Comment
India's meddling has not helped the Madhesi cause, only stoked Nepali chauvinism.
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H T Parekh Finance Column
International capital flows come in only two modes: feast or famine. The policy response to both situations has been primarily via exchange and capital controls--both have their consequences. Macro-prudential tools may represent a more flexible,...
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Margin Speak
By returning their awards writers and artists have taken an important step to fight growing fascism in the country. The present regime does not know how to respond to it but beyond a point it is futile to try and shame the shameless.
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Commentary
Using studies by influential think tanks in the US, commentators in India have sought to argue that India will face adverse consequences by staying out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the mega trade agreement concluded recently. While these...
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Commentary
There are a large number of inadequacies in the prevailing India-Nepal transit treaty. Issues with regard to documentation requirements, trans-shipment procedures, sensitive items, arbitrary bank guarantees, and poor infrastructure have resulted...
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Commentary
The platform known as the JAM Trinity (an acronym for Jan Dhan Yojana, Aadhaar and mobile numbers) may enable a shift from the current Public Distribution System, based on price subsidies, to the direct transfer of benefits. However, it is...
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Commentary
As Myanmar prepares for its third elections under its third constitution in 67 years, this article looks at the evolution of its electoral practices and its constitutions. The complex rules and seat allocation in parliament make it very difficult...
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Commentary
India has a rapidly expanding healthcare industry with private hospitals proliferating in every big city. The health industry is expected to reach nearly $200 billion by 2020. This article talks about the author's experience of working within...
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Book Reviews
Pathways to Industrialization in the Twentyfirst Century: New Challenges and Emerging Paradigms edited by Adam Szirmai, Wim Naudé and Ludovico Alcorta, UNU-WIDER Studies in Development Economics, Oxford: Oxford University Press,...
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Book Reviews
The Hollow Colossus by Charles Andrews, Oakland: Needle Press, 2015; pp 210, Rs 742.
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Insight
This article is a (less than comprehensive) critique of the World Bank's latest estimates of global poverty and projections thereof. It argues that the Bank's approach to poverty measurement is conceptually flawed, and that the results,...
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Special Articles
In the new National Accounts Statistics, the absolute size of the gross domestic product for 2011-12 is smaller by 2.3% compared to the old series; but the private corporate sector's size is larger by 43%; and, its GDP share higher by 11...
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Special Articles
This study, using health, empowerment and labour market metrics, reviews gender inequality and gender-based crimes in India at the subnational level. The findings show that gender-based crime rates have grown while general crime rates have...
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Special Articles
Despite favourable policy measures, growth of financial institutions and public interventions in the marketing of agricultural produce, the structure of Punjab's agricultural economy makes farmers dependent on commission agents. These agents trap...
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Discussion
The history of caste is not the history of saints and sinners. Rather, it is the history of particular social relations--of production and property--and the specific historical context that gave rise to caste and the caste system and reproduced...
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Postscript
The recent tendency of writers and artists returning awards in protest against ideological attacks on thinkers and scholars derives from the tradition of symbolic dissent.
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Postscript
The attempt to ban the entry of women into the famous Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is an irrationality shaped by regressive minds—and an insult to a liberating religious tradition.
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Postscript
(Also for P Murugan)
You see, some people are afraid
of light
(...
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Postscript
The Conjurer’s Revenge Redux
(Following Stephen Leacock, Professor of Political Economy, late of McGill University, Canada)
Note: This is Toothcomber’s valedictory piece: with this, the column winds up.
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