In his age group, Vineet Kohli was surely one of the finest heterodox economists in India. With deep interests in structuralist and post-Keynesian macroeconomics, he researched the linkages between...
Obituary
A historian who straddled the intellectual scene of 20th century social sciences, Eric Hobsbawm leaves behind a rich, layered and also contested legacy. A member of the path-breaking British...
An assessment of Hobsbawm based on the contexts and contradictions which marked his life and work. Using insights from his autobiography, Interesting Times, this tribute attempts to understand his...
Eric Hobsbawm was a pioneer in introducing new methods and perspectives in the historian's craft and breaking the bounds of the discipline. His intellectual contributions to our understanding of the...
This short reflection highlights Hobsbawm's influences outside the Marxist tradition and speaks about the shared concerns and divergences with the author.
Gopalakrishna Kumar A Vaidyanathan BHASKAR GOPALAKRISHNA KUMAR, a brilliant young economist, was deprived of the great promise and potential he had displayed when his incredibly courageous but one-...
H K Paranjape: In Remembrance HARIBHAU PARANJAPE had been ailing for some time. In a letter he wrote on September 29 last he had dwelt, matter- of-fact ly, on the possibility of his surcease in the...
A Versatile Economist Deb Kumar Bose Ashok Rudra, who passed away in Santiniketan this week, had an unusual talent for locating critical gaps in the methodology of statistics as applied to economics...
Population Control: Simplistic Approach EPW's first piece on family welfare after the 1991 Census (integrating Family Welfare and Development Programmes' by T Padmanabha, January 18) has an ominous...
D T Lakdawala J C Sandesara BORN in Surat in 1916, Dhansukhlal Iblsidas Lakdawala passed away at about mid-night or April 15, following a massive heart attack, while travelling by train from...
religious harmony, quoted a government order instructing public servants to ensure that no discrimination on religious grounds should take place. He failed to add that, such orders arc being...
November 15, 1986 R K Hazari R K HAZARI, editor of Economic and Political Weekly from September 1967 to November 1969, died of a heart attack in Bombay on November 8. He was 54 and is survived by...
