Cover May 10, 2008	[EDITORIAL] Widening Debate on the Naxalite MovementWho MovementWho will heed a government committee that has discarded the “security-centric” view of Naxalism?  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The major steel towns built in the wake of the Second Five-Year Plan were to be “temples” to India’s industrial future and secular “modernity”; but soon they were desecrated by ethnic and communal violence  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

It is 10 years since India and Pakistan went openly nuclear. The dangers of a nuclear south Asia are becoming more and more apparent, yet the governments of the two countries continue to build their arsenals  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Baburam Bhattarai is senior standing committee member of the politburo of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). In the April 2008 constituent assembly election, he was elected from the Gorkha constituency-2 by an overwhelming margin  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

This paper first reviews the overall macroeconomic performance in India since independence, and then assesses the likely prospects for growth in the medium term  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

This article estimates the fiscal space available with the state governments, in case they implement the Sixth Central Pay Commission recommendations  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

India’s Africa policy should be moored in values that address the tremendous socio-economic challenges in the continent and not in a crass geopolitical/material game for control of resources.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Why and for what are the Tibetans – the people who have silently coexisted on our soil for over half a century and with whom we otherwise profess to have close cultural ties – struggling? Indians have by and large remained unaffected by their agonise  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

A code of conduct issued by the government of Maharashtra for the teachers in secondary, senior secondary schools and junior colleges is another example of the mindless distrust of people that currently dominates in the state  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Affirmative action is an absolute necessity at this juncture in the history of Nepal. The question is how to create a system that best serves the long-term interests of the country’s marginalised communities, as well as the nation state as a whole  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Textures of the Sikh Past: New Historical Perspectives edited by Tony Ballantyne; Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2007;  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

International Competitiveness and Knowledge- based Industries in India (2007) edited by Nagesh Kumar and K J Joseph;  [Abstract]  [Full Article]