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Cleansing the Past, Creating the Future? Do (History) Books Matter?

Deletions in the NCERT introductory textbook for history indicate that the slightest allusion to respect for social and cultural differences as an ideal is considered irrelevant.
▶03-May-2023
Kumkum Roy

Making the Bihar Caste Census Better

Bihar's caste census can offer new insights into the endurance of caste's links with occupation and economic status. Conducted properly, it has the potential to empower residents and deepen…
▶25-Apr-2023
M.R. Sharan

The Reincarnation of Millets: From Derided to Divine

The millets revival in India caters to the biases of urban and well-off consumers. The promised benefits to marginalised communities have been unrealised.
▶24-Apr-2023
Sudha Nagavarapu
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Different Dimensions of a Nation

The idea of a nation state based on ethnicity could easily change into a predatory state that flourishes by calling for the extinction of the ‘other’. Such an exclusivist state could turn upon itself…
▶24-Apr-2023
Manjari Katju
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‘Basic Structure’: Defence against Parliamentary Hegemony

The 'basic structure' ensures that some constitutional features remain unamendable by Parliament, a defence against parliamentary hegemony and Constitution rewriting.
▶12-Apr-2023
Sriram Panchu, Aprameya Manthena, Vikas Muralidharan

Looking Back at G20 after 25 Years

The G20 has remained a handmaiden of the Group of Seven (G7). Hence, even at the G20 the concerns of developing countries have been secondary to the interests of the major economies. Will the Indian…
▶17-Apr-2023
Biswajit Dhar

Rajasthan’s Right to Health Law Advances Socialised Medicine

Rajasthan’s Right to Health Act shows transformative potential by guaranteeing access to health for all. Despite protests by some doctors, implementation of a rights-based framework would lead to…
▶10-Apr-2023
G. Ananthakrishnan
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Reconciling Economic Planning with Democracy

“How did India reconcile the tensions between economic planning and liberal democracy? And how did this attempt shape the Indian republic’s formative years?”
▶03-Apr-2023
Gaurav C. Garg

Jammu and Kashmir: From Political to Economic Dispossession

Economic dispossession has come on top of the political dispossession of the residents of Jammu and Kashmir. The Modi government has found many pretexts to put off elections to the assembly while its…
▶03-Apr-2023
Radha Kumar
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A Sensitive Portrayal of Kashmir after '5 August'

An intense narrative of recent transformations in Jammu and Kashmir’s socio-political and economic landscape keeps the focus on the region’s hapless people.
▶05-Apr-2023
Kapil Kak
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A Flawed Biography of Vivekananda

It is a poor account of Vivekananda's life that is written without studying the Bengali writings on him, that downplays the Ramakrishna-Narendranath relationship and that pays only little…
▶29-Mar-2023
Rudrangshu Mukherjee

India’s Geo-Economic Foreign Policy

Economic considerations are now driving India’s seemingly adroit steps in the foreign policy arena. Foreign policy has become a tool through which India is absorbing critical economic pressures, and…
▶20-Mar-2023
Karthik Nachiappan
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