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When Silence Is Not an Option

Vol - L No. 42, October 17, 2015 

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The "award wapsi" reminds us of the place of literature in society.

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Competition to Sell Medicines

Vol - L No. 42, October 17, 2015 

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The battle between chemists and online pharmacies must be decisively resolved.

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Comment Why Farmers Respond Differently to Higher Food Prices Similar market incentives do not induce uniform behaviour. Read more	Commentary Neither Brake Nor Accelerator Assessing India’s Climate Contribution Navroz K Dubash, Radhika Khosla What does India's Intended Nationally Determined Contribution imply for its approach to climate negotiations? And what implications does it have for domestic development choices? This article examines India's INDC through each lens, to... Read more
Commentary A Flawed Climate Road Map Nagraj Adve, Ashish Kothari India submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution on 1 October. The policy document on climate change has received laurels from diverse quarters. INDC justifies the projected rise in India's emissions by emphasising the country... Read more	Commentary Punjab at the Crossroads Paramjit S Judge Punjab has been going through a churn in its society and its economy for some time and now its bipolar politics is being stirred with the emergence of the Aam Aadmi Party. Will these socio-economic transformations be strong enough to upset the... Read more
Commentary Narrator of Subaltern War Cries Nabarun Bhattacharya and the Literature of Dissidence Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha Nabarun Bhattacharya's prose of counter-insurgency would continue to provide the necessary grammar of resistance to an otherwise somnolent and complaisant literary establishment in Bengal. Read more	Commentary Commodification of 'Giving Back' in a Neo-liberal World Jahnavi Sen New ways of organising gifting of time and/or money are growing at unprecedented rates. They legitimise the capitalist system by providing the "human face" of the market. This article examines the trend of "philanthropic... Read more
Book Reviews Towards Integrated History Tirthankar Roy Modern Times: India 1880s-1950s by Sumit Sarkar,Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2014; pp xiv+464, Rs 895(hardback). Read more	Book Reviews Little-known Communist Movement Radical Left in Pakistan Aasim Sajjad Communism in Pakistan: Politics and Class Activism 1947-1972 by Kamran Asdar Ali, London/New York: I B Tauris, 2015; pp 304, $80. Read more
Insight Exclusion within the Excluded The Economic Divide within Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Ashish Singh, Kaushalendra Kumar, Abhishek Singh An investigation into the trends in economic disparities within the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for the past three decades (1983-2012) shows that the economic disparity ratio has increased substantially for both SCs and STs. The... Read more	Special Articles An Egalitarian Green Growth Programme for India Robert Pollin, Shouvik Chakraborty This paper explores the interrelationships in India between economic growth, expanding employment opportunities and the imperative of dramatically reducing CO2 emissions. Specifically, it shows that within a framework of economic growth, the... Read more
Special Articles Reforming School Social Science Curriculum in India Issues and Challenges M V Srinivasan Social science syllabi and textbooks at the school level are highly contentious curricular material in India. This essay traces the historical roots of the current situation to the structural and epistemological foundations of higher education.... Read more	Special Articles White Elephant or a Game Changer? An Analysis of National Optical Fibre Network of India Nalini Srinivasan, P Vigneswara Ilavarasan The National Optical Fibre Network is being implemented largely by public sector organisations in the country. NOFN will connect 2,50,000 gram panchayats. It aims to deliver information and communication technology-based goods and services to the... Read more
Notes Families of Murder Victims What the State and Society Owes Them Penelope Tong This article examines the psychological conditions of the surviving family members of murder victims in India and points out the inadequacies in the formulated and reactionary responses of the state and community. These responses are often... Read more	Notes Revealed Comparative Advantage and Decomposition of Export Growth Case of India’s Selected Rubber Products Joby Joseph, Tharian George K Using the revealed comparative index and the method of constant market share analysis, this article attempts to identify the relative advantage/disadvantage of select rubber products exported from India and decompose the contributory factors... Read more
Economic Notes RBI Annual Report 2014-15 In Need of Close Study R Krishnaswamy, S L Shetty Read more	Document Mob Lynching in Dadri A Report Extracts from “A Report on the Mob Lynching and Attack on a Muslim Family in Bishara Village of Dadri Tehsil, Gautam Buddha Nagar District of Uttar Pradesh”: