Cover February 04, 2012	[EDITORIALS] Hope in Pakistan The current political crisis in Pakistan may be an indicator of larger social changes.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The ability of the political opposition (Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan) and the higher echelons of the state’s military, judicial and civil bureaucracies to act in concert is quite largely due to their shared regional and ethnic power bases  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

President Barack Obama’s new defence strategy for the United States involving cuts and drawdowns of its military requirements and presence the world over reflects the superpower’s current economic priorities  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The government’s recent actions in notifying the Intermediary Guidelines for the internet with minimal public debate have resulted in the creation of a legal system that raises as many problems as it solves  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The Indian rural economic structure is witnessing changes, largely due to economic policies and consequent adjustments in the decision-making process of individual economic agents  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Arun Ferreira’s illegal arrest and torture is a telling example of the unlawful conduct of the police. While he and a few thus jailed received media attention, there are many who are rotting in jails, accused of being Maoists and tortured  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Villages in the Jangalmahal region of West Bengal show a stark picture of extreme poverty and dispossession among the adivasis  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The current approaches to the Greek and eurozone crises that are being pushed by Germany, France and the European Union are failing because they suffer from a fatal misdiagnosis  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

India pilots a WHO resolution on mental healthcare, but when will it set its own house in order?  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Will the near-extinct Jarawa tribe survive the greed and insensitivity of the “mainstream”?  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Reforms to the public distribution system in Chhattisgarh that focused on extending coverage, improving delivery and increasing transparency have led to its remarkable revival  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

A tribute to Srilal Shukla (1925-2011), the writer in Hindi whose writings held up a mirror to all that is lovable and revolting, funny and alarming, feudal and democratic in India, particularly in the gigantic Hindi belt, that hotbed of political in  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

There are two ways in which we can contemplate the global/local dimension in relation to Indian commercial fiction in English: first, in terms of processes of publication and circulation (the means of production); and, second, in terms of the broad c  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Political Theory edited by Mangesh Kulkarni (New Delhi: Sage), 2011; pp 304, Rs 795.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Unruly Hills: Nature and Nation in India’s Northeast by Bengt G Karlsson (New Delhi: Social Science Press and Orient Blackswan), 2011; pp 336, Rs 695  [Abstract]  [Full Article]