Professor Puran Chand Joshi, the renowned economist and social scientist, passed away on 2 March 2014 after a prolonged illness. He will always be remembered for his contributions as a teacher and researcher to holistic development and agrarian studies. He…
There was something unreal about Nirmal Kumar Chandra, the renowned economist, who passed away on 19 March 2014. Totally free of any malice, totally devoid of any pettiness and totally free of any desire to get into the limelight, indeed…
Perry Anderson, The Indian Ideology, Three Essays Collective, Gurgaon, 2012, 191 pages, Rs 350 Charu Gupta, Gendering Colonial India: Reforms, Print, Caste and Communalism, Orient BlackSwan, New Delhi, 2012, viii+394 pages, Rs 845.
Braja Mohan Sharma was a leading member of the legal profession in Guwahati and a major Left thinker and activist, whose untimely death robbed the progressive movement in Assam of a precious asset. An annual lecture has been instituted in…
As I was walking down from the dais after delivering this lecture, a gentleman from the audience stepped up to me with the question: The title of your lecture is a query. Please tell me what your answer is. Is…
The inter-war Great Depression, one of the most interesting periods in the history of modern capitalism, saw an effective transfer of global power from Britain to the USA. Apart from plunging the capitalist world into a deflationary spiral of falling…
This paper analyses the role of print media in responding to specific struggles and debates related to the livelihood of people in the state of Kerala in India between 1923 and 1965. It employs an analysis of newspaper reports in…
Tribals, who are a continuously neglected lot, are the Forest Dependent People (FDP) in India. Their deprived condition was recognised by the framers of Indian Constitution; hence they were identified for special= protection by notification as ‘Scheduled Tribes’ through the…
Nitya Ramakrishnan, In Custody: Law, Impunity and Prisoner abuse in South asia, Delhi, jointly published by SAGE Publications India and South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), 2013, 452 pages, Rs 995. Bhairabi Prasad Sahu, The Changing Gaze: Regions and the…