getting rid of colonial rule was part of a larger project to replace and resist modern civilisation. This article situates... Read more
Discussion Response to Arundhati Roy Rajmohan Gandhi Continuing with the discussion around "The Doctor and the Saint," Rajmohan Gandhi counters Arundhati Roy's response in four areas--Gandhi and the Blacks of South Africa, Gandhi and caste, Gandhi and Ambedkar, and the subject of...