Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Cover September 11, 2010 [COMMENTARY] What Are Kashmir’s Stone Pelters Saying to Us? Sanjay Kak Kashmir’s sang-bazan – stone-pelters – have captured the popular imagination, but the uprising has yet to be accorded the same political pedigree as the I

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Cover September 11, 2010	[COMMENTARY] What Are Kashmir's Stone Pelters Saying to Us? Sanjay Kak Kashmir's sang-bazan – stone-pelters – have captured the popular imagination, but the uprising has yet to be accorded the same political pedigree as the Intifada [Abstract] [Full Article]

The Plane Truth

Debi Goenka , Gautam S Patel

The shift of focus from a shared vision of a planned metropolitan region to development for financial profit underlies the City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra's insistence on the controversial Panvel site for the proposed Navi [Abstract] [Full Article]

[EDITORIALS]

Scuttle and Run

The US military formally leaves Iraq, leaving it in economic, social and political ruins. [Abstract] [Full Article]

Will Truth Prevail?

In its current form, the whistle-blowers' bill will simply not do. [Abstract] [Full Article]

[H T PAREKH FINANCE COLUMN]

Manipulating Basel III

C P Chandrasekhar

The global banking lobby has managed to block structural reform aimed at averting another financial crisis as in 2008. It first stalled radical reform measures to restrict the activities of banks and break down institutions that were too big to fail [Abstract] [Full Article]

[SPECIAL ARTICLES]

Income Inequality in India: Pre- and Post-Reform Periods

Sandip Sarkar , Balwant Singh Mehta

India witnessed a widening of income inequality during the phase of acceleration in economic growth in the post-reform period (1993-94 to 2004-05) [Abstract] [Full Article]

[COMMENTARY]

The Burqa Ban

Ananya Jahanara Kabir

A Muslim woman living in Europe talks of her experiences with markers of Islam and her reasons for affiliating herself with Muslimness alongside equally powerful reasons for distancing herself from its overt expressions in the public sphere. [Abstract] [Full Article]

Caste Census and Constitutional Justice

Upendra Baxi

Counting castes among the population is a more complex and contradictory affair than thus far imagined by its proponents and opponents [Abstract] [Full Article]

[SPECIAL ARTICLES]

Accessing Institutional Finance: A Demand Side Story for Rural India

Rajalaxmi Kamath , Arnab Mukherji , Maria Sandstrom

Under the Reserve Bank of India's "financial inclusion" campaign, the provision of institutional finance has been progressing at differential rates across the country [Abstract] [Full Article]

Employee-Buy-Out and Participatory Management: The Case of Kanan Devan Hills Plantations Company

Deepika M G

The paper discusses about the employee-buy-out business model adopted by the Tatas on their exit from the plantation business in their southern plantations operations in Munnar in Idukki district of Kerala [Abstract] [Full Article]

[BOOK REVIEWS]

Predatory Capitalism

Romar Correa

Animal Spirits by George A Akerlof and Robert J Shiller (Princeton: Princeton University Press), 2010; [Abstract] [Full Article]

Democratising Economics

Rohan DSouza

Essays in the Reconstruction of Political Economy by Amit Bhaduri (New Delhi: Aakar), 2010;

The Face You Were Afraid to See: Essays on the Indian Economy by Amit Bhaduri, Penguin Books India, 2009; [Abstract] [Full Article]

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