[Economic and Political Weekly newsletter] Content Alert for August 17 2019

Content Alert for August 17 2019

CONTENTS Vol. 54, Issue No 33, August 17, 2019 Editorials In Deep Waters Crisis in the Automobile Industry From the Editor's Desk Problems in Thinking about Politics —Gopal Guru   Previous Editorials  From 50 Years Ago From 50 Years Ago: Unfinished Succession  Commentary NDA’s Big Victory in Bihar —Mohammad Sanjeer Alam, Rakesh Ranjan The Enigma of the 2019 Parliamentary Elections in Telangana —H Vageeshan, Ramya Chitrapu Election Results in Odisha - Welfarism versus Hindutva —Hilal Ahmed, Gyanranjan Swain A Big Pay-off for BJP’s Aggressive Campaign in Jharkhand —Harishwar Dayal An Outlier in the North - Success of the Congress in Punjab —Jagrup Singh Sekhon, Ashutosh Kumar  Budget 2019-20 Road Map for Structural Reforms in Budget 2019 - A Reality Check —M Govinda Rao Betting on Animal Spirits - Budget 2019 in a Neo-liberal Bind —C P Chandrasekhar Much Ado About Nothing - Financial Sector in the 2019 Union Budget —Partha Ray Putting the Cart before the Horse - Agri-food in the Union Budget 2019–20 —Ashok Gulati Growth, Employment and Labour through a Budget Lens —K P Kannan Social Sector in the 2019 Union Budget —S Mahendra Dev Vision for Industrial Growth in Budget 2019–20 —M Suresh Babu  Book Reviews A Post-Keynesian Approach to Understanding the Black Economy —Alex M Thomas Macroeconomics of the Black Economy by Saumen Chattopadhyay Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2018; pp xx + 276, `795. Substantiated Storytelling —Kavitha Iyer Poverty Matters: Covering Deprivation in India by K Nagaraj (based on lectures)/Nalini Rajan (ed), Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2017; pp x + 172, price not indicated. Perspectives Can India Raise Its GDP Per Capita to $5,000 by 2030? —Jayanta Kumar Mallik  Special Articles Census Towns in Uttar Pradesh - Understanding the Transformation of Rural Economy into Urban Economy —Prem Kumar  Current Statistics Current Statistics  Postscript Social Protest in Kaala - Towards Ambedkarite Social Justice —Ananya Seeing Yourself in Fiction —Michelle D’costa Nanak’s Sindhi Followers - Seeking Access to Kartarpur Sahib —Gope Ahuja Last Lines  Letters Response to the ‘Practitioner’s Perspective’ —Neha Bhadbhade, Sarita Bhagat, K J Joy, Abraham Samuel, Kiran Lohakare, and Raju Adagale Regulating App-based Taxis —Chaitra V	An Outlier in the North The most signifi cant development of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Punjab was the victory of the Congress, making the state an outlier in almost all of India, except for Kerala. — Jagrup Singh Sekhon, Ashutosh Kumar Welfarism versus Hindutva The 2019 elections in Odisha present a unique case where Narendra Modi becomes the most acceptable face as Prime Minister, but the Biju Janata Dal gets an upper hand in vote shares and seats. — Hilal Ahmed, Gyanranjan Swain Parliamentary Elections in Telangana An assessment of the fi rst Lok Sabha election results after the formal creation of Telangana — H Vageeshan, Ramya Chitrapu NDA’s Big Victory in Bihar The National Democratic Alliance registered its best ever performance in Bihar in the Lok Sabha elections 2019. — Mohammad Sanjeer Alam, Rakesh Ranjan BJP’s Aggressive Campaign in Jharkhand The success of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Jharkhand was enabled by the popularity of its prime ministerial candidate and being perceived as the saviour of the nation. — Harishwar Dayal Can India Raise Its GDP Per Capita to $5,000 by 2030? If policies are pursued to facilitate business activity, and better methods are used to measure it, India can raise its gross domestic product per capita to $5,000 by 2030 (from $1,965 in 2017). — Jayanta Kumar Mallik Census Towns in Uttar Pradesh 122 Census towns in selected districts of Uttar Pradesh have been analysed to comprehend the trends and patterns of urbanisation resulting from the transformation of rural areas into urban settlements. — Prem Kumar Budget 2019–20 A set of seven articles provides a critical commentary on the budget proposals and vision for the economy’s growth. Road Map for Structural Reforms There were great expectations of fast-tracking reforms in the budget, but it disappoints in setting a road map. — M Govinda Rao Betting on Animal Spirits Budget 2019–20 is more concerned with getting private fi nance for investment, rather than with fi nancing much needed state action to address slowing growth and welfare shortfalls. — C P Chandrasekhar Much Ado About Nothing The announcements for the fi nancial sector are either too little or too grandiose, relative to the actual requirements of the sector. — Partha Ray Putting the Cart before the Horse The 2019 Union Budget has neither proposed any bold policy moves, nor any big allocations for investments in the agri-food sector. — Ashok Gulati Vision for Industrial Growth 36 The budget’s vision for the growth of the manufacturing sector has been clouded by some illusions. — M Suresh Babu Growth, Employment and Labour Despite the rhetoric in the budget speech of the fi nance minister, the larger picture emerging from the recent data is a slowdown in growth and a net decline in employment. — K P Kannan Social Sector in the 2019 Union Budget The 2019 Union Budget has touched on all the components of the social sector in bits and pieces, but the overall framework for the sector is not clear. — S Mahendra Dev Postscript Ananya reads social protest in Kaala with Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Literature; Michelle D’costa on fi nding characters in fi ction she can relate to; Gope Ahuja on the Sindhis’ access to the Kartarpur Sahib corridor; and Last Lines by Ponnappa.
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