Editorials
Closing down the women's empowerment programme Mahila Samakhya will directly affect lakhs of women.
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Strategic Affairs
The recent episode of an oppressive smog that blanketed Southeast Asia highlights an entirely new kind of problem in contemporary international relations, namely, the complexity of transnational governance when traditional remedies--from bombs...
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Commentary
What lies behind the recent unrest in Punjab following an incident involving the desecration of a copy of the Guru Granth Sahib? This article situates the protests following the incident in their social, economic and political contexts and argues...
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Commentary
There is a New Education Policy which is now being formulated by the Government of India. A discussion of these efforts in the context of past efforts at policy formulation, the continuities and discontinuities over time and then a presentation...
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Commentary
The importance of hand-washing in personal and public hygiene has evolved over the centuries. While the market with its countless number of soaps and hand-wash products for personal hygiene with the accompanying advertising has created a false...
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Commentary
The transgender community in Tamil Nadu is gradually finding its feet socially and economically through self-help groups and microenterprises with the state government's help. It is also striking out independent of the lesbian, gay and...
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Commentary
The resounding rejection of the Conservative Party in Canada's federal elections last month was a vote against the extreme legislative measures that the 10 years of the Stephen Harper government had introduced in trying to refashion the...
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Appointments Of Judges
This article is a legal analysis of the Supreme Court judgment in the appointment of judges case. It argues that a majority of the judges did not hold judicial primacy to be part of the basic structure, as has been commonly misunderstood. Further...
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Appointments Of Judges
What steps will the judiciary take with a view to reforming the existing collegium system? What will the Supreme Court of India do to ensure that the collegium system is significantly transformed with a view to infusing transparency and...
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Book Reviews
Democratic Governance and Politics of the Left in South Asia edited by Subhoranjan Dasgupta; Delhi: Aakar Books, 2015; pp v + 266, Rs 695.
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Book Reviews
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua Greene; New York: Penguin, 2013; pp 432, $29.95
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Book Reviews
Urban Development in Howrah: Socio-Economic Perspectives edited by Mahalaya Chatterjee and Anis Mukhopadhyay; New Delhi: Primus Books, 2015; pp xii + 413, Rs 1,595.
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Perspectives
In recent years, state after state, under the rule of parties with diverse ideologies, has enacted legislation banning cow slaughter without serious consideration of the rationale and content of the laws or the practical problems of implementing...
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Special Articles
The debate on the Uniform Civil Code in India has passed through three phases which have been grounded in different normative concerns, that is, national consolidation, equality of laws, and now gender justice. Since the normative goals of a...
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Special Articles
This paper suggests that post-disaster assistance in the Global South is a version of "slum development" on a compressed scale in terms of time and an expanded one in terms of resources. The index of this is the slogan "build back better." It...
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Special Articles
One of the striking features of the Indian economy in recent years has been a sharp rise in the share of the trade deficit in the gross domestic product. While the period of high GDP growth was characterised by an even faster widening of the...
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Special Articles
The place of the economist John Nash in the pantheon of "greats" in game theory, and economics in general, is not based on the development of powerful new mathematical methods but rather on some fundamental insights. These insights have been...
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Notes
The health effects of cooking with biomass and coal are now well-recognised. Although more people use LPG, the number of those using biomass and coal has remained static for nearly 30 years. While LPG subsidies have played an important role in...
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Discussion
A response to V Kalyan Shankar and Rohini Sahni ("What Does an MA Know? Postgraduate Learning Deficits and the Diploma Disease in Social Sciences", EPW, 1 August 2015) argues that the main problem with higher education is not the poor...
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