Editorials
The proposed surrogacy law should not be a hurried "look-good" response from the government.
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Commentary
As sterilisation scandals abound, a consensus is emerging for a shift away from sterilisation towards a larger "basket" of contraceptive choices and concomitant improvements in service delivery. That such a shift needs to take place is...
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Commentary
What makes India special is the fact that it has always had multiple traditions of written and oral, text-based and homespun ideas that have been deep and thought-provoking, creative and exquisitely beautiful. The tradition of freedom of speech...
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Commentary
A left public sphere, the site of rational debates and democratic politics, is virtually a thing of the past today. A failure to engage with traditional identities like caste and religion and the inability to grapple with the changes in the post-...
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Commentary
In 2004, the then newly elected state government introduced a policy to provide free electricity to farmers during off-peak hours to help activities like irrigation. This policy was heavily criticised due to the costs it entailed as well as its...
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Commentary
The Indian Railways has big plans for speeding up its trains. It has invited foreign collaboration to kick-start high-speed trains. However, its current crop of trains labelled as superfast just cruise along at an average speed of 55 kilometres...
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Book Reviews
Saving Wild India: A Blueprint for Change by Valmik Thapar; New Delhi: Aleph Book Company, 2015; pp 145, Rs 499.
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Book Reviews
When Godavari Comes: People's History of a River--Journeys in the Zone of the Dispossessed by R Umamaheshwari, New Delhi: Aakar Books, 2014; pp 486 + xviii, Rs 595.
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Perspectives
The Hindu notions of purity and pollution, inextricably linked with the caste system and the practice of untouchability, underlie the unsanitary practices in Indian society. These beliefs perpetuate the oppression of the "polluted castes," who...
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Review of Women's Studies / Review Issues
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Review of Women's Studies / Review Issues
This paper explores the voice of the urban middle-class youth in the current struggle against patriarchy, focusing on Hyderabad. Within this broad topic, it focuses on the group 'Hyderabad for Feminism', and the kinds of questions,...
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Review of Women's Studies / Review Issues
This paper highlights the escalating incidence of sexual violence against Dalit girls by Jats in contemporary Haryana, and the extraordinary struggles unfolding in the battle for justice. Details from a few cases through fact-finding visits and...
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Review of Women's Studies / Review Issues
The Delhi gang rape of 2012 is a milestone in the way in which Indian media covers the crime of rape. This paper examines how the mainstream Hindi and English print and broadcast media has handled such coverage since then. It looks at how the...
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Review of Women's Studies / Review Issues
From faint beginnings in scattered solitary actions in the 1990s, the activities of men's rights activists have emerged in India as a well-organised social movement. They denounce feminists with a broad brush, portend the impending doom of...
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Review of Women's Studies / Review Issues
After a prolonged campaign for criminal and civil laws to curb domestic violence, the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 came into force. However, lasting solutions to the problem continue to be elusive, as the grim statistics...
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Review of Women's Studies / Review Issues
This paper explores the relationship between torture and sexual violence. As I understand it, sexual shaming, humiliation and hurt are inalienable aspects of torture inflicted on men, women and transpersons. In this sense, torture is nothing but...
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Special Articles
Investments through participatory notes in the Indian stock market have been a cause for concern for policymakers. It is argued that P-Notes did play a role in attracting foreign investments, when suitable instruments were unavailable in India....
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Special Articles
The common and strongly-held view in India is that balanced fertiliser use requires three major plant nutrients, namely, nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium, to be used in the ratio of 4:2:1, and any deviation in fertiliser use from this norm...
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Special Articles
Politics around food has been drawing scholarly attention, especially after state governments run by the political right-wing banned food items. This article draws upon local culinary practices in Bengal and its cultures of food. It shows how...
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Economic Notes
There is concern that corporations have borrowed too much, and that therefore bank balance sheets are strained as well. Contrary to this popular view, it is argued here that the company finance data of the corporate sector in general does not...
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Reports From the States / Web Exclusives
The mithun’s significance among the tribes of Arunachal Pradesh is widely known. In this article, the author explores the vicissitudes in the socio-economic importance of the mithun and why efforts should be made for their preservation....
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Web Exclusives
As Myanmar prepares for its third elections under its third constitution in 67 years, this article looks at the evolutions of its electoral practices and its constitutions. The complex rules ...
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