Editorials
Safety consciousness and disaster management awareness is sorely missing in Indian society.
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Strategic Aaffairs
Cyber technology offers emancipatory possibilities. It also allows coercive regimes to intrude into people's privacy. The shape the internet takes will hinge, to a great extent, on how Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and Japan,...
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Commentary
Bernie Sanders, who aims at being the Democratic Party's nominee for the President of the US, has earned an unexpected following with his staunch critique of the super-rich and his promise to reduce glaring class inequalities. But his...
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Commentary
The Revised Draft of the Indian Financial Code's proposal to establish a Monetary Policy Committee with a majority of government nominees and no veto power to the Reserve Bank of India Governor have attracted a lot of attention. However, the...
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Commentary
The National Food Security Act, 2013, which promised subsidised foodgrains to 75% of the rural and 50% of the urban population of our country, is not catching attention any more as the state governments and the union government are silently...
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Commentary
To make public service delivery mechanism more accountable, transparent and responsive, the Government of Maharashtra enacted the Right to Public Services Act, 2015 in August this year. Given the state bureaucracy's reluctance to implement...
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Commentary
In 2009, the government launched the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan to bolster secondary education in the country. Six years later, access to secondary education remains a distant reality. This article looks at the issues that bedevil RMSA...
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Commentary
A proposed amendment to the Consumer Protection Act, 1986, gives the right to a consumer to set aside an unfair contract, and cancel, at will, a contract within 30 days of receiving the goods or services. A proposed Consumer Protection Authority...
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Book Reviews
Globalisation, Democracy and Corruption: An Indian Perspective by Pranab Bardhan, London: Frontpage Publications, 2015; pp x + 250, price not indicated.
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Book Reviews
Researching International Migration: Lessons from the Kerala Experienceby K C Zachariah and S Irudaya Rajan, London and New Delhi: Routledge, 2015; pp xv+272, Rs 795.
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Special Articles
For all their evident differences, what makes contemporary India and South Africa together so compelling is the coincidence of neo-liberal forms of capitalism generating intense inequality and "surplus" populations, liberal and popular...
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Special Articles
Historically, the Nicobarese of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands have lived in isolation with sporadic cross-cultural contact. Relying on the traditional knowledge and the resources provided by their ecosystem, the indigenes subsisted...
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Special Articles
Liberalising imports by reducing tariffs and removing non-tariff barriers has been one of the most important aspects of the economic reforms pursued in India since the 1990s. The idea was to expose domestic enterprises to international...
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Notes
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Postscript
The disputation over Telugu highlights the need to protect our linguistic integrity and federal diversity in the face of the hegemony of a few globalised languages.
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Postscript
In the work of Satyajit Ray can be found a tinge of fatalism, a sense of detachment and an ethos that finds joy in birth and life, even as it accepts death with an amazing grace.
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Postscript
The women of the Meitei community of Manipur have long depended on the cosmetic power of chinghi, a traditional haircare lotion.
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