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Silent Revolution In Bihar And Women’s Empowerment
10 March 2013, by Satish KumarOf late 580 well-trained women are ready to move into the most difficult terrain of Bihar, the mostly Naxal-infested Rohatas district and its surrounding areas. These brave women were trained as the first female battalion of the military police (...) -
Social Justice for Inclusion
10 March 2013, by Arvind KumarBOOK REVIEW
Non-discrimination and Equality in India: Contesting Boundaries of Social Justice by Vidhu Verma; New York: Routledge; 2012; xv+pp.269; £ 85.00 $36, hdbk; ISBN: 978-0-415-67775-2
The book under review is an unprecedented work on the (...) -
Why Do We Need Parliament?
10 March 2013by M. MANISHA
The recent debates surrounding parlia-mentary inefficacy raise several important, but unanswered, questions: why don’t MPs participate in parliamentary proceedings on a regular basis? Why do they actively obstruct parliamentary (...) -
Japan Under Abe: New Challenges
10 March 2013, by Rajaram PandaIntroduction
Japan went to the polls on December 16, 2012 to elect members to the Lower House of the Diet, the more powerful of the two legislative bodies, and elected Abe Shinzo of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) with a two-thirds majority, (...) -
Behind the CPI-M’s Victory in Tripura
10 March 2013by SHOUVIK CHANDA
The CPI-M has returned to power in Tripura with a decisive victory. However, certain facts need to be brought into focus.
On February 12 at a press conference in Agartala, the CPI-M’s Tripura State Committee Secretary Bijon (...) -
‘Balancing Act’ at the Cost of Aam Aadmi?
6 March 2013, by SCPredictably Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s Union Budget 2013-14 has evoked mixed reactions.
However, if one takes a close look at what the Finance Minister has done, it becomes clear even to the lay observer as to who he has tried to placate. (...) -
Union Budget 2013-14: Caught between Various Contradictions
6 March 2013, by Arun KumarThe Union Budget is the largest single economic event of the year for the nation. It sets the direction for the economy for the coming year. Hence it is keenly watched by the public. The Union Budget for 2013-14 projects an expenditure of 14.6 (...) -
Economic Survey 2012-13
6 March 2013, by Girish MishraEvery year the Economic Survey of the current year is released just before the Union Budget for the coming year is presented to Parliament in order to make people aware of its background, problems and difficulties, and appreciate the efforts of (...) -
NAPM and People’s Budget Initiative’s Stand on Union Budget
6 March 2013DOCUMENT
Need for a Progressive Fiscal Policy in India: Need to increase Tax-GDP Ratio
Stop favouring the Corporates at the cost of the Toiling Masses
Decentralisation and Self-Reliance through Resource Allocation
Unorganised Workers: (...) -
Tributes to Lotika Sarkar by Amita Dhanda and V.R. Krishna Iyer
6 March 2013Professor Lotika Sarkar, 91, a widely-known pioneer in the fields of law, women’s studies and human rights, passed away in New Delhi on February 23, 2013. She taught criminal law and conflict of laws at the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi and was an active member of the Indian Law Institute. She was a member of the Government of India‘s Committee on the Status of Women in India and had been a founding member of several institutions—the Indian Association for Women Studies and the Centre for Women‘s Development Studies. Her husband, veteran journalist Chanchal Sarkar, predeceased her more than seven years ago. While remembering her we are publishing a tribute by one of her distinguished students, who is now herself a Professor of Law, and a message we received from Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, the retired Supreme Court judge, mourning her demise.
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