Comment
The use of environmentally-hazardous campaign material needs to be curbed.
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Commentary
An exploration of what the Andaman and Nicobar Islands mean to India--as a nation and as a state. This article suggests that the manner in which it has been visualised as a peg in the country's geopolitical strategy reduces the possibilities...
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Commentary
The singular focus on cultural aspects of food habits in India--meat eating and its associated sociocultural meanings--has rendered the debate on animal vulnerability invisible. While many countries are now seeking a way out of large-scale...
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Commentary
India's support for the establishment of an intergovernmental tax committee at the United Nations is a move towards a more just global tax regime. This article examines some of the key deficiencies in the existing system, reasons why an...
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Commentary
The upcoming assembly elections in Bihar are expected to be unprecedented on several counts. Following a miserable defeat of their parties in Lok Sabha 2014 elections, two so-called arch enemies Lalu Yadav and Nitish Kumar have joined forces,...
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Commentary
Ramaswamy R Iyer was a civil servant but he was constantly posing questions to accepted wisdom on issues relating to water. His body of work and frequent interventions on matters of public policy relating to water came to represent an alternative...
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Review Article
An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital by Michael Heinrich (translated by Alexander Locascio), New Delhi: Aakar Books for South Asia, 2013; pp 240, Rs 295, paperback.
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Perspectives
Political theorists no doubt have to take the history of injustice, for example, untouchability, seriously. But, the beginning point of repair of historical injustice is the "here" and the "now," the democratic context that...
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Special Articles
Keeping Kashmir's history at the centre of debate, this article makes a brief survey of some of the popular history textbooks of modern India. Arguing that modern Indian historiography has been replete with various "silences" when it comes to...
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Special Articles
Examining trends of foreign exchange use of a consistent sample of foreign affiliated manufacturing firms over the post-reform years, it is found that these firms have a tendency to cause net foreign currency losses at the aggregate level, as...
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Special Articles
While Indian cities experience newer challenges, and city visions are increasingly grandiose, planning continues to be straitjacketed. Looking specifically at the process so far in the creation of Mumbai's third Development Plan, the article...
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Notes
Pakistan's nuclear planners have sought to develop and plan deployment of the short-range Nasr tactical missile to deliver nuclear weapons against advancing Indian armoured forces. This article explores the limited utility of the use of...
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Notes
Assam was a Congress stronghold in the post-Congress era. However, the 2014 Lok Sabha elections marked a signifi cant political shift with the Bharatiya Janata Party making significant inroads. The trend continued with the recent elections to the...
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Discussion
This note outlines the methodological reasons for the (small) differences in estimates of leakages from the public distribution system in 2011-12, as reported in Himanshu and Abhijit Sen (EPW, 16 and 23 November 2013) and Drèze and Khera (...
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Postscript
As far as teacher training in higher education is concerned, the University Grants Commission seems to have got it all wrong.
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Postscript
The Olympic motto in Latin for “Faster, Higher, Stronger” may well bring on a paroxysm of passion as sports fans argue over which is the best sport in the world.
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Postscript
As the state promotes the predominant use of Hindi, there is a danger of India slowly becoming a one-language nation sans a multilingual and federal identity.
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