Editorials
The response of the Railways to passenger deaths is another committee.
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Margin Speak
At the 10th ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to be held at Nairobi, Kenya, from 15–18 December, the discourse on higher education being public/merit/private good and the covert/overt preparation of the government...
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Commentary
An independent consultant in an interim report has upheld the contention of the public sector Oil and Natural Gas Corporation that gas from one of its undersea wells in the Krishna-Godavari basin was consciously and systematically pilfered by a...
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Commentary
The data from the Rapid Survey on Children conducted in 2013-14, released after an inexplicable delay and still in a summary fashion, show some but patchy progress between 2005-06 and 2013-14 in maternal and child health indicators. A preliminary...
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Commentary
The recent floods in Chennai are a fallout of real estate riding roughshod over the city's waterbodies. Facilitated by an administration that tweaked and modified building rules and urban plans, the real estate boom has consumed the city'...
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Commentary
There are no public procurement programmes for cancer on the lines of those that exist for AIDS or tuberculosis. It is worth considering whether it is feasible to institute a drug procurement programme based on international/national competitive...
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Commentary
Critical discourse in India has largely been shaped by the social sciences. This article suggests thatthe exploratory sensibility of the arts and the humanities has a specific and productivecontribution to make in the present context in which...
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Commentary
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Paris, a popular left wing argument highlighted the culpability of imperialism in fuelling this violence. This form of anti-imperialism ends up denying historical agency to Muslims, and people in the...
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Book Reviews
Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era edited byGiacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria and Giorgos Kallis, New York and London: Routledge, 2015; pp xxii+220, Rs 2,600.
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Book Reviews
Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire by Seema Alavi, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 2015; pp xiii +490, Rs 1,495.
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Insight
India and Pakistan are parties to the Geneva Conventions which are the keystones of International Humanitarian Law. However, notwithstanding the IHL, whenever both belligerents engage in ceasefire violations, indiscriminate firing and shelling...
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Special Articles
Economic and social inequality is a major problem, implicated in poverty, ill health and exploitation. Inequality has increased in many countries since the 1980s and it is also widely seen as unfair, yet action against it has been sporadic and...
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Special Articles
Planning for India's energy future requires addressing multiple and simultaneous economic, social and environmental challenges. While there has been conceptual progress towards harnessing their synergies, there are limited methodologies available...
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Special Articles
This paper aims to interpret construction of the self and struggles of nationhood of some Muslim women in Kashmir's resistance movement against Indian control , focusing on the phase of the armed struggle in the 1980s. It argues that they have...
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Notes
The One Belt One Road initiative is the centrepiece of China's foreign policy and domestic economic strategy. It aims to rejuvenate ancient trade routes--Silk Routes--which will open up markets within and beyond the region. India has so far been...
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Discussion
The Nicobarese are not against "outsiders" and have a long tradition of embracing different cultures. They respect religious heterogeneity and even though the Hindu population in Kamorta and Katchal is small, there are numerous Hindu...
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Postscript
Amidst growing Islamophobia in Europe, the only hope is in educating your own and “the other,” in discovering the rich past of coexistence, in dialogue, and exploring common identities.
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Postscript
The absence of affordable, high-quality books and magazines on science, especially in regional languages, could imperil the existence of a democratic, rational society.
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Postscript
The Kamakhya temple in Guwahati in Assam is awash in legends and myths that revolve around the metaphorical power or “shakti” within women.
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Postscript
Two recent stage productions breathe life into the fiery times and passions of two outstanding, trenchantly independent women, Akhtari Begum and Amrita Pritam.
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Web Exclusives
A lot of hand-wringing and promises aside, COP21 is turning out to be another climate conference where the developed countries refuse to commit to norms set by previous summits. While India has maintained a principled and independent stance at...
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