Cover June 20, 2009	[EDITORIALS] Ready to Give Up at the WTO? The new government is signalling that it is ready to agree to US demands at the Doha round.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The struggle within the power elite in Iran has spilled over into the streets and now threatens the theocracy.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The State zealously sheltered its petty minion, Manohar Kadam, the police officer who, out of casteist prejudice, ordered the totally unjustified firing that killed 10 persons in Ramabai Nagar in Mumbai in July 1997, ignoring the persistent demands o  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

When the state acts as a mechanism that abstracts documents from their points of origin and make them into the signifiers of an abstract entity called “history”, and the market performs this function of abstraction, we have the processes, respectivel  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The fiscal situation of the central government is worrisome. The problem is largely structural and not cyclical. Indeed, the slowdown of the economy has only partly contributed to the deterioration in 2008-09  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

A discussion of India’s polio eradication programme, what has worked, what has not and what now needs to be and can be done.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

On most foreign policy issues, the United Progressive Alliance government of 2004-09 stuck to the status quo ante  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Reflections on politics in Rampur in Uttar Pradesh, which, according to the national English media, witnessed a campaign of scandal and communal polarisation during the recent Lok Sabha elections.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The Shiv Sena’s poor performance in strongholds like Mumbai and Thane in the recent Lok Sabha elections forced it to accuse the breakaway Maharashtra Navnirman Sena of splitting the “Marathi” vote.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Land administration is not an easy task in India where different methods exist with a lack of effort at bringing commonality into the system of land records  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

There is an undoubted alliance of the Maoists, Trinamool Congress and the Indian National Congress in Lalgarh and elsewhere in West Bengal where the opponents of the CPI(M) are trying their best to capitalise on the latter’s electoral rout in the Lok  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

This article argues that even an allocation of 6% of the gross domestic product to the education budget would not be sufficient to fund universal school education until the very distant future if the government school system is used as the only instr  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Vestigial octroi posts can now be found in the country only in a few cities of Maharashtra  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The markets are quick to raise interest rates and curtail lending during the tightening phase of monetary policy, but their reactions are lukewarm in an easing phase  [Abstract]  [Full Article]