Notwithstanding the Supreme Court of India’s judgment decriminalising the offence of adultery in the Indian Penal Code, 1860, the Parliamentary Standing Committee examining the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill, 2023 has demanded its reintroduction as a...
Dhruba Narayan Ghosh, a distinguished citizen of India, passed away on 7 November 2023, in Kolkata, at the age of 95. At the time of independence, in 1947, he was just about 19 years old. The next 75 years turned out to be a remarkable life in our...
Are women less risky in terms of loan repayment as compared with men? Using data on public sector Indian banks, we present evidence to this effect. The key insights emanating from the analysis are the following. First, non-performing loans arising...
Three years of the implementation of the National Education Policy 2020 have witnessed several regulations and guidelines by the University Grants Commission regarding changes in the curriculum. It is important to examine the implications of these...
Throwing light on the complex and technical negotiations, the key issues under discussion at COP27 that would shape the future international carbon-trading regime are analysed. By allowing for unrestrained confidentiality and doing little to resolve...
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The Prime Minister’s announcement to extend the supply of free foodgrains to around 80 crore people for another five years from January 2024 is a welcome step. It marks a major inflexion point in the drive towards food security, which...
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Atul Bhardwaj writes:
Xi Jinping, the President of China, embarked on his first visit to the United States (US) in six years with the primary goal not being the resolution of all the challenges in the US–China relationship. During a working lunch...
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Human Rights: Dealing with Torture
Over the years, however, it has become clear that care and rehabilitation of victims is too insufficient an intervention and if torture and the inflicting of violence on dissenters and on the powerless and the underprivileged...
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On account of the large volume of transactions on the Indian Railways which emanate from 7,000 stations and involve about 600 commodity groups, and to deal with a daily loading of 30,000 wagons, the Indian Railways had...
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The concept of “original sin” was introduced by Eichengreen and Hausmann (1999), defining it as “a situation in which the domestic currency cannot be used to borrow abroad or to borrow long term, even domestically.” Subsequently, Eichengreen et al (2003)...
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This intervention makes the case for legalising same-sex marriage in the country.
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This article delves into the posthumanisation of sports, as various notions of enhancements in...
While pharmaceutical and computer software industries have achieved considerable international acclaim, their growth performance so far has been primarily thought of as driven by labour arbitrage...
The trend of foreign direct investment inflow in India is examined, focusing on internal trade, state-by-state allocation, and country-by-country allocation. It evaluates the effectiveness of...
On one hand the BJP defines SC, BC castes as Hindus, and on the other hy banning beef denies them their age-old food habits. If beef is banned it will he the beginning of the end of the country's...
Poverty as a concept is closely related to inequality. Given the average income level, a higher level of inequality (reflected by the usual measures) will tend to be associated with a higher level of...
The assertion of autonomous dalit women's organisations in the 1990s threw up several crucial theoretical and political challenges, besides underlining the brahmanism of the feminist movement and the...
This paper examines the role of 'Hinduism' in the course of socio-historical development in the Indian subcontinent, how there has been a gradual process of construction of a 'Hindu', community and...
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Many tribal societies practise a system of comprehensive sex education in socially sanctioned settings.
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How do cultural festival spaces and the concept of community evolve in response to the commercialisation of their sporting event?
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The paper attempts to forecast the growth pattern of the COVID-19 spread in India and examines the impact of the lockdown on its spread and deaths. Comparing different models for short-term forecasts...
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These quotes are taken from the article “ Debating Metro Car Shed: Lessons for Aarey Movement ” by Sulakshana Mahajan The article argues that the Aarey metro car shed is an attempt to make the best...
The government’s narrative on vaccination should reflect sincerity, truth and transparency.
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The two recent major decisions of the Indian health authorities regarding Covid -19 vaccination are problematic.
