13 articles in this issue
A Prasad, Jyotsna Yagnik, Binod C. Agarwal
Concept Note:The debate on the death penalty in India has gathered more steam following the 262nd report of the Law Commission that came out in August 2015. It concludes that the death penalty should eventually be abolished in India except in cases of ter... see more
S.D. Muni
For the past decade or so, questions related to equity have been front loaded on the global agenda of economic growth and development. Equity has an umbilical but extremely uneasy relationship with growth. It is almost meaningless to talk of equity if the... see more
Uddipan Mukherjee
In October 2015, in one of the most talked about legislative polls in the eastern Indian province of Bihar, an estimated 55 per cent of the electorate cast their votes in 32 constituencies across the six Maoist-affected districts. The entire elections pas... see more
Pradeep Mallick
IntroductionAmid a pat for marching towards the measurable “Education for All” goals, the chastisement that India has the world’s largest illiterate population and that the poverty-stricken women in India will take 65 years to attain literacy should make ... see more
Gurmeet Kanwal
New Threat in West AsiaIn the second week of November 2015, militants from Abu Bakr AlBaghdadi’s self-proclaimed Islamic Caliphate – also called ISIS, ISIL and Daesh – struck multiple targets in Beirut, Paris and Mali. Earlier, on 31 October, ISIS claimed... see more
Sanjay Kumar Pradhan
Since its independence in 2011, the South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit (Salva Kiir) has been striving for reconciliation with various ethnic, tribal, armed groups and communities in the country. As part of his efforts for the country’s political... see more
Narottam Gaan
The significance of information and communication technology (ICT) has been widely felt not only within a state but also among and between the states in their multifarious day-to-day interactions. Information and communication technology can be rightly sa... see more
Arun Vishwanathan
IntroductionSince the end of the Cold War, there has been a renewed attempt on part of strategic analysts to see whether nuclear proliferation has a future.1 A theoretical debate on how nuclear proliferation can be explained is also underway. Those engage... see more
Shalendra D. Sharma
French economist Thomas Piketty’s bestseller, Capital in the TwentyFirst Century, provocatively claims that the widening income inequalities in the advanced economies (indeed, widening income inequality worldwide), is fundamentally rooted in the exigencie... see more
Aruna Kumar Malik
The book under review examines the evolution of the Naxalite Movement in India from pre-organisational in the first decade of its existence to the current stage of the CPI (Maoist) as an organised movement that has been described by the former Indian Prim... see more
Jasmine J. Pereira
Hate crime refers to those crimes in society that have been stimulated by prejudice for a certain social group, ethnicity, religion, language or gender identity, etc. Hate crime is now prevalent across the world and has a remarkable impact not only on the... see more
Shubhang D. Parekh
The book under review by the famous geopolitical analyst Robert D Kaplan focuses on the aspects and territorial disputes in the South China Sea with a cultural and strategic narration. Kaplan starts with the “geopolitical study of the South China Sea with... see more
Nihar Ranjan Pradhan
This is an engaging piece of work which takes an innovative approach on Chinese expert discourse on Central Asia – analysing how Chinese define Central Asia. At the same time the author offers an inside perspective on Chinese voices whose meanings are rar... see more