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  Review: State Absence as Presence: Service Delivery in Postcolonial Nigeria | Ruth Carlitz

  10 February 2023

  Reviewed by Ruth Carlitz (University of Amsterdam)
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  Every Household Its Own Government: Improvised Infrastructure, Entrepreneurial Citizens, and the State in Nigeria by Daniel Jordan Smith
  Princeton: Princeton University Press
  2022. 232 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-0-691-22991-1 (paper), ISBN 978-0-691-22989-8
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  The Nigerian expression Daniel Jordan Smith employs as the main title of his insightful 2022 book, Every Household Its Own Government: Improvised Infrastructure, (…)

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  Caricature Tribute to Vani Jairam | Jayaraj Vellur

  10 February 2023, by Jayaraj Vellur

  [Vani Jairam the leading playback singer in South Indian cinema passed away in Chennai on Feb 4, 2023]

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  Film Still from Aparajito directed by Satyajit Ray (1956)

  10 February 2023
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  Video: Bjorn Borg vs John McEnroe | The 1980 tie-break at Wimbledon

  10 February 2023

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  Bjorn Borg vs John McEnroe | The 1980 tie-break in full by Wimbledon https://youtu.be/UnwYdF8a5ws

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  Music: Burt Bacharach - Trains and Boats And Planes (1965)

  10 February 2023

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  Burt Bacharach - Trains And Boats And Planes by Liam Thomas https://youtu.be/3e5xB2laA68

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Feb 4, 2023

  4 February 2023

  * Union Budget 2023-24 Fails to Live up to Expectations of People | Bharat Dogra
  * Remembering VKRV Rao | KN Ninan
  * In Defence of Student Politics | Soumodip Sinha
  * On Happiness | Kobad Ghandy
  * Lessons unlearned from India’s online schooling emergency | Dipanjan Chakraborty

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 4, 2023

  4 February 2023

  Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Feb 4, 2023
  The National Budget 2023-24 presented in Parliament this week had major cuts in key areas of social spending —employment, nutrition, health, education, and economic commitments towards the peasantry— triggering sharp disapproval from the social democratic opposition, the left, and from social movement groups. The process got overshadowed by news of a market meltdown of the share values of one of India’s biggest business conglomerates. In five (…)

• Union Budget 2023-24 Fails to Live up to Expectations of People | Bharat Dogra

  4 February 2023, by Bharat Dogra

  The union budget for the year has been presented at a time of growing concerns that expectations regarding an inclusive recovery from the COVID and lockdown related economic crisis have not been realized for millions of poor households, while inequalities have been increasing sharply. There were therefore strong reasons for using this budget as an instrument for providing immediate relief to the bottom half of the population(which now has access to only 3 to 6% of the total wealth, according (…)

• The Union Budget 2023-2024 : Reading the fine print | P. S. Jayaramu

  4 February 2023

  by P. S. Jayaramu
  February 2, 2023
  Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman presented her fifth budget in succession, her last budget before the Modi Government goes to polls in early 2024. Going by the priority and higher allocations made to the Prime Minister’s programmes, one gets the impression that it is more of a Prime minister’s budget, probably fine-tuned by the PMO, if not totally drafted by it ! The finance minister made repeated references during the course of her speech to the (…)

• Challenges and Policy Options for Budget 2023-24 | Atul Sarma & Shyam Sunder

  4 February 2023, by Atul Sarma

  by Atul Sarma & Shyam Sunder *
  Budget 2023-24 is expected to be prepared under the shadow of multiple challenges such as slowing global growth, elevated core inflation even with tamed energy and food prices, and looming recession in Europe and other advanced countries. At another level, this being the last full budget before the general election in 2024 has its own challenges to make it as voter friendly as possible.
  The performance of the Indian economy in the immediate past would (…)