Aug
26
2022
Should there be limits on 'freebies'?
By Reetika Khera
As someone rightly put, life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it, says a lot about our state of mind. So even in times of stress and anxiety, you can take proactive steps to lift your mood. Here are some excerpts from our conversation with Professor Kamlesh Singh from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-Delhi, about how to stay happy in troubling times
In recent years in India, minimum support price (MSP) and government procurement, especially of paddy and wheat, have been discussed widely, but these discussions have often drawn on evidence that is dated and incomplete. Consequently, such discussions have clouded the facts, resulting in a large number of factoids.
A comment on Arvind Elangovan’s book Norms & Politics: Sir Benegal Narsing Rau in the Making of the Indian Constitution, 1935-50, part of a round-table discussion of the book organised by the blog Law and Other Things
Virginia Eubanks’ widely acclaimed book, Automating Inequality, alerted us to the ways that automated decision-making tools exacerbated inequalities, especially by raising the barrier for people to receive services they are entitled to. The novel coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the use of digital technologies in India, even for essential services such as health and education, where access to them might be poor.
This is a review of Wrongs and Crimes by Victor Tadros. Published in Law and Philosophy, May 2021
A review of 'Art Attacks' by Malvika Maheshwari (OUP, 2019), published in Contributions to Indian Sociology (54:3, 2020)