Cover January 28, 2012	[EDITORIALS] Big Business Weds Big Media The Reliance/Network18 deal should make us wake up to the impending threat to media plurality.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The decision to allow qualified foreign investors to invest in India’s equity markets is a source of concern both for the kind of funds that will be attracted and what this says about the government’s own state of mind  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Secularism is sometimes said to consist merely in a state’s neutrality and equidistance between different religions. Charles Taylor has influentially argued for such a position for some time  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Green revolution technologies and a vigorous smallholder sector have seen Asian agriculture make giant strides in the last five decades  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Punjab’s agricultural sector and allied activities are now in a crisis. This paper examines the role of policy and institutions in perpetuating or tackling it  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Khap panchayats have had a long innings in the Jat-dominated areas of north-western India and some of their decisions that go against individual rights have led to heated controversy  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

A significant focus of policy in recent years has been to devolve decision-making and management of water systems to the community level  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

One of the key tests to real empowerment of panchayats lies in the ability of local self-governing institutions to finance their own expenditures through internal generation of resources  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The regional pattern of temporary and seasonal labour migration in India assumes sharp focus when seen in the light of data from the 64th round of the National Sample Survey  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Tuberculosis or tb is a very serious problem in India and worldwide, and generally lacks attention in the public domain  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The “other side” of the dowry deaths story is not so familiar  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The recent tragedy in the super specialty hospital in Kolkata shows that West Bengal Clinical Establishment Act, 1950 was not being effectively enforced and monitored satisfactorily for ensuring the safety of patients  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

In the initial months of governance by the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, attempts appear to have been made to begin subverting the positive results of the land reform programme of the Left Front  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The increasingly complex and elusive media landscape has thrown fresh challenges to an unsettled ecosystem of media policy in India  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

This review analyses the trends in certain crucial parameters pertaining to the market borrowings of the centre and the states. It argues that the latter have made efforts to contain their borrowing  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

This article analyses the potential consequences of the application of nanotechnology in the Indian context and studies the institutional arrangements for “risk governance” of nanotechnology in other countries  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics edited by John Clifford Holt (Durham and London: Duke University Press), 2011; pp 772 + index, illustrations, $34.95.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]