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Editorial Issue 1 June 2007
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Letter to Editor Issue 1 June 2007
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Open Page Issue 1 June 2007
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Review Issue 1 June 2007
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The Mathesis of Intelligence
This essay reviews the statistical technique employed to construct the categories that flesh out summary measures of intelligence; and contests the claim that the technique elicits the meaning implicit in everyday uses of the word “intelligence”.
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The Elected Representatives and the Executive: the Widening Knowledge Gap
The elected representatives in local self-government find themselves overwhelmed by the executive today, especially because of the knowledge gap increasing between them. This may have far reaching consequences because it is not the executive but the representatives who are accountable to the electorate and those who are accountable are ill-equipped.
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FIIs, Hedge Funds and Information Asymmetry
This analytical piece examines the questions an FII fund manager is likely to ask before s/he decides to invest in the Indian stock-market.
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The Adulterous Woman in New Hindi Cinema
This essay looks at the motif of the adulterous/ murderous woman that flourishes in the new millennium in Hindi films like Jism, Aitraaz, Jurm and Zeher and tries to interpret it in the light of social and film history. What does Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, which looks at adultery less dramatically, really mean?
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Multicultural Fiction: Degrees of Disaffection
The essay traces the ‘multicultural’ sensibility in contemporary Western fiction through works by three writers who have different relationships with their home countries. Nadeem Aslam migrated from Pakistan to Britain when he was fifteen; Jhumpa Lahiri, with strong Bengali cultural links was brought up in the US and Zadie Smith is part white English and part Jamaican.
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Issues in Multiculturalism: Paradigms of Inequality
In the second of the articles on multiculturalism, the author looks at how images of ‘the other’ are routinely constructed in multicultural texts and what it reveals about who holds the power to construct images.
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Who is Dancing the Bhangra?
In this personal journey the author explains the nature of the hybridity overwhelming Bhangra today and attempts to recapture the experience of traveling through Bhangra hotspots at two Indian locations.
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Indian Poetry in English: a discussion
A Discussion between practicing writers who have published verse/ poetry about writing poetry in the English language, the experience, the rewards and the concerns.
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