I. Introduction
The Union Budget 2015-16 is in the same mould as the Budgets in the preceding years. The Finance Minister’s speech announces or mentions a whole host of schemes for different sections of the population. With a projected (...)
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Union Budget 2015-16: Continuity with the Past Framework
9 March 2015, by Arun Kumar -
Budget and Some Unanswered Questions
9 March 2015, by Bharat DograSome aspects of this year’s Union Budget made it different from Budgets of previous years. In previous years it has been customary to compare the new fiscal year’s allocations for various Ministries, sectors and programmes with the allocations (...) -
On Economic Survey: 2014-2015
9 March 2015, by Girish MishraProfessor Ha-Joon Chang teaches economics at the Cambridge University and has authored a number of books such as Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Studies in Historical Perspective, Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret (...) -
Unpopular Leadership-style Hurts Kerala’s CPI-M. Would BJP Benefit?
9 March 2015, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
Kerala could well become another Bengal for the Communist Party of India-Marxist. The party’s State Secretary, Pinarayi Vijayan, demitted office last week after a 17-year reign. The party lost ground during that period, though the (...) -
Shastri’s New Torments / Language: Pandora’s Box
9 March 2015, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
The following was the ‘New Delhi Skyline’ written by N.C. fifty years ago on March 2, 1965 and published in Mainstream (March 6, 1965). Even after fifty years the relevance of its contents remains undiminished.
Shastri’s New (...) -
Should PM Visit China?
9 March 2015, by Kuldip NayarFull marks to the arrogance of China! It summons the Indian envoy at Beijing and conveys its displeasure over the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Arunachal Pradesh. The territory is part of India and was never claimed by China till some (...) -
Massacres Recoiled in Assam: Adivasis this Time
9 March 2015by Nazimuddin Siddique
In a series of violence in Assam the latest deadly massacre came in the fateful evening of December 23, 2014 when Bodo militants unleashed their barbarism through the barrels of sophisticated AK series weapons upon the (...) -
Beti Bachao needs Radicalism rather than Rhetoric
9 March 2015WOMEN’S WORLD
by Neetu Choudhary
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign on ‘beti bachao, beti padhao’ is merely a top-up on numerous scattered schemes that already exist in the name of women’s welfare or development. Though the schemes in (...) -
Beti Bachao: Patients’ Envy Doctors’ Pride
9 March 2015by Harikrishnan B., Navneet Sharma and Pradeep Nair
The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has miles to go before he sleeps, especially when he is such a slow walker. As Chief Minister of Gujarat for more than a decade, he could not reach out to (...) -
Depoliticising People’s Protests
9 March 2015, by Suranjita RayThe idea and practice of democracy has always remained a subject of political negotiation, revision and reinvention. Its history is inseparable from the history of people’s assertions, protests, struggles, and increased consciousness of rights (...)
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