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The Car Credo

Vol - L No. 31, August 01, 2015 

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A car-friendly city is a danger to democracy.

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Parliament Deadlocked

Vol - L No. 31, August 01, 2015 

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Obstructionist tactics are becoming tiresome and the Opposition may be tiring too.

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Editorials Environmental Word Games When a minister redefines forest diversion as reforestation, we should be worried. Read more	Commentary The Public Education System and What the Costs Imply Kiran Bhatty, Anuradha De, Rathin Roy There are basic methodological and conceptual problems with recent research that ends up arguing that private school education is more effective than public education. Such findings have obvious policy implications but it is critical that... Read more
Commentary Circumstances of the Iran Nuclear Deal Imran Barlas Iran's pursuit of independent policies brought it into a long-standing conflict with the US. The present nuclear deal is a vindication of Iran's independent stand. Read more	Commentary Israel as a Historic Mistake For the US, a Burden Too Heavy to Bear Sukumar Muralidharan The original sin of Israel's birth has scarred it for life and it remains incapable of finding an identity that would meet basic democratic norms. Its neighbourhood in West Asia has had no option but to accept its truculent presence.All... Read more
Commentary Access to India's Biodiversity and Sharing Its Benefits Kanchi Kohli, Shalini Bhutani The Biological Diversity Act, 2002 is meant to fulfil the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity, to which India became a party in 1994. In its 10-year history, a key issue that has dominated the implementation of the act is access... Read more	Commentary Critical Cartography and India's Map Policy Swasti Vardhan Mishra Looking at maps as instruments of sovereignty and evaluating them with the tools of critical cartography, this commentary analyses the unbalanced implementation of India's National Map Policy. The policy ostensibly directs its energy towards... Read more
Commentary Simplicity Incarnate Remembering V M Rao R S Deshpande Intellectual humility and a knack for making complex ideas transparent made agricultural economist V M Rao's work both important and influential. A warm person and an excellent teacher, he will be missed. Read more	Book Reviews The Reluctant Minister Kalpana Sharma Green Signals: Ecology, Growth and Democracy in Indiaby Jairam Ramesh, Oxford University Press, 2015; pp 604, Rs 850. Read more
Book Reviews New Urban Displacement Anurag Mazumdar Displacement, Revolution and the New Urban Condition: Theories and Case Studies by Ipsita Chatterjee, New Delhi: Sage, 2014; pp 158, Rs 645. Read more	Perspectives A Subaltern View of Climate Change Dunu Roy In the context of the ongoing debate on climate change and the policies that nation states need to adopt to limit the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the author poses a relevant question: instead of asking what would happen to... Read more
Special Articles What Does an MA Know? Postgraduate Learning Deficits and the Diploma Disease in Social Sciences V Kalyan Shankar, Rohini Sahni The annual Pratham surveys point to deficits of learning endemic to Indian schools. But what if these deficits are being carried forward and sustained in higher education? This paper shows that the results of a survey conducted among postgraduate... Read more	Special Articles Agrarian Performance and Food Price Inflation in India Pre- and Post-Economic Liberalisation Sthanu R Nair, Leena Mary Eapen Examining long-term trends in food inflation in India in relation to the performance of the Indian agricultural sector under various agrarian policy regimes, this paper shows that despite the slowdown in the agricultural sector and higher... Read more
Special Articles Tristão Bragança Cunha and Nationalism in Colonial Goa Parag D Parobo Unlike other Indian nationalists, the Goan nationalist Tristão Bragança Cunha did not attempt to create a monolithic nationalist formation, he celebrated hybridisation instead. Bragança was involved in detaching the idea of... Read more	Notes Circuits of Authenticity Anirudh Raghavan, Syeda Asia, Vanshika Singh Mumbai has the highest density of Parsis, who established some of the city's earliest restaurants and catering businesses. Parsi food has a prominent place in the cultural landscape of the city, and travel guides and reviews insist "... Read more
Notes World of the Third Pranab Kanti Basu Recent analyses of the discursive exclusion of the "world of the third" from the development discourse are theoretically acute and provoke one to rethink postcoloniality. These constitute the rich literature on India's postcolonial... Read more	Discussion A Decade of Disaster and Aid in Nicobar Ajay Saini Read more
Postscript A Loud and Convincing Voice Nabina Das An account of a personal encounter with Gregory Pardlo, the American poet who won the 2015 Pulitzer prize in poetry for his collection Digest. Read more	Postscript No Sweat M S Prabhakara Watching films in air-conditioned theatres these days is an experience bereft of the sweaty pleasures of the days of yore, according to a long-time cinemagoer. Read more
Postscript The Usual Suspects Thangkhanlal Ngaihte The Delhi Metro’s warning against “suspicious persons” is a sorry comment on the dangers of racial profiling and stereotyping in the fight against terror. Read more	Postscript Drying Ink Kanchan Gandhi The internationally acclaimed traditional art form of kalamkari fabric design and production is in danger of extinction. Read more
Web Exclusives The Man Who Returned On Yakub Memon Jyoti Punwani The state betrayed Yakub Memon, a man who maintained his decision to surrender and cooperate with investigative authorities till the very end.