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Rescripting India’s Engagement with Afghanistan

Vol. 56, Issue No. 40, 02 Oct, 2021
Shweta Singh

The ways of rescripting India’s language of engagement with non-state armed groups like the Taliban are discussed. The engagement essentially does not accord moral legitimacy to acts of violence by the Taliban, but pushes for refashioning India’s image from being an “alien” other to a “differentiated” other.

 

Is AUKUS is driven by strategic concerns or entrenched interest of military industrial complex?

Vol. 56, Issue No. 40, 02 Oct, 2021
Atul Bhardwaj

AUKUS—the new trilateral security arrangement between the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom has increased the chances of a split in the transatlantic alliance by making a clear distinction between the roles of the maritime and continental spheres. The military pact has reduced the military role of Quad in the Indo–Pacific. A ruptured West and a weak Quad are likely to make China and Russia happy.

 

Judas and the Black Messiah

Vol. 56, Issue No. 39, 25 Sep, 2021
Goutham Raj Konda

Based on a Hollywood film about a member of the Black Panther Party, the author explores the history of deep-rooted racism in law enforcement and the structural and institutional continuities that persist.

Deconstructing India’s Negotiating Dexterity

Vol. 56, Issue No. 39, 25 Sep, 2021
Simi Mehta

Does India Negotiate? by Karthik Nachiappan, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp 238, `1,295 (hardcover).

 

Reliability of PLFS 2019–20 Data

Vol. 56, Issue No. 39, 25 Sep, 2021
Arup Mitra, Puneet Kumar Shrivastav

The April–June (2020) quarterly data for the urban sector showed a massive decline in the workforce participation rate and a huge increase in the unemployment rate. Still, the annual average work participation rate rose sharply in 2019–20 compared to the earlier two rounds of the Periodic Labour Force Survey estimates, and the average unemployment rate declined somewhat. Given these patterns, the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy data set, despite its own problems, seems to be casting a more realistic picture.

 

District-level Estimates of Unemployment Rates in Odisha

Vol. 56, Issue No. 38, 18 Sep, 2021
Khan M F, Hukum Chandra, B N Mohanty, Sridhar Sahoo

This article describes the possibilities of using an alternative method, such as small area estimation, for generating district-level unemployment estimates with higher precision. The SAE method is applied to generate the unemployment rate of different districts of Odisha combining the Periodic Labour Force Survey 2018–19 data of the National Sample Survey Office and the auxiliary variables from other secondary data sources.

 

Using Public Procurement Strategically

Vol. 56, Issue No. 38, 18 Sep, 2021
Yugank Goyal

The article examines policy decisions and practices in public procurement in India during the pandemic, and finds that bureaucracy could not use public procurement strategically and relied upon archaic and centralised management of procurement to (mis)handle the pandemic. The article also offers some lessons from China’s procurement designs and calls for a major reform in this sector in India.

 

A Feminist Interrogation of the POCSO Judgments and Criminal Law in India

Vol. 56, Issue No. 38, 18 Sep, 2021
Atreyee Sengupta

The recent Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act judgments of the Bombay High Court have led to a gamut of criticisms from lawyers and activists alike.

Reproduction of Informal Enterprises in India

Vol. 56, Issue No. 37, 11 Sep, 2021
Anamika Das, Deepak K Mishra

Informality and diversity of institutional forms have been marked as distinct features of India’s postcolonial capitalist development. The present paper considers the conditions of reproduction of informal enterprises, specifically focusing on the living and working conditions of artisan labour in the silk-weaving cluster of Sualkuchi in Assam. The study indicates that kinship, gender, and caste act as regulative forces, influencing the form and scale of production, ownership, contract, and exchange relations. The results point to the significance of non-capitalist institutional arrangement in the reproduction of the handloom sector under contemporary capitalism.

India’s Sugar Woes at the World Trade Organization

Vol. 56, Issue No. 37, 11 Sep, 2021
Sachin Kumar Sharma, Adeet Dobhal, Saiya Savooji

Policies related to India’s sugar sector are facing adjudication in a case brought to the World Trade Organization. It is alleged that India provides market price support on account of fair and remunerative price and other measures to the sugar sector in excess of maximum applicable permissible limit under the Agreement on Agriculture. Without these policies, the sugar sector, employing over 50 million farmers, would face a tremendous challenge. Irrespective of the legal outcome and given the minuscule policy space available under the amber box, this paper finds the provisions of the blue box feasible and worthwhile to explore for the distressed sugar sector. Further, it highlights the asymmetries and imbalances in the AoA that adversely impact the policy space of developing members, including India.

 

A Micro-ethnographic Study on Provision and Access of Public Goods in an Indian Village

Vol. 56, Issue No. 37, 11 Sep, 2021
Gopinath Annadurai

A micro-ethnographic study is done in a village using participatory research tools in order to highlight the patterns of public goods segregation and access. The factors influencing the social groups in their decision-making at the local level are also highlighted.

Underscoring the Perils of Majoritarianism

Vol. 56, Issue No. 37, 11 Sep, 2021
Prannv Dhawan

Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here by Aakar Patel, Westland Books, 2020; pp 368, ₹799.

 

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