Articles by MSS Pandian

The dissent note by a member of a government appointed committee reviewing textbooks of political science avers that the pedagogic intent and methods of the NCERT textbooks are sound and they encourage critical dialogue among learners. 

Cambridge School, Identity Politics and Dravidian Movement(s) MSS Pandian Cambridge historiography has claimed that politics in India is constituted by factions formed vertically through patron- client nexuses and are motivated by narrow economic and short-term power interests. It conflates the biography of the coercive colonial state and its Indian elite collaborators as the history of colonial India, In this article the author develops a critique of the Cambridge school by expanding the gamut of the political so as to include the mobilisation of alternative public spaces by the subalterns of the dravidian movement.

Of Maltova Mothers and Other Stories MSS Pandian Anandhi S A R Venkatachalapathy Another element in his [Periyar's] rationalist message was his campaign against the oppression of women. He championed the causes of widow- remarriage, of marriages based on consent, and of women's right to divorce, to property and abortion. Pointing out that there was no Tamil word for the male counterpart of an adulteress he fumed: "the word adulteress implies man's con- cept of women as a slave, a commodity to be sold and to be hired". Periyar's demand at a conference two years ago, that no odium should be attached to a woman who desired a man other than her husband (which the Press so avidly vulgarised) as well as Periyar's advocacy of the abolition of marriage as the only way of Treeing women from enslavement, were about as radical as the views of any women's liberationist.-Passing of the January 12, 1974.

domestic computer applications will enjoy the least priority, with all available manpower being devoted to the export effort.
In this context, the liberalised import 'stock and sale' policy would only widen the gulf between domestic software requirements and the capabilities of the local industry. The DoE annual report mentions that four firms were licensed last year for stock and sale of standard software package from abroad. The easy availability of proven software from abroad would virtually eliminate whatever little incentive Indian companies had to venture into the high-value addition categories of standard software. The contribution of the domestic software industry would be confined to those interstices of the market, where software from abroad cannot penetrate.

Bad Capitalists, Good Private Sector Politics of Tax Raids MSS Pandian THE present government at the Centre has been encouraging the private sector with reductions in tax rates, abolition of various controls and many other concessions under its so-called economic liberalisation drive. This package of policy measures has understandably endeared the Union government to the private sector, especially the big business.