IMPRESSIONS
Usually life gets simpler as nations progress. But not in India where a barrage of sudden changes, new rules and revised regulations are making life burdensome for ordinary people. First it was demonetisation. The dislocations that (...)
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Be it currency shift, Aadhaar, GST, there is a mad rush; People feel cornered, vexed. Why this mad rush?
29 July 2017, by T J S George -
EPW confronting Crisis of Identity
29 July 2017by Sankar Ray
The spectre of Sachin Chaudhuri, thefounder of Economic Weekly, which was rechristened as Economic and Political Weekly in the mid-1960s, haunts the corridors of EPW at Lower Parel in Mumbai today. The eerie situation appeared (...) -
EPW Editor’s Resignation and Role of Intellectuals
29 July 2017by Vivek Kumar Srivastava
One of the most reputed journals of contemporary India, Economic and Political Weekly’s editor Paranjoy Guha Thakurta has resigned due to conflict with the management on publishing an article on the Adani Group. The (...) -
Why is Western Liberalism Crumbling?
29 July 2017BOOK REVIEW
by Zaboor Ahmad
The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce; publication: Little Brown UK; 2017; pages: 234.
The debate whether the West is on retreat and the East on ascension goes on unabated. It is in this context that Edward (...) -
Terrorism, Qatar Siege and Global Strategic Undercurrents
29 July 2017by Rudra P. Pradhan and Jajati K. Pattnaik
Introduction
More than four weeks into the Qatar—GCC diplomatic crisis leading to a series of embargo on Qatar keeps the global anticipation high and speculation rising. Seven countries—Saudi Arabia, (...) -
India-China Face-off
22 July 2017POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
As we go to press, the result of the presidential contest has been announced. Ram Nath Kovind, the BJP candidate and NDA nominee, has predictably won with 65.65 per cent votes. He thus becomes the country’s second Dalit (...) -
Pilgrim’s Progress
22 July 2017, by Kuldip NayarWhen terrorists attack from the front, it means that they are not afraid of the conse-quences. The story of counterattack to kill seven pilgrims, returning from the Amarnath Yatra in Kashmir, is somewhat similar. The Lashkar-e-Toiba did not (...) -
Improving the Quality of Education Still not a Priority for UP Government
22 July 2017, by Sandeep PandeyIn UP the Chief Minister has launched a campaign to get children enrolled into schools and linked it to a tree plantation drive. He has also distributed dress, socks, shoes, school bags, free books to encourage children to go to school. Every (...) -
Protest against Mob Lynchings and the Role of Civil Society in Breaking the Silence
22 July 2017by Aurobindo Ghose
A fifteen-year old boy was lynched to death in a train by a mob, when he was returning home with his relatives, on the evening of Thursday, June 22, after doing his Eid shopping in Delhi. The mob threw his body at Asaoti (...) -
Did Ambedkar Appreciate Puri’s Jagannath?
22 July 2017, by A K BiswasThe Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi’s address to the countrymen styled as ‘Mann ki Baat’ broadcast at 11:28 IST by the All India Radio on June 25, 2017 noted that:
“Those who have studied Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar should have seen that Lord (...)
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