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February 06, 2010

[EDITORIALS]

Degrees of Disparity

The division that has emerged in the structure of higher education services bodes ill for India’s youth.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


Choice of Instruments

The Reserve Bank of India’s decision to hike the cash reserve ratio was, at this juncture, the right one.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[COMMENTARY]

Sri Lanka After the Presidential Election

 Jayadeva Uyangoda

The January presidential election campaign as well as the post-election developments in Sri Lanka indicate quite clearly that the dominant political class of the country is deeply and antagonistically divided  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[PERSPECTIVES]

Saving Agricultural Labour from Agriculture: SEZs and Politics of Silence in Tamil Nadu

 M Vijayabaskar

The differential responses to the implementation of special economic zones across states offer an opening to understand how policy implementation gets shaped by the regional political economy  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[SPECIAL ARTICLES]

Trade Unions and Business Firms: Unorganised Manufacturing in West Bengal

 Deepita Chakravarty

Earlier studies held the militant trade unionism of the 1970s and the early 1980s responsible for the increasing importance of unorganised manufacturing activities in West Bengal  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[COMMENTARY]

A Structure for Environment Governance: A Perspective

 Sharachchandra Lele , Navroz K Dubash , Shantanu Dixit

A report on a round table held in November 2009 on the proposed National Environmental Protection Agency.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[OF LIFE LETTERS AND POLITICS]

Awards for the Asking?

 GPD

While Indian elites hanker after recognition from the American dominated world, we have debased our own awards. They are now often given for services rendered to the powers that be. What does this hankering tell us about ourselves?  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[COMMENTARY]

The Missing Mission in Health

 Rajib Dasgupta , Ramila Bisht

The National Urban Health Mission was supposed to address the unmet health needs of urban Indians. Yet, it has failed to commence work even 18 months after the announcement of its formation  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


The Private and the Public in School Education

 Venu Narayan

The poor quality of the state-run school education system has led to demands that the State should withdraw from schooling, and that the government should only fund private initiatives or let the private sector take over schooling with public-private  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[DISCUSSION]

A Critical Look at Some Propositions on Consumption and Poverty

 Utsa Patnaik

A comment to the analysis and discussion in Angus Deaton and Jean Dreze, “Food and Nutrition in India: Facts and Interpretations” (EPW, 14 February 2009).  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[BOOK REVIEWS]

Remembering Is Togetherness

 Rudolf C Heredia

Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India’s Present, Narratives from Orissa by Angana Chatterji  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


Saga of Irom Sharmila

 Pradip Phanjoubam

Burning Bright: Irom Sharmila and the Struggle for Peace in Manipur by Deepti Priya Mehrotra  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


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