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Tag Archives: Andaman & Nicobar Islands

the reconfiguration of the nicobars

January 31, 2015 · by m rajshekhar | tagged Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Tribals, Tsunami | Leave a comment

Ten years after the tsunami, life in India’s coral-fringed Nicobar Islands is settling into a new pattern. For the most part, it is an ugly one. In the tiny island of Car Nicobar—it has a perimeter of just 45 kms—even 12 year olds are getting drunk. “There was always some drinking,” comments Samir Acharya, a […]

revisiting the overloaded archipelago

January 10, 2015 · by m rajshekhar | tagged Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Cycling, Tribals, Tsunami | 1 Comment

for a while now, i have been trying to go on a cycle ride at the end of every year — have succeeded three out of four years. in 2014, biologist vidya athreya and i went to the andamans. and i came back and wrote this story about cycling up the islands. The friend is […]

another day in jarawa life

May 22, 2006 · by m rajshekhar | tagged Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Tribals | Leave a comment

Some days ago, I posted about the Jarawas. And I said that the local administration in the Andamans is venal, that its public stance about leaving the Jarawas alone is a lie, and that the tribals are in huge trouble. (readthis, this and this). Well, here is a story from the latest issue of “The Light of Andamans” […]

The Overloaded Archipelago

January 1, 2005 · by m rajshekhar | tagged Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Tribals, Tsunami | Leave a comment

note: in december 2004, while writing for businessworld, i sailed to the andamans to report on the acute water crises these islands in the bay of bengal faced every summer. things had reached a point where the administration, the largest employer in the isles, was granting mass leave to employees every summer, hoping they would […]

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Reviews

N Kalyan Raman (Scroll.in): “…strives for an understanding of the factors that enable governments and political parties to function in a way that is seemingly hostile to the interests of the very public they have been elected to serve, a gross anomaly in an electoral democracy.”

KRA Narasiah (The Hindu): “M. Rajshekhar’s deeply researched book… holds a mirror to Indian democracy, and finds several cracks.”

Rohit Chandra (Open): “…excels at connecting the local to the national.”

T Sundararaman (Seminar): ‘…refreshingly new writing on the play between India’s dysfunctional democracy and its development challenges…‘ (Fifth review on webpage)

Suhit Kelkar (Business Standard Weekend): “A patient mapping and thorough analysis of the Indian system’s horrific flaws…” (Image here)

G. Pramod (Malayala Manorama): “33 മാസം, 6 സംസ്ഥാനങ്ങൾ, 120 റിപ്പോർട്ടുകൾ: ജനാധിപത്യം തേടി മഹത്തായ ഇന്ത്യൻ യാത്ര… (33 months, 6 states, 120 reports: Great Indian journey in search of democracy…”

Mohammad Sajjad (www.qindeelonline.com): “Hindustan ki maujooda siyasi wa maaashi soorat e hal”

Sandeep Dikshit (The Tribune): “What emerges is the image of a state that is extractive, dominant, casteist and clientelist.”

Manas Chakravarty (www.moneycontrol.com): “…reporting at its best. The picture that emerges is of a democracy that has been hijacked by vested interests, interested only in power and pelf.“

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28 March: Paalam Books, Salem, Tamil Nadu.

19 March: The News Minute, “Citizens, the State, and the idea of India”

6 March: Pen@Prithvi, with Suhit Kelkar

20 February: A discussion between scholars Usha Ramanathan, Tridip Suhrud, MS Sriram and me to formally launch Despite the State

6 February: DogEars Bookshop, Margoa

5 February: The Polis Project, Dispatches with Suchitra Vijayan

30 January: Founding Fuel, “Systems Thinking, State Capacity and Grassroots Development”

25 January: Miranda House Literary Society

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