by Atanu Sengupta and Sanjoy De
Introduction
The conferment of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer is an accolade to the randomised control trial (RCT)1 method used by these economists to (...)
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Nobel for ‘Poor Economics’: Some Questions
4 November 2019 -
The Poverty Challenge
4 November 2019by Suranjita Ray
It is pertinent to acknowledge that poverty is one of the biggest hindrances to human development and a challenge to the policy- makers. Since any universal or objective interpretation of poverty undermines its essential (...) -
Elections Free and Fair
4 November 2019, by Badri RainaNow that all party leaders are
Safely locked up,
We will yet show the carping world
How to hold free and fair elections.
Note that the electors are tucked away
Too in hotels where no one may
Approach them for anti-people
Discussions.
We will (...) -
Left Politics in Post-2019 India: Task of Creating a New United Front
4 November 2019by Pratip Chattopadhyay
Introduction
The verdict of the 17th Lok Sabha elections in 2019 came as a political shock for the Left political parties as in a 545-seat-based Lok Sabha, the Left parties have secured only five seats and that too only (...) -
Unmaking of Constitutional Rights in Kashmir
4 November 2019, by Arup Kumar Sen -
No Compromise with Hindu Majoritarianism
20 October 2019, by SCEDITORIAL
Is it the final nail in the coffin of secular India? In the campaign for the State Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana (which are to take place on October 21) PM Narendra Modi has vigorously advocated that Veer Savarkar (...) -
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat identifies India as a Hindu Rashtra
20 October 2019by Arun Srivastava
Now it is no more a hidden secret. So far they have been evading a direct confession. But on October 2, the birthday of Gandhi, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat publically confessed that India is a Hindu Rashtra, that it is a fact of (...) -
Malegaon (September 29, 2008) attack: Now the Hindu Rashtra in the Making
20 October 2019by Mustafa Khan
It is time to own our own terror rather than hide it from the world. That is more important as we in India quote “truth lives”. We boast about bidding farewell to open defecating after five years of effort. The day after the (...) -
How the US Economy is thriving in a war-war Situation in the World
20 October 2019by Monaem Sarker
This summer’s fears about escalating trade tensions and war, slowing global growth and an inverted yield curve in the United States have been let up somewhat as the year has progressed. The economic mood swings have become (...) -
National Security Paradigm: Social Media Ban in Jammu & Kashmir
20 October 2019by Nishtha Chadha
Abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A has led to the emergence of new fault-lines in Jammu and Kashmir. The August 5, 2019 decision of the incumbent BJP Government at the Centre has set the new normal in the politics of J&K in (...)
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