Delhi polls to test Modi policy and AAP promises

Significance Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won only three seats and the Congress none. The results end the run of three successive state election victories for the BJP, raising doubts about the appeal of Modi's 'pro-business' reform agenda. They also raise questions over whether an AAP government is up to the challenge of promoting inclusive development for Delhi's 20 million inhabitants. Impacts Full statehood for Delhi would help local authorities meet the city's economic needs, but the central government is unlikely to agree. Modi's government will come under pressure to replace reform rhetoric with concrete policies. Bihar will prove the next most important political test for the BJP's hope for one-party dominance.

State Terrorism, Clandestine Language: Notes on the Argentine Military Dictatorship

Today the argentine judiciary dispenses ritual punishment as it condemns the oppressors of the last military dictatorship (1976–83) in the name of historical truth. Human rights organizations and movements have contributed immeasurably to this end. More than two decades have passed since the historic military-juntas trial (1985), and over the years successive state policies have proved that traumatic memory is a contested site, subject in this postdictatorial democracy to both debate and governmental intervention.