Comment
Seamlessly weaving glamour, sensuousness and spirituality, Radhe Maa has redefined the spirituality market.
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Strategic Affairs
Despite professing Non-Alignment, India effectively became a pawn in the hands of the Western powers as it walked into the trap of the 1962 Sino-Indian war. As a new Cold War builds up between China and the United States, would India be able to...
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Commentary
In 1927, an iconic struggle of the Dalits in Mahad, in modern day Maharashtra, had to take a step back in spite of overwhelming enthusiasm of the community. Nearly nine decades later, in Pathapally in India's youngest state, Telangana, a more...
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Commentary
With its latest endeavour to collect mass DNA data, the government spreads its net far too wide and falls short of constitutional rights to liberty and privacy.
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Commentary
It is meaningful to evaluate the Reserve Bank of India's monetary stance through the prism of the Taylor Rule, even if it is inadvisable to apply it mechanically.
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Commentary
A time series of exports indicates that average export growth has remained almost stagnant since January 2012 after a sharp bounce back in the first and second quarters of 2009. This article looks at the composition of India's export basket,...
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Commentary
The meeting to draw up a climate change regime for 2020 and beyond in Paris later this year will, as usual, be fraught with overwhelming complexity. Will "climate clubs" be able to offer room for making greater efforts in smaller groups...
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Commentary
A tribute to P A Sebastian, the indefatigable lawyer-crusader for democratic rights, who organised and established the phenomenon of "people's tribunals" in India.
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Commentary
The blockbuster Bajrangi Bhaijaan rescues Hinduism from Hindutva and restores it to what it remains to a large extent even today--a loose faith which in some ways embodies the spirit of "live and let live."
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Book Reviews
The State of Labour: The Global Financial Crisis and Its Impact edited by Sharit K Bhowmik; New Delhi: Routledge, 2014; pp xxvii + 342, Rs 895.
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Book Reviews
The Political Philosophies of Antonio Gramsci and B R Ambedkar: Itineraries of Dalits and Subalterns edited by Cosimo Zene; London and New York: Routledge, 2013; pp 242, $90 (hbk).
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Perspectives
One of the greatest unmet challenges of contemporary India has been education. The state has not been able to live up to its self-professed role of providing education to all. It is necessary, in a context of massive and rapid changes brought...
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Special Articles
Dalit castes in Punjab such as the Chamars have been attempting to create a counterculture to take on the Dalit castes in Punjab such as the Chamars have been attempting to create a counterculture to take on the dominant Jat caste. This attempt...
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Special Issues
The law and policy frameworks for allocation or reallocation of water to different uses, or within a category of use, remain underdeveloped in India. This paper intends providing a starting point for a conversation on the law and policy...
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Notes
While insufficient sanitation facilities often get represented in statistics and are reported in the literature on urban infrastructure planning and contested urban spaces, what is often left out is the everyday practice and experience of going...
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Discussion
This article carries forward the discussion on the controversy between M K Gandhi and B R Ambedkar occasioned by Arundhati Roy's essay, "The Doctor and the Saint." It takes note of Rajmohan Gandhi's criticisms of Roy in "...
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