Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar, just Srikant as he preferred to be called, the Maharaja of Mysore is no more. A man born 6 years after independence and the loss of his Kingdom to the Union of India, was hugely respected and revered in the old Mysore State, even though he never ruled the State of Mysore /Karnataka. Why ? What did he do to earn the adulation of the masses? Why was he revered at a time when the so called Modern school of thought derided royalty and everything royal ( excep...

An intersting articles in PLoS Biology mirrored on eSS:http://www.esocialsciences.org/Articles/showArticle.aspx?acat=Recent+Articles&aid=4638 It discusses interesting features of the open access phenomenon and the author commends authors who publish in open access journals. But most of these open access journals are in fact open for publication only to authors who can pay. That is, once the paper is accepted for publication the author has to pay a fee---and for us in India and other such coun...

A recent ICRIER policy paper by Arpita Mukherjee, Divya Satija, Tanu M Goyal, Murali K Mantrala, Shaoming Zouof current interest: Impact of the Retail FDI Policy on Indian Consumers and the Way Forward analyses the impact of the retail FDI policy on Indian consumers and makes policy recommendations for the Indian government. http://www.esocialsciences.org/Articles/showArticle.aspx?acat=Recent+Articles&aid=4603 Also see the two student papers on the impact of malls: http://www.esocialsciences.o...

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While exploring tools for creating for online surveys, I came across Bloeme Bergmann who is an MA student at Leiden University in the Netherlands. As part of herMaster's degree in English Language and Culture, specialisation English Language Acquisition, she is working to research language shift among the Konkani-speaking population in Goa. And she is using ThesisTools an online service. "My research aims to find out whether the young generations still speak fluent Konkani, whether t...

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I conduct a writing programme at an undergrad hours course in a local college. The students are new to social sciences and have little exposure to research or social science writing. We set them to undertake small research-based investigations on a number of local issues viz., how malls affect local small stores; the pattern of use of mobile phones among students; the changing profiles of food vendors and cafes around the institutional, markets for bottled water and its economics, and so on....