The writer is a Copenhagen-based historian
March 05,2005 00:00:00 AM
According to the Economic Survey (’04-’05), there are 4 crore job-seekers and 70 per cent of them are educated. Many scholars have...
January 22,2005 00:00:00 AM
On a train journey from Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh to New Delhi, one encountered several forms of power, and its exercise. In one ca...
December 15,2004 00:00:00 AM
On a field trip to rural Haryana, what struck me was the dissonance between per capita incomes and living conditions, especially as they aff...
October 18,2004 00:00:00 AM
Two recent dramas highlight the increasing intervention of the public into the private domain. The first was the rewriting of Gudiya’s ...
October 09,2004 00:00:00 AM
Indian women today are facing increasing and diverse kinds of violence. Perhaps its severest form is the murder of the unborn girl child, ta...
June 11,2004 00:00:00 AM
The Common Minimum Programme has a seemingly laudable goal: to spend 6 per cent of GDP — up from the present 3 per cent — on expan...
August 25,2003 00:00:00 AM
Can two such negative social trends as dowry and the poor sex ratio ever yield anything positive? While the large print (national media) dwe...
May 22,2002 00:00:00 AM
The English press has done an exemplary job in exposing the role of the administration and the police in the events after the Godhra tragedy...
September 01,2000 00:00:00 AM
Issues of urban poverty, globalisation and the fate of various categories of Indians have recently engaged public attention. In his column...
