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Greek Tragedy: Act II
Read more: Greek Tragedy: Act IIGreece is the birthplace of democracy, Olympic Games and now has created a cocktail of the two namely ‘games in democracy’. Pawan Gopalakrishnan and Anuradha Saha explore how the recent European Union episode offers an opportunity to contemplate on how to not be the next Greece. Greece’s high debt to GDP ratio was not its only problem…
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Examining the Economic Impact of Amending the Land Acquisition Act, 2013
Read more: Examining the Economic Impact of Amending the Land Acquisition Act, 2013Harsh Loonker analyses the economic consequences of the proposed amendment of the Land Acquisition Act. 2013 The government promulgated an ordinance in December 2014 whereby amending article 10(a) of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. The ordinance had the sole aim of fast tracking the acquisition…
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Reimagining India’s Role in the Thirty Meter Telescope Project
Read more: Reimagining India’s Role in the Thirty Meter Telescope ProjectKalyani Unkule talks about India’s participation in the controversial TMT Project in Hawaii which is facing protests on cultural and environmental grounds and proposes a rethink in light of India’s own rich culture of supporting heritage over moneyed development. Scientific research is becoming increasingly internationally collaborative in nature and several of the Government of India’s…
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Eurocentrism, Solidarity and the Migrant Crisis
Read more: Eurocentrism, Solidarity and the Migrant CrisisKalyani Unkule examines the delicacy of the European migrant crisis and asks for a revisit to the historical aspects of European migration to come to a feasible solution. It is easy to see why the large-scale in-flow of migrants to continental European shores is being described as a “crisis” when one considers that 1,700 lives…
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UK election 2015: The Outcome
Read more: UK election 2015: The OutcomeThe UK’s political system embodies the ideal type of republican democracy in many ways and the constitution – for something that was never put down on paper – has provided a remarkable degree of stability. However, keeping this in mind, Kalyani Unkule argues that the far reaching changes in society and polity that were in…
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China 2015: Resetting the Asian Growth Story?
Read more: China 2015: Resetting the Asian Growth Story?Regional multilateral forums are giving China a solid platform to assert its rising strength. Years of stellar economic performance has allowed Beijing to exert quite the influence in the Asia-Pacific region through these forums. Initiatives of development bank, regional security grouping, trade deals and economic strategies are announced and underlined in these forums. But as…
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India in Latin America: A Missing Story?
Read more: India in Latin America: A Missing Story?Exploring the weaknesses of India’s current relationship with Latin America, Deepanshu Mohan and Tridivesh Singh Maini identify opportunities that could prove mutually beneficial. They argue that improvements can only be achieved if India moves beyond multilateral instruments and seeks to develop relations with individual countries in Central and South America. Last month, Christine V. Gomes wrote a piece…
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The Union Budget: Investor Friendly but lacking Social Vision?
Read more: The Union Budget: Investor Friendly but lacking Social Vision?Deepanshu Mohan reviews India’s latest budget, presented on 28 February 2015. He argues that while the announcements signal the government is clearly working towards an investor friendly and globally competitive India, they lack vision in addressing more structural socio-economic concerns for the Indian grassroots. In a country that has nominally been socialist since independence, the budget is…
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The Beef Ban: An Irrational Decision with Economic Implications?
Read more: The Beef Ban: An Irrational Decision with Economic Implications?There are several questions that remain unanswered about the motives of this ban. In this article, Hrideja Shah aims at bringing out the economic implications of this law. The 20 year old bill, Maharashtra Anila Preservation (Amendment) Bill, 1995 was finally signed and approved by the President. The bill prohibits slaughter of oxen and bulls…
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Global Nationalism: An Analytical Challenge for International Relations
Read more: Global Nationalism: An Analytical Challenge for International RelationsIn 2014 the Scottish Referendum once again brought to light questions surrounding the logic of devolution of power and nature of federal relations; variations in voting behaviour across local, national and supranational elections; lessons for other secessionist movements; the nature of empire and anti-imperialist movements across space and time. But above all, Kalyani Unkule believes…
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Nigeria’s Economy Amidst the 2007 Financial Crisis
Read more: Nigeria’s Economy Amidst the 2007 Financial CrisisThis essay assesses the impact of the 2007 global financial crisis on Nigeria by closely analyzing the basic macroeconomic indicators such as inflation, government revenue, imports, exports etc. Through the study, P. Samuel Goweh aims to investigate the direct (financial transmission) and the indirect (transmission through real economy) impact of the crisis on Nigeria as…
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The Parivar in Power: India vs. Hindustan in 2015
Read more: The Parivar in Power: India vs. Hindustan in 2015Deepanshu Mohan considers how the influence of the RSS on the BJP has shaped the party’s actions in their first six months of power. He argues that there are worrying signs that Hindu nationalist agendas are being given priority over long-standing development issues that Modi promised to address in his election campaign. The role of…
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