The Maharashtra Govt’s SLP against the Bombay High Court’s lifting of the ban on the book Shivaji, written by James Laine came up for hearing before Justices Arijit Pasayat and Mukundakam Sharma on July 15. …
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The Efficacy of Windfall Profits Tax
The recent spike in oil prices has rekindled the debate on the need to impose a windfall profits tax on private oil companies. The matter has even acquired political overtones in the US presidential elections, …
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A new blog, Scholars without borders has been online for quite some time, and doing great service to those academically inclined. Those who have not heard it earlier, may visit it now.
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DIVIDED WE STAND: INDIA IN A TIME OF COALITIONS by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta & Shankar Raghuraman, Sage, 2007. As the UPA Government at the Centre struggles to survive in power, with the vote of confidence …
Continue readingSupreme Court’s Terminal List of cases 2008-09
As the Supreme Court is all set to take up the regular cases from July 15, the list of Specially Directed and Adjourned Matters for the period from July 2008 onwards (the terminal list)has been …
Continue readingResearching contemporary history
In a persuasive article in EPW (the access to this link may be denied to non-subscribers later), Ramachandra Guha identifies the obstacles to the writing of contemporary history, and outlines how they might be overcome. …
Continue readingPolicies and Politics of Social Justice
I am posting here the gist of 28th JP Memorial Lecture delivered on 23 March 2008 at Gandhi Peace Foundation, Delhi, by Professor Yogendra Yadav of CSDS. I read the text of this lecture in …
Continue readingQuota for the poor
In today’s Hindu, Tarunabh and I have underlined the three major infirmities in the Rajasthan Government’s compromise with the Gujjars who ended their agitation recently. The larger question, which needs to be examined, and which …
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BJP IN POWER
HINDU NATIONALISM AND GOVERNANCE Edited by John McGuire& Ian Copland,OUP, 2007, Rs.695, pp.476. This book is a significant contribution to the study of BJP in power. With the BJP making a determined effort to return …
Continue readingGuest Post: A Critique of Kerala’s IP Policy
Frustrated with the Central Government’s lack of action in bringing about a nationwide “traditional knowledge” policy, the State Government of Kerala decided to take matters into its own hands. It recently unveiled a controversial “intellectual …
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