Saturday, March 1, 2014

The puzzle of Argentina's decline

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A post on FT.com blogs "beyondbrics" wonders , "What happenned to Argentina?", which is based on this NBER paper. It n...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

The Maruti Suzuki workers dispute

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On 27 June, 2013, the International Commission for Labor Rights (ICLR) released the report entitled, “Merchants of Menace: Repressing worke...
Saturday, June 22, 2013

Pakistan's elections

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EPW has a good article on the Pakistani election, subtitled: "More rejection, less election". It details the various ills that...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

Civil Liberties groups' statements on Afzal Guru's hanging

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Here is a list of statements by various civil liberties groups.

Abandoning the Right to Food

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EPW has a important article by (co-authored by Harsh Mander, a member of the National Advisory Council) on the "Abandoning the Right...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Press Freedom in India - a caveat

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A few days ago, I posted the press freedom in India rankings by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). A caveat follows. Of course the whole r...
Friday, February 1, 2013

State entry into media?

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The TRAI has introduced recommendations against the entry of state and central government entering the broadcast sector. According to th...
Thursday, January 31, 2013

Press freedom in India

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Reporters without borders (RSF) has put out a list of countries ranked by press freedoms: India is ranked 131 (down from last year), betwe...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

Income inequality

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Below is the chart of Gini coefficient of income inequality of various countries (higher is more unequal). Note the position of South Afric...
Saturday, January 26, 2013

US subversion in Central and South America

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You might have heard of the term " Satellite State ", that is states under the de-facto control of a neighbouring powerful state...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Putting growth in its place

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A somewhat old but still massively relevant article by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen in Outlook on India's socio-economic performance sin...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Villagers in Jharkhand allegedly used as "human shields" by security forces

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While there has been much outraged commentary about the (despicable) Maoist act of using a dead body as an IED, there have been reports o...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

RIL is once again a darling of Dalal Street

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Dalal Street relies on RIL again, cites 4G, KG basin gas price revision. The KG basin gas price revision was recommended by the Rang...

India-Pakistan relations

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(I might be updating this post) Frontline has a review by A.G. Noorani about a 10 volume work on India-Pakistan relations by Avtar Sing...

Links

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Harold Laswell ( wikipedia entry) on The Theory of Political Propaganda "Propaganda is the manage- ment of collective attitudes by ...
Sunday, January 13, 2013

Officials hope that social and infrastructure spending is lower

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This is literally true. In an article upbeat on meeting the fiscal deficit target of 5.3%, there is a line saying that "Besides, o...
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Saturday, January 12, 2013

Links

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Plan for corporate India , by C P Chandrashekhar in Frontline Investment climate may improve moderately in FY 2013: Survey in ET Hawk...