Issue 11

How accurate is New Bollywood with Military Films?

As long as there are no solid social reforms to unify varied mindsets of a diverse nation, the notion of what defines good military films will continue to be debated

Bollywood dialogue comes of age

Bollywood dialogue is emerging from its hangover of being flowery. Filmmakers are setting up socio-cultural context using specific dialects

Fractured Land, Fissured Ballot

Farmers, whose votes aren’t driven by rural distress alone, remain divided by caste and class and have failed to turn their concerns into drivers of political behaviour

Where is the new crop of Indian farmer leaders?

The crisis in Indian agriculture is unlikely to subside soon. Leaders must prepare farmers for climate change. Agitation alone can't drive farmer politics.

Flavour of poll season in UP is gaushalas

Poll violence does not really shock anyone in Bengal

Welfarism is the primary weapon of the Congress

The Congress has always been Hindu in its personality, signifying elite upper-caste interests but pulling in lower castes because of its policy of patronage

A quarter century of Chamling is on test in Sikkim

Chamling is 68 and has been the uncrowned king of this erstwhile Himalayan kingdom since 1994

National basic minimum income scheme is an act of desperation by the Congress

It is quite bizarre that a party that boasts of a number of intellectual economists is coming up with a completely messed up income programme as this

National basic minimum income is more relevant now than ever before

A well-designed national basic income scheme in the form of direct cash transfers could reduce the structural inefficiencies associated with these schemes