Economic & Political Weekly VOL45 No. 43 October23-29, 2010 Read/Download

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EDITORIALS
‘Modern’ Sahukars
The institution of the sahukar has been thriving in its modern avatar – as for-profit microfinance.

COMMENTARY
Microfinance: A Fairy Tale Turns into a Nightmare
M S Sriram
It was inevitable that the commercial model of microfinance in India, with its minimalist and standardised model of lending, would grow into a bubble and run into trouble

SPECIAL ARTICLES
‘Who’s Next?’ Nuclear Ambivalence and the Contradictions of Non-Proliferation Policy
Itty Abraham
This paper argues that the limit of conventional non-proliferation policy analysis is marked by the inability to come to terms with the ambivalence of nuclear power

COMMENTARY
The Inter-Academy Report on Genetically Engineered Crops: Is It Making a Farce of Science?
Sujatha Byravan
The leading academies of science in India have, at the request of the government, prepared a report that was expected to give an independent scientific review of transgenic crops and the proposed Biotechnology Regulatory Bill

Accessing Injustice: The Gram Nyayalayas Act, 2008
Menaka Guruswamy , Aditya Singh
The Gram Nyayalayas Act, 2008 moves Indian citizens with small claims, who live in rural areas, out of the adversarial system with its procedural guarantees

PERSPECTIVES
Inequities in Health, Agrarian Distress and a Policy of Avoidance
Meeta , Rajivlochan
The absence of first level healthcare facilities and the high cost of treating even routine illnesses are the immediate problems in the existing healthcare system as also the fact that high costs do not necessarily imply reliability of treatment

MONEY MARKET
Coming to Terms with Inflation
EPW Research Foundation
Given the widespread public and government concerns about inflation, now is an appropriate time to address some issues pertaining to its measurement, inflationary expectations, outcomes and the priorities for action

EDITORIALS
A Structural Malaise
Money power has torn apart the formal political institutions in Karnataka.

COMMENTARY
S R Sankaran: In Memoriam
E A S Sarma
S R Sankaran, the retired IAS officer, who died on 7 October was an extraordinary person who directly touched the lives of perhaps tens of thousands of people

DISCUSSION
Fire in Satire, Evasion as Opposition
Bhupendra Yadav

BOOK REVIEWS
Documenting the Colonial Archives on the Freedom Movement
Biswamoy Pati
Towards Freedom: Documents on the Movement for Independence in India – 1939, Part 1 and Part 2 edited by Mushirul Hasan (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2008; pp xxii + 980, Rs 3,950 and pp xxvii +1978, Rs 3,950, respectively

Interactions in the Indian Ocean
Robert Nichols
Cross Currents and Community Networks: The History of the Indian Ocean World edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray and Edward A Alpers (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2007; pp xvi + 311, Rs 650.