2013

• Towards Self-governance
  29 December 2013, by Uttam Sen
  Politics and administration in India have their singularities. If there was a time when people’s representatives took their feedback from their constituency to the party and the administration and worked accordingly, the practice has now become  (...)
• Ending Gender-based Violence: Need for a Civilisational Response
  29 December 2013
  WOMEN’S WORLD
  by Sagar Preet Hooda
  The murderous gangrape of a young girl in a moving bus in Delhi in December 2012 had deeply shaken the conscience of the nation. The surge of feelings of fear, anger, and frustration in society, though  (...)
• Semiotics of Pornographic Violence
  29 December 2013, by Kamalakanta Roul
  The serial child rape cases in Delhi as well as in other parts of India have raised a serious debate over the role of pornography in generating violence. The accused of Gandhi Nagar and Badarpur child rape cases disclosed that they had watched  (...)
• Kerala Model: Gone with the Wind?
  29 December 2013, by K Saradamoni
  Kerala, a tiny strip of land in the extreme south-west of the Indian subcontinent, became a state on October 1, 1956 following the dictates of the States Reorganisation Commission. This area, renowned for the spices grown there, especially  (...)
• Workers’ Consciousness Revisited
  29 December 2013
  COMMUNICATION
  A leading member and ideologue of the CPI, Anil Rajimwale (AR for short), has honoured us by his important critique (Mainstream, vol. LI, number 27, June 22) of our position on the question of workers’ (revolutionary)  (...)
• Who Gains when a Poor Kills another Poor?: Reminiscing the Past and Reflecting the Present
  29 December 2013
  by Sunil Ray
  ‘Bengali culture’ seems to have lost its resonance when I see a poor is killing another poor just because both of them belong to opposite political parties. Raping and killing of women across Bengal presents another antithesis of its  (...)
• Pension Reforms
  29 December 2013, by Bharat Dogra
  COMMUNICATION
  Pension reforms can benefit tens of millions of new beneficiaries, apart from pension coverage improving for existing beneficiaries. Most of these beneficiaries are elderly people, but some others will also benefit by broadening  (...)
• Reminiscent of an Era that went Wrong
  29 December 2013
  by Bishwajit Sen
  It is as if the British media has suddenly been hit by a thunderbolt. It is of course not the “spring thunder†of the Naxalbari type, which was distinctly heard in Peking (now Beijing) and faithfully reported by its radio. This is  (...)
• Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Food Security
  29 December 2013, by Bharat Dogra
  Recently there has been a lot of discussion on food security, but most of this discussion has taken place in the narrow context of making available cheaper foodgrains to a larger number of people. The kind of questions which dominated this  (...)
• The Meaning of Politics
  29 December 2013, by D.K. Giri
  Of different influences on our daily life, politics is predominant. Most often, it overrides other sectors of life—social, cultural, business, technology, agriculture. Bernard Crick, in his In Defence of Politics says: Politics affects everyday  (...)

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